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.

Another German failure was the Siege of Leningrad, in which the city was fully blockaded on land between 1941 – 44 by German and Finnish forces, suffering starvation and more than a million deaths, but never surrendering.

The emperor Michael II is blockaded in Constantinople, but Thomas ' first attack on the city fails.

Klenau blockaded the city, leaving a small group of artillery and troops to continue the siege.

The brevets were entirely withdrawn in 1629, by Louis XIII, following the Siege of La Rochelle, in which Cardinal Richelieu blockaded the city for fourteen months.

The Spartan king, Pausanias, laid siege to Athens while Lysander's fleet blockaded the port city of Piraeus.

Various streets which ran between the northern and southern part of the city, including Ledra Street, were blockaded.

The city was blockaded by Union forces, who gained control of the nearby Fort Clinch.

Aju and Liu Zheng arrived in 1268 and blockaded the city with a ring of forts.

The lake is large enough that it could not be blockaded from the land easily, and the city was large enough to make any attempt to reach the harbour from shore-based siege weapons very difficult.

The city was blockaded, but it was the High King's army that ran out of supplies first, so that Brian was forced to abandon the siege and return to Munster around the time of Christmas.

This resulted in the Siege of La Rochelle in which Cardinal Richelieu blockaded the city for 14 months, until the city surrendered and lost its mayor and its privileges.

Another war followed, which concluded with the Siege of La Rochelle, in which royal forces led by Cardinal Richelieu blockaded the city for fourteen months.

The city was twice blockaded by the Ottomans ( in 1304 and 1330 ) before finally succumbing in 1337.

From 2 May 1992, the Serbs blockaded the city.

The main highway from the city of El Alto down to neighboring La Paz was blockaded and the local population called out to protest.

Previous mass demonstrations had taken place in Australia in December 1997, in which newly formed grass-roots organizations blockaded Melbourne, Perth, Sydney and Darwin city centers. The Seattle protests were by far the largest actions to have taken place in the United States.

Arnold concluded that he could not take the city by force, so he blockaded the city on its west side.

It was not until 368 BCE that the Syracusan despot was able to reduce Entella ; the city appears to have still remained in the hands of the Campanians, but was now hostile to the Carthaginians, who ( in 345 BCE ) in consequence ravaged its territory, and blockaded the city itself.

Because the city was still blockaded at the time, the score was flown by night in early July for rehearsal.

Very often blockade running is done in order to transport cargo, for example to bring food or arms to a blockaded city.

The city was blockaded in 1961 by the Tunisian Army and Navy, and then attacked.