The Irish physician is often exposed to contagion in its most concentrated force when himself under the influence of cold, wet, fatigue, and hunger, as he labors among the poor, passing from hovel to hovel in wild and thinly-populated but extensive districts.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh
So, in over-populated Barbadoes, a plantation hand can earn but twenty-five cents for a day's work continued through ten hours.
"The Story of Malta"
Maturin M. Ballou
There may generally be found a row of villages and hamlets on the last slope of the downs, where the hills sink finally away into the plain and vale, so that if anyone went along the edge of the hills he would naturally think the district well populated.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies