:" Being in great difficulty they fled to a neighbouring city ( ad civitatem, quæ iuxta erat, confugerunt ) and began to promise and offer to their gods -- But inasmuch as the city was not strong and there were few to offer resistance, they sent messengers to the Danes and asked for friendship and alliance.

:" For this city he ordained, as the first among our people, the abbot Hiltin, whom he wanted to call John.

:" During his journey he seized the opportunity to make a detour to Birka, which is now reduced to loneliness so that one can hardly find vestiges of the city ; therefore impossible to come upon the tomb of the holy Archbishop Unni.

:" Also in another volume from the times of Pope John XV, Dagome, lord, and Ote, lady, and their sons Misico and Lambert ( I do not know of which nation those people are, but I think they are Sardinians, for those are ruled by four judges ) were supposed to give to Saint Peter one state in whole which is called Schinesghe, with all its lands in borders which run along the long sea, along Prussia to the place called Rus, thence to Kraków and from said Kraków to the River Oder, straight to a place called Alemure, and from said Alemure to the land of Milczanie, and from the borders of that people to the Oder and from that, going along the River Oder, ending at the earlier mentioned city of Schinesghe.

:" There is one place there that is called the Elf Home ( Álfheimr which is the elven city ).

:" For truly in this city there were gathered together against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose predestined to occur.

:" And ' Ur, the son of Kesed, built the city of ' Ara of the Chaldees, and called its name after his own name and the name of his father.

:" In Cyprus is a city Amathus, in which is an old sanctuary of Adonis and Aphrodite.

:" After receiving this revelation, Joseph began making arrangements to build up a city.

:" Boogien Mansion " ( Repeated reference to city of Detroit's official mayoral residence the Manoogian Mansion )

:" From Alasanda the city of the Yonas came the thera (" elder ") Yona Mahadhammarakkhita with thirty thousand bhikkhus.

:" Kinsley, who does come off as the stereotypical Los Angeles-hating East Coast wonk, said recently that because L. A. is the second biggest city in the country, ' it's really bush league to care about where the writers are from.

:" ASL has become his constant companion on road trips, and every National League city is now his playground for baseball at night and ASL in the day.

:" On Thursday died, in this city, aged 70, James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African prince, of Zoara.

:" Some people are forsaking the suburbs and returning to the city.

The name " Kastoria " first appears in the middle of the 6th century ( 550 AD ), mentioned by Procopius as follows :" There was a certain city in Thessaly, Diocletianopolis by name, which had been prosperous in ancient times, but with the passage of time and the assaults of the barbarians it had been destroyed, and for a very long time it had been destitute of inhabitants ; and a certain lake chances to be close by which was named Castoria. There is an island in the middle of the lake, for the most part surrounded by water ; but there remains a single narrow approach to this island through the lake, not more than fifteen feet wide. And a very lofty mountain stands above the island, one half being covered by the lake while the remainder rests upon it.

:" Houses of ill-fame are necessary to city life, if you close these sewers of men's animal passions you overflow the home and spread disaster.

:" Whereas the Emperor Augustus Caesar, in the month of Sextilis, was first admitted to the consulate, and thrice entered the city in triumph, and in the same month the legions, from the Janiculum, placed themselves under his auspices, and in the same month Egypt was brought under the authority of the Roman people, and in the same month an end was put to the civil wars ; and whereas for these reasons the said month is, and has been, most fortunate to this empire, it is hereby decreed by the senate that the said month shall be called Augustus.

When Daniel Defoe toured Scotland in 1717, he visited Elgin and said :" In this rich country is the city, or town rather, of Elgin ; I say city, because in antient time the monks claim'd it for a city ; and the cathedral shews, by its ruins, that it was a place of great magnificence.

:" On the short list of targets for the atom bomb, in addition to Hiroshima, Kokura and Niigata, was the Japanese city of temples, Kyoto.

Princes Street represented a critical part of the plan, being the outer edge, facing Edinburgh Castle and the original city :" Edinburgh Old Town ".

:" It is the city of Yemen — there not being found in the highland or the Tihama or the Hijaz a city greater, more populous or more prosperous, of more noble origin or more delicious food than it.

