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It is a great enormity, of which gentlemen trustees on the highways are sometimes guilty, in adopting the breadth necessary for an avenue to the metropolis, where all that is required is an access to some sequestered and unpopulous district.

Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

Britain is altogether small, the mere taproot of her extended empire: Scotland, again, which alone the Scottish boy adopts in his imagination, is but a little part of that, and avowedly cold, sterile and unpopulous.

Memories and Portraits 2005

Trust me, when Targé has run out of Albemarles, and it will soon, then Greene, Madison, Louisa, Orange (maybe not the rest, as they are so unpopulous) are next on the list.

Albemarle Approves Hollymead Town Center at cvillenews.com 2003

It was a young man, whose heart was solitary, because he had existed always amid objects of futurity, and whose imagination too was unpopulous, because those objects of hope to which his habitual wishes had transferred, and as it were 'projected', his existence, were all familiar and long-established objects!

The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 James Gillman

Gaul had been a poor province, sterile and unpopulous, like many a

Characters and events of Roman History Guglielmo Ferrero 1906

Montgomery, observing the unpopulous Hoosier landscape with a shrewd eye, had, in the year of grace 1829, opened a general store on the exact spot now occupied by Montgomery's Bank, and the proper authorities a few years later called the name of the place Montgomery, which it remains to this day.

Otherwise Phyllis Meredith Nicholson 1906

Three days later he wandered alone in Paris, came at last to old stone steps leading down to the river, in an unpopulous quarter.

Foes Mary Johnston 1903

But, whilst on the outside of her walls Klosterheim beheld even this unpopulous region all alive with military license and outrage, she suffered no violence from either party herself.

Memorials and Other Papers — Complete Thomas De Quincey 1822

No public road lay in that direction; nor, in so unpopulous a region, could it be imagined that travellers were likely at that time to be abroad.

Memorials and Other Papers — Complete Thomas De Quincey 1822

But, whilst on the outside of her walls Klosterheim beheld even this unpopulous region all alive with military license and outrage, she suffered no violence from either party herself.

Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822