Not long ago an acquaintance, a slick-headed water rat of a lad up from the maw of the city, stood on the balcony puffing his first cigarette in weeks.

Just east of Sparta stood an archaic statue of the god in chains, to show that the spirit of war and victory was never to leave the city.

Ironically, the great anti-imperialist rebel was now identified with the head of the British Empire, and her statue stood guard over the city she razed to the ground.

Just outside of the city walls stood a small castle.

As a goddess expected to avert demons from the house or city over which she stood guard and to protect the individual as she or he passed through dangerous liminal places, Hecate would naturally become known as a goddess who could also refuse to avert the demons, or even drive them on against unfortunate individuals.

Enodia's very name (" In-the-Road ") suggests that she watched over entrances, for it expresses both the possibility that she stood on the main road into a city, keeping an eye on all who entered, and in the road in front of private houses, protecting their inhabitants.

After conducting researches in the 12th century, the Seljuk sultan Ahmed Sanjar ordered a city and shrine to be built on the location, where it stood until its destruction by Genghis Khan and his Mongol army in the 13th century.

The resulting space is often seen in old city centers of Europe even to this day, as broader streets often outline where the old wall once stood ( evident for example in Prague and Florence, Italy ).

Other cities that had perished, such as Palmyra, Persepolis, and Thebes, had left ruins to mark their sites and tell of their former greatness ; but of this city, imperial Nineveh, not a single vestige seemed to remain, and the very place on which it had stood became only matter of conjecture.

As of the 2010 census the population of the city of Nashville, not including the semi-independent municipalities, stood at 601, 222.

Dozens of public buses stood idle for months, severely damaging the bus transit company's finances, until the city repealed its law requiring segregation on public buses following the US Supreme Court ruling that it was unconstitutional.

Memories of war, fear and friendship in my home city, where time has stood still, The Independent, Robert Fisk, 19 March 2005.

For many years, Mogadishu stood as the pre-eminent city in the بلاد البربر, Bilad-al-Barbar (" Land of the Berbers "), which was the medieval Arabic term for the Horn of Africa.

The city grew and prospered, and for some time stood as the most powerful Greek city anywhere in the Mediterranean.

The city of Troy itself stood on a hill, across the plain of Scamander, where the battles of the Trojan War took place.

" Thirteen hundred years before Rome, Trier stood / may it stand on and enjoy eternal peace, amen ," reflects the proud city tradition.

For example, the charter of the city of Saint John, New Brunswick was amended in 1785 specifically to exclude blacks from practicing a trade, selling goods, fishing in the harbour, or becoming freemen ; these provisions stood until 1870.

Site of the Menelaion, the shrine to Helen and Menelaus constructed anciently in the Bronze Age city that stood on the hill of Therapnes | Therapne on the left bank of the Eurotas ( river ) | Eurotas River overlooking the future site of Dorian Sparta.

The historic city formed an oval, surrounded by a strong wall, high, dating from the 12th century CE, and was flanked with towers, while on a rock, stood a castle.

The agreement with the city was cancelled and Dummer erected a lath and plaster facsimile, which stood in the park for about sixty years before it was destroyed by the weather.

This includes stone pillar-gates, brick tomb chambers, rammed-earth city walls, rammed-earth and brick beacon towers, rammed-earth sections of the Great Wall, rammed-earth platforms where elevated halls once stood, and two rammed-earth castles in Gansu.

Frederick II of Prussia was elated with his success ; Prussia took most of the Polish Royal Prussia that stood between its possessions in the Kingdom of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg, taking Ermland ( Warmia ), Royal Prussia without the city of Danzig ( Gdańsk ) ( which in 1773 became a new province called West Prussia ), northern areas of Greater Poland along the Noteć River ( the Netze District ), and parts of Kuyavia, ( also the Prussian city of Thorn ).

One French army was now immobilised and besieged in the city of Metz, and no other forces stood on French ground to prevent a German invasion.

Miriam had not yet goaded him into mentioning her directly, but one can feel the generalized anger in Wright's remarks to reporters when he was asked, one morning on arrival in Chicago, what he thought of the city as a whole.

We fashioned beards, put them on, and reported to the Hetman at the city desk.

He paused for a moment to look at me, then went on to the city desk to deliver his `` Today '' column.

Aroused by what they considered an evil influence, some members of the clergy, joined by city authorities, merchants, and master craftsmen, began the attack on the plays and the actors for what they called `` the abuses of the art '', but by 1582 some of them began to denounce the whole idea of acting.

Morgan and his corps were placed on the west side of the Schuylkill River, with instructions to intercept all supplies found going to the city and to keep a close eye on the movements of the enemy.

Certainly all can applaud passage of an auto title law, the school bills, the increase in teacher pensions, the ban on drag racing, acceptance by the state of responsibility for maintenance of state roads in municipalities at the same rate as outside city limits, repeal of the college age limit law and the road maintenance bond issue.

High-speed buses on the George Washington Memorial Parkway, operating between downtown Washington and Cabin John, Glen Echo and Brookmont, would constitute an alluring sample of what the new National Capital Transportation Agency can do for this city.

West Berlin's Mayor Brandt vigorously demanded a firmer stand on the dismemberment of his city and won votes by it.

A road block to desirable local or borough improvements, heretofore dependent on the pocketbook vote of taxpayers and hence a drag on progress, is removed by making these a charge against the whole city instead of an assessment paid by those immediately affected.

Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

the rather pleasant white city was on the hill where the chief stores were.

He had on his gray tweed overcoat and his city hat, and his brief case lay on the bench.

From there I turned left along Cumhuriyet Cadesi past more hotels and a park on the left, Republic Gardens, and came in a few moments to Taksim Square, one of the hubs of the city, with the Monument of the Republic, erected in 1928, in its center.

There I got off, crossed the square, and on the side directly opposite the gate found a good restaurant, hard to come by in this part of the city.

For those who plan to travel to Europe by one route and return by another some agencies offer a service whereby you can pick up a car in one city on arrival and leave it in another city, or even another country, when you are ready to return home.

No matter if your children are at the movies, in school, visiting their grandmother, or on a field trip in some distant city, they will be upon you magically within seconds after you pick up the phone.

But this is a public park and it's a city ordinance that the statues cannot be crawled on ''.

If it is possible for an enemy to put an atomic bomb on a city, it should be equally possible to put a cloud of biological agent over that city.

The big factories which are relatively near the centers of our cities -- the rubber factories in Akron, Chrysler's Detroit plants, U.S. Steel's Pittsburgh works -- often began on these sites at a time when that was the edge of the city, yet close to transport ( river ), storage ( piers ) and power ( river ).