| 1. | He asked in a suspicious provincial accen. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 2. | He assumed a thick, provincial accent and said in a tone of comman. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 3. | For unless you own the whale, you are but a provincial and sentimentalist in Truth. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 4. | of the religious and who was made provincial here. - from Doctrina Christiana by Anonymous |
| 5. | "I ought to own that I don't very well understand the drift of the provincial elections," said Levin. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 6. | he was elected provincial of his order, and in Jun. - from Doctrina Christiana by Anonymous |
| 7. | He was named prior of Manila in , and provincial vicar i. - from Doctrina Christiana by Anonymous |
| 8. | Worse quarters than Defarge's wine-shop, could easily have been found in Paris for a provincial slave of that degree. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 9. | But those old-fashioned methods of paternal family arrangements in the management of provincial affairs must be broken down.. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 10. | But clear Truth is a thing for salamander giants only to encounter how small the chances for the provincials then What befell the weakling youth lifting the dread goddess's veil at Lai. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |