There was only one hitch: the small town of Kehl, on the other side of the Rhine, was still under French jurisdiction.

He was born in the small Danish town of Rudkoebing on the island of Langeland in the south-central part of Denmark on August 14, 1777.

Johnnie was a trucker with a small lumber outfit in a town about twenty miles away, and he was also pretty good at anything in the carpentry line.

The movie, which is influenced by Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector, centers around two Mexicans who are mistaken for government inspectors from Mexico City by the corrupt mayor of a small town.

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.

), one of the two possible eponyms ( the other one being " Cynnus, brother of Coeus ") of Cynna, a small town not far from Heraclea.

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

The siltation of the river delta forced the town further away from water ; In the 14th century, however, Ibn Battutah described Abadan just as a small port in a flat salty plain.

High above the city, near the small town of South Fork, the South Fork Dam was originally built between 1838 and 1853 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as part of a canal system to be used as a reservoir for a canal basin in Johnstown.

He was said to have been born in c. 525 BC in Eleusis, a small town about 27 kilometers northwest of Athens, which is nestled in the fertile valleys of western Attica, though the date is most likely based on counting back forty years from his first victory in the Great Dionysia.

The eighth of eleven children, Maria enjoyed the benefits of belonging to a prosperous family in a small town.

Anne's father was appointed to the perpetual curacy in Haworth, a small town seven miles ( 11 km ) away.

Aster computers was based in the small town of Arkel near the town of Gorinchem.

The ruins of the town may still be seen on Cape Balastra ; they cover seven small hills, and extend from an eastern to a western harbor ; on the southwestern hills are the remains of the medieval settlement of Polystylon.

Abercarn is a small town

After this, the iron industry was represented only by a small tinplate works, but by this stage the economy of the town was dominated by the coal mining industry.

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.

According to popular legend, his raiders gained access to the walled town with the aid of a local woman who sympathised with the rebellion, letting a small party in via the Market Street gate at midnight.

Today, the village is now a small town and a popular holiday resort with most of its past and traditions having rapidly evaporated in the course of time.

In the 2005 – 06 season, Stanley, after winning against Woking with 3 matches to spare, secured a place back in the Football League and the town celebrated with a small parade and honours placed on senior executives of the team.

Ansbach was a small town largely by-passed by the Industrial Revolution, an administrative and cultural center.

In about 11 BC, the Roman Army appears to have stationed a small unit in what is presently the historical centre of the town.

Recent excavations at the Viking harbor town of Fröjel, Gotland in Sweden have revealed a small number of rock crystal lenses known as the Visby lenses.

* Bhurban, a small town and a hill station in Punjab province, Pakistan

On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

The flat, hard cap was small, but he thrust it to the back of his head.

There was some idle talk, a listless discussion of this or that small happening during the day's drive.

Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.

Often, I heard my uncles and cousins speak of it when I was a small boy growing up in Rabaul.

The feeling subsided, it was only a small yearning.

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

The sun was not yet high and all of them were in the small area of shade cast by the boulder.

While he was handling the multi-million-dollar funding operations of the Government he had to resort to borrowing small sums from friends.

Once, then -- for how many years or how few does not matter -- my world was bound round by fences, when I was too small to reach the apple tree bough, to twist my knee over it and pull myself up.

The double editorial on Two Aspects Of `` The U.S. Spirit '' was subtly calculated to suggest a moral sanction for gambles great as well as small, reflecting popular approval of this questionable attitude toward the highest office in the land.

In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.

He soon quarreled with all the party leaders in the House, and came to be regarded with detestation by regular Democrats as a professional radical leading a small pack of obedient terriers whose constant snapping was demoralizing to party discipline.

his hospital and doctor bills had been large and his income had been cut until he was receiving little except small rentals on some properties he still owned.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

Now he was married to a beautiful girl, had a small son, and lived in an expensive apartment and worked for the movies.

Though Garibaldi's fight was small shakes compared to Pickett's Charge -- which, like all Southerners, I view in almost Miltonic terms, fallen angels, etc. -- I associated the two.

That exchange was not only possible but commonplace last week in Manhattan, as more and more New Yorkers were discovering 29th Street and Eighth Avenue, where half a dozen small nightclubs with names like Arabian Nights, Grecian Palace and Egyptian Gardens are the American inpost of belly dancing.

Al's Little Cafe was small, dark, narrow, and filled with the mingled scent of beer, tobacco smoke, and Italian cooking.

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