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.

* In the film and book City of Ember, the principal city is either the last or one of several underground cities used to escape a devastating war.

Commissioner Paul Tagliabue promised the city of Cleveland that an NFL team would be located in Cleveland, either through relocation or expansion, " no later than 1999 ".

Each cardinal takes on a titular church, either a church in the city of Rome or one of the suburbicarian sees.

Wonders typically affect either the city in which they are built ( for example, the Colossus ), every city on the continent ( for example, the Hanging Gardens ), or the civilization as a whole ( for example, Darwin's Voyage ).

Exile means to be away from one's home ( i. e. city, state or country ), while either being explicitly refused permission to return and / or being threatened with imprisonment or death upon return.

The modern city covers over 50 % of the distance between Lake Drużno and Elbląg Bay ( Zatoka Elbląska ), an arm of the Vistula Lagoon, and extends on either side of the river, but especially to the east.

Aside from the traditional usage, the term empire can be used in an extended sense to denote a large-scale business enterprise ( e. g. a transnational corporation ), or a political organisation of either national -, regional-or city scale, controlled either by a person ( a political boss ) or a group authority ( political bosses ).

A municipality can call itself either a " city " or " municipality ".

Certain regions are especially associated with some dishes ( for example, the city of Jeonju with bibimbap ) either as a place of origin or for a famous regional variety.

After World War II, the devastated city along with all of Pomerania east of the Oder-Neisse line became Polish, and the remaining Germans either fled or were expelled.

" The Lord Mayor, Sheriffs and Aldermen of the City, treated their King with a collation under a tent, placed in St. George's Fields ; and five or six hundred citizens cloathed in coats of black velvet, and ( not improperly ) wearing chains about their necks, by an order of the Common Council, attended on the triumph of that day ;... and those who had been so often defeated in the field, and had contributed nothing either of bravery or policy to this change, in ordering the souldiery to ride with swords drawn through the city of London to White Hall, the Duke of York and Monk leading the way ; and intimating ( as was supposed ) a resolution to maintain that by force which had been obtained by fraud.

* In Albania, a municipality is either part of a city ( bashki ) or a province ( komunë ).

* In New Zealand, a municipality is part of either a " city " ( mostly urban ) or a " district " ( mostly rural ).

Griffith was determined not to alienate fans in either city by naming the team after one city or the other, so his desire was to name the team the " Twin Cities Twins ", however MLB objected.

The main transportation options available for travel within and around the city are either personal vehicles or private taxis.

Most of the people in the city who could not escape to the last Assyrian strongholds in the north and west were either massacred or deported out of the city.

Nazareth is known as " the Arab capital of Israel "; the population is made up predominantly of Arab citizens of Israel, almost all of whom are either Muslim ( 69 %) or Christian ( 30. 9 %).< ref >< p > In the New Testament, the city is described as the childhood home of Jesus, and as such is a center of Christian pilgrimage, with many shrines commemorating biblical events.

Army Group North was to march through the Baltics into northern Russia, and either take or destroy the city of Leningrad ( now Saint Petersburg ).

) may sometimes be called a " symphony orchestra " or " philharmonic orchestra "; these modifiers do not necessarily indicate any strict difference in either the instrumental constitution or role of the orchestra, but can be useful to distinguish different ensembles based in the same city ( for instance, the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra ).

Augustine also preached that one was not a member of his or her city, but was either a citizen of the City of God ( Civitas Dei ) or the City of Man ( Civitas Terrena ).

The ancient Olympic Games were held every four years in the Greek city of Olympia, in the Kingdom of Elis, from 776 BC through either 261 or 393 AD.