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.

An acropolis (; akros, akron, edge, extremity + polis, city ; plural: acropoleis or acropolises ) is a settlement, especially a citadel, built upon an area of elevated ground — frequently a hill with precipitous sides, chosen for purposes of defense.

Tavistock was chosen as the host city because it was the home of Eckhardt Wettlaufer, the maker of the earliest known board.

When the Israeli nuclear program started later that decade, a location not far from the city was chosen for the Negev Nuclear Research Center due to its relative isolation in the desert and availability of housing.

Babur had chosen the site for this city and was built by his grandson Jalal-uddin Mohammad Akbar in 1570.

The city of Walk was chosen as the site of the diet.

One of his towns, Wawel ( now part of the city ), was chosen by the prince as his residence.

Like a growing number of aristocrats in the late 4th and early 5th centuries who were entering the clergy rather than taking up the more usual administrative careers in the imperial service, Paulinus spent a great deal of his money on his chosen church and city.

In 1997, IUPAC decided to give dubnium its current name honoring the city of Dubna where the Russian team made their discoveries since American-chosen names had already been used for many existing synthetic elements, while the name rutherfordium ( chosen by the American team ) was accepted for element 104.

Each woman chosen by the Virtues to live in the city acts as a positive example for other women to follow.

Those from the city were chosen by lot from each parish, their families being supported by the remainder of the parish while the rowers were away.

He has spent 4 years building the city on the site of ancient Byzantium ; having chosen the site for its strategic location ( a seaport with easy access to Anatolia and the Danube ).

Leonardo da Vinci, who was in Milan from around 1482 until the fall of the city to the French in 1499, was commissioned in 1487 to design a tiburio, or crossing tower for the cathedral, although he was not chosen to build it.

In 1309 the city, still part of the Kingdom of Arles, was chosen by Pope Clement V as his residence, and from 9 March 1309 until 13 January 1377 was the seat of the Papacy instead of Rome.

The Public Council, composed of forty-eight councillors chosen by the people, four members of the clergy and four doctors of the university, met under the presidency of the chief magistrate of the city, the viquier ( Occitan ) or vicar or representative of the papal Legate or Vice-legate, who annually nominated a man for the post.

In 1309 the city was chosen by Clement V as his residence, and from that time till 1377 was the papal seat.

The plan chosen to extend Barcelona was a rigorous project based on a scientific analysis of the city and its modern requirements.

When in the 1930s the city wanted to adopt a coat-of-arms and the birds were chosen as a possible symbol.

It was unanimously chosen as the host city during a congress organized by Pierre de Coubertin, a French pedagogue and historian, in Paris, on June 23, 1894.

It was chosen to replace the mainland city of Bata as the capital of the country in 1969, and was renamed Malabo in 1973 as part of President Francisco Macías Nguema's campaign to replace European place names with " authentic " African ones.

In 1235, Jeanne granted a city charter by which city governors would be chosen each All Saint's Day by four commissioners chosen by the ruler.

As he had foreseen, God had chosen Florence, " the navel of Italy ", as his favorite and he repeated: if the city continued to do penance and began the work of renewal it would have riches, glory and power.

The name of the garden city itself was chosen through a public competition in 1953.