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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 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.

city and center
We have now a quiet city, fewer automobiles, less congestion, and fewer retail customers shopping in center city.
He walked toward the center of the city to keep his rendezvous with Styka.
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.
Here you can pick up a taxi or public transport to return to the center of the city.
In these terms, the `` economic withdrawal '' of the Negroes of Nashville, Tennessee, from trading in the center city, for example, was clearly justified, since these distinctions do not require that only people subjectively guilty be singled out.
During the 1960s and 1970s, the city gained a reputation as a center for liberal politics.
During the 1960s and 1970s, the city gained a reputation as an important center for liberal politics.
From there Route N193 readily connects to the center of the city.
The city is located in rich farm country, which produces corn, soybeans, and tomatoes ; and is in the Indiana natural gas region, to which fact it owed its growth as a manufacturing center.
Although only half the size and population of West Berlin, East Berlin included most of the historic center of the city.
After conquering Edirne ( Adrianople ) in 1365 the Ottomans turned it into a joint capital city for governing their European realms, but Bursa remained the most important Anatolian administrative and commercial center even after it lost its status as the sole Ottoman capital.
Aside from the local silk production, the city imported raw silk from Iran, and occasionally from China, and was the main production center for the kaftans, pillows, embroidery and other silk products for the Ottoman palaces until the 17th century.
The city has traditionally been a pole of attraction, and was a major center for refugees from various ethnic backgrounds who immigrated to Anatolia from the Balkans during the loss of the Ottoman territories in Europe between the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The city is still a major center for textiles in Turkey and is home to the Bursa International Textiles and Trade Center ( Bursa Uluslararası Tekstil ve Ticaret Merkezi, or BUTTIM.
Bursa Yenisehir Airport is 20 mile away from city center.
In the center of Bethlehem is its old city.
Nineveh was a city of vast extent, and was then the center of the civilization and commerce of the world, a " bloody city all full of lies and robbery " ( Nahum 3: 1 ), for it had robbed and plundered all the neighboring nations.
Its historic city center is a listed UNESCO world heritage site.
N ' Djamena, the capital, is located more than 1, 100 kilometers northeast of the Atlantic Ocean ; Abéché, a major city in the east, lies 2, 650 kilometers from the Red Sea ; and Faya-Largeau, a much smaller but strategically important center in the north, is in the middle of the Sahara Desert, 1, 550 kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea.
The city's commercial center began to shift from Harvard Square to Central Square, which became the downtown of the city around this time.
In 1937, the school moved from the city center to the new Gibraltar Campus, named after the mansion which owned the grounds, where it is now located.
Commuter rail, also called suburban rail, is a passenger rail transport service that primarily operates between a city center, and the middle to outer suburbs beyond 15 km ( 10 miles ) and commuter towns or other locations that draw large numbers of commuters — people who travel on a daily basis.

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