` I met a "towny," and he stood me too good a dinner, 'I explained. From Wordnik.com. [The Spike] Reference
But to revert to less "towny" and much more interesting matters passing on board. From Wordnik.com. [A Boy's Voyage Round the World] Reference
This made her think that the elder man was a "towny," and not a frontiersman like the other. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation] Reference
He contented himself with a mild expression of his surprise at the conduct of the Sydney authorities in putting a "towny" over his head without so much as a word of notice. From Wordnik.com. [Stingaree] Reference
Maria del Carmen, who was a bit towny, did not take it well. From Wordnik.com. [The Plumed Serpent] Reference
It may be towny, but this is Wisconsin and that is how we like it. From Wordnik.com. ["I feel like you're describing, you know, it could be Green Bay in Wisconsin."] Reference
It just made the tap water I mixed it in taste a little more small-towny. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
Sarah Palin gets a big "You Go-girl," with Republicans in tow lovin 'the new urban-towny lingo style. From Wordnik.com. [Yvonne R. Davis: Sarah Palin: America's Affirmative Action Candidate] Reference
It DOES seem like the perfect place -- they generally love their local stores and keeping things small-towny-yet-glamorously-hip. From Wordnik.com. [Link-Mad Monday: Cool stuff from the internet] Reference
One felt very chic and towny by comparison; and as the two of them moved to join the tail of the crowd at the gates, she saw to it that the skirts of the coat swayed becomingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Coat] Reference
Sureal discussion on farming today, the early commedy spot, where discussion between randomly selected towny beeboid and talking head , on fishstocks, manages to avoid mentioning EU fisheries policy. From Wordnik.com. [Open Thread] Reference
Tate Street is a wonderful little college-towny strip of businesses right next to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (the campus of which has gotten a lot fancier since I went there 10 years ago). From Wordnik.com. [inkblurt · Candid Caption?] Reference
Putting on a proper old grumpy face to prove this is a little more than just another reality TV show, Jimmy Doherty fronts a series in which nine towny couples compete for the chance to run a 25-acre Suffolk farm. From Wordnik.com. [Tonight's TV highlights: A Farmer's Life For Me | Do We Really Need The Moon? | How TV Ruined Your Life | Boardwalk Empire | World's Youngest Daredevils | Secret Diary Of A Call Girl] Reference
Here the towns are towns, but they are not "towny.". From Wordnik.com. [A New Canadian's Impressions of Britain] Reference
"I met a 'towny,' and he stood me too good a dinner," I explained. From Wordnik.com. [The People of the Abyss] Reference
I ain't up to towny ways nohow, and I allow that mebbe I'm rather green. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Redwoods] Reference
How splendid and brown and fit he looked, compared with those two pale, towny creatures!. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond] Reference
Father put it into my head, making me look at the little, towny people in Transham this afternoon. From Wordnik.com. [The Freelands] Reference
And this essential towny commonness was not confined to the classes from which these youths were drawn. From Wordnik.com. [The Freelands] Reference
She -- SHE who would be the laughing-stock of them all -- she had thought him a "locater," a "towny" from 'Frisco!. From Wordnik.com. [Openings in the Old Trail] Reference
"It's dreadfully tabby and small-towny," thought Carol, while she soothed, "I don't believe it quite goes with me.". From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
That defendant, a 'watchman in the towny took plaintiff travelling in the night, according to the fbitute, Upp, 208. From Wordnik.com. [A complete system of pleading: comprehending the most approved precedents and forms of practice; chiefly consisting of such as have never before been printed: with an index to the principal work, incorporating and making it a continuation of Townshend's and Cornwall's Tables, to the present time; as well as an index of reference to all the ancient and modern entries extant] Reference
People said England was becoming degenerate and hysterical, growing soft, and nervous, and towny, and all the rest of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Freelands] Reference
"I had a currency debate with a man be th 'name iv Joyce, a towny iv mine, in th' Audjiotoroom Hotel," said Mr. Hennessy. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War] Reference
Her companion was a fat, red - cheeked young girl in a towny costume, a straw hat decorated with bright flowers and ribbons, and a string of big coloured beads about her neck. From Wordnik.com. [A Traveller in Little Things] Reference
There was, of course, a towny foreground to it; and this it was, rather than the distant blue ranges, that held the gaze of Rose Pennycuick when she looked forth -- the back-yard of the villa next to their own. From Wordnik.com. [Sisters] Reference
For he was about the last person one would have thought of associating with fish-catching -- an exceedingly towny - looking person indeed, one who from his conversation appeared to know nothing outside of his business. From Wordnik.com. [A Traveller in Little Things] Reference
"And such a 'towny'!" echoed Tyler. From Wordnik.com. [Stingaree] Reference
Do you hate Brighton only, or every towny place? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Una Sackville] Reference
It’s even more small-towny when I blog about a dog and people say “I know her!”. From Wordnik.com. [Rooting for the Underdogs « knitnut.net] Reference
I’m also a towny living in Ruralshire and I have to confess that even for a towny I knew what the creatures were. From Wordnik.com. [Animal Rights « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
“It’s dreadfully tabby and small-towny,” thought Carol, while she soothed, “I don’t believe it quite goes with me.”. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
But Maria del Carmen was a bit towny. From Wordnik.com. [The Plumed Serpent] Reference
Am I faded and small-towny? ". From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
Am I faded and small-towny?”. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
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