I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.

So the verdict was `` death at the hands of a person or persons unknown '', and the elite of the city, accepting Delphine's testimony, welcomed her and the doctor back into the fold.

It was to provide a safe and spacious crossing for these caravans, and also to make a pleasance for the city, that Shah Abbas 2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked brick, tile, and stone, the present bridge.

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.

That night a note written in Slocum's hand and dated from inside the captured city came to Sherman stating that the Twentieth Corps was in possession of Atlanta.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

It was not until we had returned to the city to live, while I was still at Brown and Sharpe's, that I felt the full impact of evangelical Christianity.

It is remembered and has been commemorated by a bust in a park and a square in the city which was renamed Piazzo Lauro Di Bosis after the war.

The U.N.-chartered plane which was flying from the conference city of Ndola in Northern Rhodesia had been riddled with machinegun bullets last weekend and was newly repaired.

As we understand, this directive was given to all city and county employes.

The city was a center of manufacture, especially in textiles, and also because of the beauty of some of its surroundings, a residence for many owners of the great industries in north Alabama.

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

For the old preacher who had been there twenty-five years was dead, and the city mourned him.

Port Jervis, basking in the foothills, was the city of God.

The city had recently given him a small salary, but it was not enough to supply even necessities.

The doctor sat down rather wearily, caressing the hen and remarking that the city was not the place for a poultry-loving man, but no sooner was the remark out than a knock at this door obliged him to cover the hen with his greatcoat once more.

But that year was different, for just as the city, in the form of my street clothes, had intruded upon my mountain nights, so an essential part of the summer gave promise of continuing into the fall: Jessica and I, about to be separated not by a mere footbridge or messhall kitchen but by the immense obstacle of residing in cruelly distant boroughs, had agreed to correspond.

From proud pool-owners to perpetual hosts and handymen was a short step -- no more than the change from city clothes to trunks.

It was reported to Welch's office that a thief in the city jail had attempted suicide.

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 ).

There were lights glinting in the city, too, even though it was now dark enough for a few stars to become visible.

Left alone while her husband was miles away in the city, the modern wife assumed more and more duties normally reserved for the male.

With the nation divided by the Vietnam War and with the assassinations of King and Robert F. Kennedy earlier that year serving as backdrop, the city became a battleground for anti-war protesters who vowed to shut down the convention.

Representations of the city, countryside, and building interiors are essential to Balzac's realism, often serving to paint a naturalistic backdrop before which the characters ' lives follow a particular course ; this gave him a reputation as an early naturalist.

Describing his first impressions of the city, Lang said that " the buildings seemed to be a vertical sail, scintillating and very light, a luxurious backdrop, suspended in the dark sky to dazzle, distract and hypnotize ".

He was shown against a backdrop of the skyline of London as it would have appeared in 1711 with St Paul's towering above the other city buildings.

This iconic part of the city becomes the backdrop for a wildly passionate love story and some of the most visually arresting images of the city ever created.

Large volcanoes serve as a backdrop to the city of Bend in Deschutes County, ranging from the prominent Three Sisters, Mt.

It makes up the backdrop to the city of Rockhampton which marks the start of Tropical Queensland.

Featuring several unlikable and unsympathetic protagonists, the miniseries " capture the city in a dirty and unflattering — yet realistic — light " serving as a backdrop to a tale of the Thai sex trade and sex tourism.

Although the actual town involved in the real story of the " Chicken Ranch " is located a few miles north of Hallettsville on Highway 77, film makers chose the town's historic Lavaca County Courthouse square to serve as backdrop for the city scenes in " The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ," the 1982 musical starring Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton.

The film opens in the fictional Indian city of Mayapore and is set during the 1940s against the backdrop of the last days of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement.

The escarpment is largely protected by a State Conservation Area and local scenic protection zoning, and provides the visual backdrop to the city.

A " gateway to the city ," set against the backdrop of Manhattan's greatest buildings on one side and the river on the other, the design was created to imbue the terminal " with a strong sense of civic presence.

Legio XX Valeria Victrix and their final days in Deva ( Chester ) in the early 400's AD form the backdrop to the Tom Stevens mythic-fiction genre novel ' The Cauldron ' ( special edition ) with the story's protagonist Valerian-the Praefectus and Chief Centurion defending the city with the rump of the legion against the incursions of Hibernian pirates as the ' Dark Ages ' settle on Britannia

This is highlighted by the fact that the knights ' bishop's miter is adorned by swastikas, while religion plays a minor role on the Russian side, being present mostly as a backdrop in the form of Novgorod's St. Nicholas Cathedral and the clerics with their icons during the victorious entry of Nevsky into the city after the battle.

The series is a " a stylish, new drama about modern, urban Welsh-speakers living in a bilingual city " following " a group of modern urban twenty-and thirtysomethings " with " their complex friendships and relationships against a backdrop of relentless socialising ".

In February 1937, against the backdrop of the Great Depression, George Pepperdine founded the university as a Christian liberal arts college in the city of Los Angeles.

The city of San Marino has taken acted as a backdrop for a number of films and television shows.

An example is the sequence in which Lana has an orgasm, followed by a shot of her, Brandon, Candace, and Kate driving in a car against the backdrop of the city skyline.

Tributes to Fellini in the " Director's Cut " of Cinema Paradiso ( 1988 ) include a helicopter suspending a statue of Christ over the city and scenes in which the Trevi Fountain is used as a backdrop while Toto, the main character, grows up to be a famous film director.

Another song sequence (" Suraj Hua Maddham ") involving Khan and Kajol was shot with the backdrop of the Pyramids of Giza in the city of Cairo in Egypt, again a first for an Indian film.

However, Peter Brown frames it against a long-term backdrop of frequent mob violence in the city, where the Greek and Jewish quarters had fought during four hundred years, since the 1st century BCE.

Later madrigal comedies are sometimes divided into acts, including a prologue, and while not " acted " in the sense of an opera, they may have been performed on stage with elaborate painted backdrops ( for example, there is an existing woodcut showing the prologue of Orazio Vecchi's L ' Amfiparnaso ( 1597 ): a singer is evidently in costume in a backdrop showing a city street ).

KTVI also removed the city skyline backdrop in favor of a blue backdrop.