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Recent Examples of townswomanAs the backstory evolved, Calico townswoman Sarah Marshall transformed into the Green Witch on the gallows, turned her accusing neighbors into monsters with a wicked curse and vanished in a puff of smoke with a cackling laugh.—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 17 Sep. 2025 One townswoman Wise befriended at work met her in a bathroom with a change of clothes and the ID badge of another woman who was out sick.—Desiree Stennett, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Oct. 2022 The other is the drowning, under possibly suspicious circumstances, of a much-loved young townswoman, Ariel.—Ellen Akins Washington Post, Star Tribune, 22 Feb. 2021
These were probably composed by Sebastian Lotzer, a townsman and furrier, on the basis of hundreds of complaints that different groups of peasants had been formulating for weeks beforehand.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Sep. 2025
One cut scene, Good recalls, featured a townsman sacrificing himself with a homemade net bomb.
The government’s unpopularity in the rural areas and propensity for violence against villagers has opened the door for JNIM to cast itself as a more effective protector.
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Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
10 May 2026
For example, in 2022, some villagers were arrested and spent 40 days in jail before being released.
Like the yeoman boys are out in the barn, half-naked, working out, buffing up and wearing animal heads and preparing for some kind of an inchoate battle with the burghers.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Nov. 2025
These works, painted by artists such as Rembrandt van Rijn, Ferdinand Bol, and Bartholomeus van der Helst, depict the powerful merchant-burghers who shaped the political and social fabric of Golden Age Amsterdam.
Locations like Tarifa, Cádiz and inland hill towns offer expansive views and long totality, though with the likelihood of heavy crowds.
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Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
10 May 2026
The legislature has also put in place more requirements for towns to have fair rent commissions, which are local bodies that have the ability to respond to complaints and regulate rents.
The audience is thrust into 1944 Hartford with townsfolk excited about how the circus is coming to town.
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Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
27 Apr. 2026
Just as the various townsfolk characters are clearly modeled on those that trod the musical boards back in Broadway‘s Golden Age, so too does the score owe its debts.