Peasants from the nearby countryside manned barricades, sealing off all roads to the city.
Even in the countryside, where men's families pay bride prices, inflation is rampant.
Although Confederate guerrillas, whom the Yankees called "bushwhackers," roamed the countryside, the men of the 19th Michigan enjoyed being detailed to the railroad work parties because they could forage for food.
And a mood of sober concentration extends beyond the home to the countryside, there men and women work the fields but also take time to chat in the shade, nap on the grass and buy and sell in the village market.
The fighting that rages in the countryside, where men with mud-smeared faces and makeshift weapons are hunting down people of other ethnicities, seems as foreign to many of these white-collar Kenyans as it might to people living thousands of miles away.
In the Turkish countryside, a man comes forward and confesses to a murder but struggles to lead them to the body.
Activists reached by telephone in the Aleppo area said the pair's vehicle had been waylaid in the countryside by armed men who shot their driver.
Clooney's is a much more leisurely, ambulatory affair, trawling the French countryside, where his men engage in a series of detachable comic vignettes against a series of backdrops seemingly left over from Saving Private Ryan – Matt Damon speaks French badly!
(Heginbotham did not include the movie, which is a swiftly moving montage of Parisian streets, inflatable dolls, disembodied boxing gloves, a rooftop chess game, matches burning on a man's head, a short-skirted female dancer filmed from below, a funeral, and a camel-driven hearse's mad dash into the countryside, chased by men and women loping in slow motion).
Driving around the French countryside gives a man time to think.
