Sentence examples for own countryside from inspiring English sources

For it was my own countryside, and I loved it with an intimate feeling, though all its associations were crude and incoherent.

Our lads were far more familiar with the shell-pocked fields of France and Belgium than the rural delights of their own countryside.

When China so often seems indifferent to the rape of its own countryside or to working conditions in factories and mines at home, there may be no reason to expect it to foster better conditions abroad.

Then suddenly the whole of the French media turned up.' The interest was in part the result of a very French fascination, often mixed with fear and miscomprehension, with their own countryside.

Behind the veneer of rolling pastures and timeless villages of honeyed Cotswold limestone, and shimmering Cumbrian green slate or harsher Cornish granite, the people who service the rural economy – farm workers, hotel staff, teachers, health visitors, the self-employed – often can't afford to live in their own countryside.

Guðrún remarried, this time to Thorkell Eyjolffsson, who became a great chieftain in his own countryside and took over the running of the household at Helgafell.

In my neck of the woods, the people who attended the march were largely those who own the countryside, or run it, together with a forelock-tugging menagerie of their better-paid servants.

I adore Watership Down, which makes a high-stakes wilderness of our own backyards and countryside.

Hill spends a lot of her time, as she always did, taking walks on her own in the countryside.

It is easy to imagine him stomping off on his own into the countryside as a boy.

Is it deliberate that it's a precise and equal blend of their own upbringings: his countryside idyll, her city retreat?