Its meaning ought to be that every nation which wants to remain healthy and strong must take care that the obvious advantages of metropolitan life are balanced by the joys and gains of the villager who lacks the shop windows and the exciting turmoil.
"Psychology and Social Sanity"
Hugo Münsterberg
His food is of the simplest, and he gets a bed at a tea-house for a halfpenny, or he lodges with a villager who offers him hospitality.
"Peeps at Many Lands: Japan"
John Finnemore
I hope long ere this, Fritz, the good son and industrious villager, is the owner of the goodly farm, and the happy husband of the pretty Sennerin.
"Tales of the Toys, Told by Themselves"
Frances Freeling Broderip