district
/ˈdɪstɹɪkt/ noun B1- An administrative division of an area. · Soho is a district of London
- An area or region marked by some distinguishing feature. · the Lake District in Cumbria
- A specific, usually named area of the coalface where particular seams are worked.
Plural districts
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Villefort met them at the door of his study; having in a few words thanked the district doctor, he turned to d’Avrigny, and said:
“The nearest,” said the district doctor, “is a good Italian abbé, who lives next door to you.
Before daybreak he would awake, leave the inn after rigorously paying his bill, and reaching the forest, he would, under pretence of making studies in painting, test the hospitality of some peasants, procure himself the dress of a woodcutter and a hatchet, casting off the lion’s skin to assume that of the woodman; then, with his hands covered with dirt, his hair darkened by means of a leaden comb, his complexion embrowned with a preparation for which one of his old comrades had given him the recipe, he intended, by following the wooded districts, to reach the nearest frontier, walking by night and sleeping in the day in the forests and quarries, and only entering inhabited regions to buy a loaf from time to time.
At daybreak, the telegraphs were set at work in all directions, and almost immediately the authorities in every district had exerted their utmost endeavors to arrest the murderer of Caderousse.
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