:" In the county of Cork the electoral divisions of:

:" In the county of Cork the electoral divisions of:

:" The county of Cork, except the parts thereof which are comprised in the constituencies of Cork East, Cork North – Central, Cork North – West and Cork South – Central.

:" In the city of Cork the electoral divisions of:

:" Some of you may ask, what is the good of working so hard merely to collect a few facts which will bring no pleasure except to a few long-haired professors who love to collect such things and will be of no use to anybody because only few specialists at best will be able to understand them?

:" Mozart's music was generally admired by connoisseurs already at the first performance, if I except only those whose self-love and conceit will not allow them to find merit in anything not written by themselves.

:" Novels are all so full of nonsense and stuff ; there has not been a tolerably decent one come out since Tom Jones, except The Monk ; I read that t ' other day ; but as for all the others, they are the stupidest things in creation.

:" The territory of the Republic of China according to its existing national boundaries shall not be altered except by resolution of the National Assembly.

:" Garner is indisputably the great originator, the most important British writer of fantasy since Tolkien, and in many respects better than Tolkien, because deeper and more truthful ... Any country except Britain would have long ago recognised his importance, and celebrated it with postage stamps and statues and street-names.

:" It was a dark and stormy night ; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets ( for it is in London that our scene lies ), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

Of the boundaries marked on a map attached to the memorandum he wrote :" By excluding Hebron and the East of the Jordan there is less to discuss with the Moslems, as the Mosque of Omar then becomes the only matter of vital importance to discuss with them and further does away with any contact with the bedouins, who never cross the river except on business.

:" It was a dark and stormy night ; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets ( for it is in London that our scene lies ), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

:" I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress ; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

:" This is the greatest Elephant in the World, except Himself.

:" has no name, but it would seem to be most like ; for the character of the person in the intermediate state is just what we mean in speaking of a decent friend, except that the friend is also fond of us.

:" Put all the ingredients, except the lemon-juice, into a stew-pan ; set it over the fire, and keep continually stirring.

:" Provided, That, as an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty which may be negotiated between them, and to the use by the Executive of the moneys herein appropriated, neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory, except for crime, whereof the party shall first be duly convicted.

:" I think that this is the laziest life that a man could find-there is not a blamed thing to do except lay around, sleep and go ' bug house '.

:" This river ( Indus ) has seven mouths, very shallow and marshy, so that they are not navigable, except the one in the middle ; at which by the shore, is the market-town, Barbaricum.

:" Beyond this region ( Gedrosia ), the continent making a wide curve from the east across the depths of the bays, there follows the coast district of Scythia, which lies above toward the north ; the whole marshy ; from which flows down the river Sinthus, the greatest of all the rivers that flow into the Erythraean Sea, bringing down an enormous volume of water (...) This river has seven mouths, very shallow and marshy, so that they are not navigable, except the one in the middle ; at which by the shore, is the market-town, Barbaricum.

Tacitus had said of them as tribesmen :" The Germans have no taste for peace ; renown is easier won among perils, and you cannot maintain a large body of companions except by violence and war.

:" This river Indus has seven mouths, very shallow and marshy, so that they are not navigable, except the one in the middle ; at which by the shore, is the market-town, Barbaricum.

:" The gentlemen were attired in ordinary morning costume and except for their complexion and the oriental cast of their features, they could scarcely be distinguished from their English companions.

:" They assemble, except in the case of a sudden emergency, on certain fixed days, either at new or at full moon ; for this they consider the most auspicious season for the transaction of business.

:" No sentence shall be passed and no penalty shall be executed on a person found guilty of an offence except pursuant to a conviction pronounced by a court offering the essential guarantees of independence and impartiality.

:" An odd little comic thriller-who, except perhaps Michael Powell, would cast 47-year-old Cabinet of Dr. Caligari star Conrad Veidt as a light romantic hero?

Also enthusiastic was Peter Travers of Rolling Stone :" A Dirty Shame is Waters unleashed, and wicked, kinky fun for anyone except the twits who rated it NC-17 ... You may even shed a tear when Sylvia bonds with her daughter by confessing, " I'm a cunnilingus bottom.

:" All the rest of the delegation left His presence except the three Rastafarian Brethren ( Bros. Fil, Mack, Planno, as we had presents for H. I. M .).

:" The county of Clare, except the part thereof which is comprised in the constituency of Limerick City.