The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.

There was only one place where Jake Carwood's description had gone badly awry: the peace and quiet.

The place was quiet.

I felt certain that the director, like the afternoon clerk, seldom moved beyond the counter, that the hall, to them, was a jungle, a dark and unwelcome place.

There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.

It was not, thought Pamela, such an evil place after all.

While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.

It was spoiled now for seed, and it would sour and mold in three days if they failed to find a place and fuel to dry it.

But the fences were still in place fifty-odd years ago, and when we stood on the gate to look over, the sidewalk under our eyes was not cement but two rows of paving stones with grass between and on both sides.

It was in order to avoid the stuffy routine of middle class life that Holmes became a detective in the first place.

The first of which to find important place in our federal government was the graduated income tax under Wilson.

He was right, and Peter Marshall could not help but recall Andrew Cordier's words on the subject, `` Well, it seemed as good a place as any to do the job ''.

Mama swirled the train in place, and not a step was lost.

The Acropolis had been scheduled for the treatment too, but apparently it was to take place at the time of the full moon when the Athenians themselves, out of respect for the natural beauty of the occasion, were wont to forgo their own usual nocturnal illumination.

With his wife and three or more children he arrived in Boston in March, 1637, and soon found it was no place for anyone looking for liberty of conscience.

One can imagine that with her and Gorton there it was no place for anyone with weak nerves.

At the trial which took place later, the Pomham matter was completely omitted.

The result was that by secret agreement draft machinery was actually ready long before the country knew that the device was to take the place of the volunteering method which Theodore Roosevelt favored.

It would, however, reach the proctors and other officers in charge of the public-school performances of the incepting bachelors, and the place that any individual obtained in the lists depended greatly on how he comported himself in the public schools during his acts therein as he was incepting.

My discussion with reference to the resolution was that we should commend those citizens who serve as judges of election and who properly discharge their duty and polling place proprietors who make available their private premises, and not by innuendo criticize them.

The United States was engaged in a military attack on a peaceful, orderly people governed by a regime that had proved itself the most pro-Western and anti-Communist within any of the new nations -- the only place in Africa, moreover, where a productive relationship between whites and blacks had apparently been achieved.

But it seems that pressures against him are coming from somewhere -- in the first place from China, but perhaps also from that `` China Lobby '' which, I was assured in Moscow nearly two years ago, exists on the quiet inside the party.

This was one place where Moonan could go for a drink in a back booth without anyone noticing him, or at least coming up and hanging around and wanting to know all the low-down.

* 1851 – The largest Australian bushfires in a populous region in recorded history take place in the state of Victoria.

Early in the novella, Marlow recounts how London, the largest, most populous and wealthiest city in the world, was a dark place in Roman times.

It is England's second city, the most populous place with city status in the United Kingdom, and the largest city commonly known as Birmingham.

The census-designated place had a population of 99, 615 in 2010, making it the most populous community in Maryland after Baltimore.

The census-designated place of Stevensville is the county's most populous place.

* Fairfield, New South Wales, the most populous place in Australia with that place name

Upper Falls is its largest census-designated place and Cross Lanes its most populous.

Washington, D. C., had an estimated population of 617, 996 in 2011, the 25th most populous place in the United States.

Stevensville is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, and is the county's most populous place among both CDPs and municipalities.

The population was five at the 2010 Census, making the city the least populous incorporated place in Minnesota.

The population was four at the 2010 census, making Ruso the least populous incorporated place in North Dakota.

Pembina was the most populous place in North Dakota according to the 1860 census.

The population was seven at the 2010 Census, tying Bergen as the second least populous incorporated place in North Dakota ( Ruso was the least populous ).

Despite this decline, the 2010 figure actually had moved Canton up from 9th to 8th place among Ohio cities, as nearby Youngstown in neighboring Mahoning County, once considerably more populous than Canton, had suffered a larger decline.

Pine Ridge is a census-designated place ( CDP ) and the most populous community in Shannon County, South Dakota, United States.

The population was 5, 839 at the 2010 census, making it the most populous place in Bandera county.

Norfolk is today the center of the most populous portion of Virginia, and every historical, business and sentimental reason can be adduced in favor of the celebration taking place here rather than in Richmond.

Umm Kulthum's monthly concerts took place on the first Thursday of every month and were renowned for their ability to clear the streets of some of the world's most populous cities as people rushed home to tune in.

Due to the lack of development in the surrounding areas, Norwich has a place of prominence as the most populous location in Chenango county, and the only City on route 12 between Binghamton and Utica.

* Mountain View, California, a city in Santa Clara County and the most populous place with this name