Sentence examples for nice village from inspiring English sources

"Still, it's difficult to know if a nice pub maintains its village or, ultimately, if a nice village maintains its pub," said Mr. Jackson, who recently spent a week in the area with his wife, Shirley, to inspect properties.

The books transported those children up magical faraway trees, or just to a nice village life, with a post office and a picnic basket and an innocent problem to solve involving a "dirty tinker".

I've always lived nearby, but last year a house came up in Pilton and we were keen to buy it because it's a really nice village and we thought, 'Hey, we'll get the free festival tickets!' "To be honest, when I used to come as a teenager you wouldn't have wanted to live in Pilton.

He retains house, cash and Bernard the chauffeur and, when things have fizzled out between him and Phil, sets about creating a second heterosexual family; Lizzie, meanwhile, finds herself swept off to a not especially nice village in rural Leicestershire ("Jesus fucking wept," mutters Mrs Vogel, as they drive in for the first time), where the newcomers are regarded with extreme suspicion.

"We're not against houses, just dumping them on a nice village and turning it into a concrete jungle," he added.

This context is probably only necessary for "outsiders", but North London's Stoke Newington is notorious in the city for being a weirdly nice village full of ageing hippies, muesli-munching power-mums and liberal dads who dress like kid's TV presenters.

The town's hinterland has some nice villages, such as Appleton, Winwick or Lymm, for fast escapes on the motorways.

The A67 leads to Torrelavega and the road to Santillana del Mar, described as "the nicest village in Spain" by the narrator of Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea.

Bamburgh is prime, Beadnell is a nice harbour village and Seahouses is a busy working harbour.

"Here there is a nice Palestinian village, with agricultural lands and access to them, and suddenly they have nothing".

Estates is an odd, obsessive book, and at times I felt like urging Hanley to give herself a break and move to a nice little village somewhere.