Seeing their hesitation, I said, `` Well, until I have permission to enter Germany, or a visa to re-enter France, I shall be obliged to remain here on the line between two countries '', whereupon I moved to the side of the road, parked my backpack against the small guardhouse on the sidewalk, sat down, took out my typewriter, and began typing the above conversation.

The matter may seem a small thing to some people, I know, but it's a very good start on the road to Totalitarianism The Commission has posted signs in Washington Square saying:

Most parts of Alaska that are off the road system can only be reached by small airplane.

The Red Sox are consistently one of the top MLB teams in average road attendance, while the small capacity of Fenway Park prevents them from leading in overall attendance.

The district council also contains a small section of County Tyrone in the Dromore and Kilskeery road areas.

While noir is often associated with an urban setting, many classic noirs take place in small towns, suburbia, rural areas, or on the open road ; so setting cannot be its genre determinant, as with the Western.

The circuit uses everyday sections of road that circle Albert Park Lake, a small man-made lake just south of the Central Business District of Melbourne.

A proving mortar — a type of small cannon used to gauge the strength of the gunpowder — used by the factory still lies by the side of the road to the nearby pottery.

, LeRoy, New York, is still known as the home of Jell-O and has the only Jell-O Museum in the world, which is located on the main road through the small town.

Grant claimed that he saw a small head attached to a long neck, and that the creature saw him and crossed the road back into the loch.

The Strong Republic Nautical Highway links many of the islands ' road networks through a series of roll-on / roll-off ferries, some rather small covering short distances and some larger vessels that might travel several hours or more.

This wealth was shown by the many monuments that were particularly imposing considering the relatively small size of the urban area: the forum, laid out in two terraces on both sides of the main road, was constructed in several phases between the reigns of Claudius and Antoninus Pius, and the theatre was enlarged and expanded in order to hold Roman games.

These usually small establishments can still be identified in many towns, seemingly oddly located in the middle of otherwise terraced housing part way up a street, unlike purpose-built pubs that are usually found on corners or road junctions.

A small but important part of the Strip — the area around present day Toledo and Maumee Bay — fell within the Great Black Swamp, and this area was nearly impossible to navigate by road, especially after spring and summer rainfalls.

The plan was for 20 small quadrangular blocks of housing to be arranged around the main road ( la rue Nationale ), which was widened.

Girl in a small village on the road between the town Kafue in the south and the capital city Lusaka – Zambia

In the mid-18th century, Lawrence Owen opened a small inn on the road.

Monmouth remained a relatively sedate and quiet small town for most of the 20th century ; its passenger rail services ended in 1959, but its road connections greatly improved with the new A40 bypassing the town in 1966, and later connecting the town to the motorway system.

The road began as a leveled dirt road upon which small stones and mortar were laid.

The Romans built a high-quality road, with layers of cemented stone over a layer of small stones, crowned, drainage ditches on either side, low retaining walls on sunken portions, and dirt pathways for sidewalks.

Back of Keppoch ( Gaelic: Cùl na Ceapaich ) is a small coastal settlement in the north west Scottish Highlands, approximately 40 miles west of Fort William near to the A830 road to Mallaig.

To force Edward to take this route, Bruce adopted tactics similar to those he had used at the Battle of Loudon Hill: both sides of the road were peppered with small pits or ' pots ', each three feet deep and covered with brush, which would force the enemy to bunch towards the centre of a dangerously constricted front.

Touring cars race exclusively on road courses and street circuits, while its American counterpart predominantly utilizes oval tracks, with road courses constituting a small percentage.

She came from Ohio, from what she called a `` small farm '' of two hundred acres, as indeed it was to farmer-type farmers.

On a misty Sunday morning last month, a small band of militant anti-Communists called the Minutemen held maneuvers in a foggy field about fifteen miles east of here.

The nude was small and black-haired and elfin, and was called `` Eloise ''.

Tadpoles do not have true teeth but, in most species, the jaws have long, parallel rows of small keratinized structures called keradonts surrounded by a horny beak.

Asia Minor ( from, Mikrá Asía, small Asia ) is a geographical location at the westernmost protrusion of Asia, also called Anatolia, and corresponds to the western two thirds of the Asian part of Turkey.

The subfamily can be easily recognized by its characteristic smell ( the smell of garlic and onions, singular enough to be called " garlic odour "), by the very soft, fleshy leaves and the umbel-like inflorescence at the end of a stem ( scape ), which has small to medium flowers with a superior ovary.

For example, if one defines categories in terms of sets, that is, as sets of objects and morphisms ( usually called a small category ), or even locally small categories, whose hom-objects are sets, then there is no category of all sets, and so it is difficult for a category-theoretic formulation to apply to all sets.

The National Federation of Independent Businesses, an organization that lobbies for small businesses, called the ADA " a disaster for small business ".

The French Revolution ( 1787 – 99 ) that began during his youth was also influential: Ampère ’ s father was called into public service by the new revolutionary government, becoming a justice of the peace in a small town near Lyon.

The nucleus of the estate was a small farm of, called Cartleyhole, nicknamed Clarty ( i. e., muddy ) Hole, and was bought by Scott on the lapse of his lease ( 1811 ) of the neighbouring house of Ashestiel.

There is a small museum called Casa de la Máscara ( House of Masks ) which is dedicated to masks, most of them from Mexico but there are examples from many parts of the world.

After the death of his brother-in-law, Henry II, margrave of a small area on the Elbe called the Saxon Northern March, in 1128, Albert, disappointed at not receiving this fief himself, attacked Udo, the heir, and was consequently deprived of Lusatia by Lothar.

There was on the promontory a small town, or rather village, also called Actium.

There, a small peninsular area is still called " Angeln " today and is formed as a triangle drawn roughly from modern Flensburg on the Flensburger Fjord to the City of Schleswig and then to Maasholm, on the Schlei inlet.

The dried leaves and twigs of the yerba mate plant ( Ilex paraguariensis ) are placed in a small cup, also called mate, usually made from a gourd, but also from bone or horn.

Similar small shrines, called naiskoi, are found in Greek religion, but their use was strictly religious.

The first Baron was Hamelin de Balun, from Ballon, a small town and castle in Maine-Anjou called " Gateway to Maine ", near Le Mans, today in the Sarthe département of France.

This style, called " tabbed " or " ridged ", used the same basic design as the original cartridges with the addition of two small tabs on the cartridge's underside to aid in removal.

While hunting they used small watercrafts called Baidarkas and during travel they used their large Baidaras.

At present Berlin consists of 96 localities, which are commonly made up of several city neighborhoods — called Kiez in the Berlin dialect — representing small residential areas.

Cladocera is an order of small crustaceans commonly called water fleas.

Base stealing is an important characteristic of a particular style of baseball, sometimes called " small ball " or " manufacturing runs ".

Braille characters are small rectangular blocks called cells that contain tiny palpable bumps called raised dots.