Both knew that when trains stopped at Texan crossroads bored soldiers would sometimes enter to ask the passengers if they had any reading material to spare, even a newspaper.

Burial had taken place at night in the ground at the public crossroads under the gibbet, so that his enemies could not find his body and have it dug up and burned.

He claimed to be visiting the waterfront saloon at the crossroads to play cards and drink with his cronies, but Kate had not smelled brandy on him since Mrs. Lattimer's funeral.

He patted the eye Joel had had blackened in a fight over being Rebel at the crossroads some days back.

Ahead there was a stirring of sudden movement at a crossroads.

The foregoing remarks imply that the hypothalamic balance plays a crucial role at the crossroads between physiological and pathological forms of emotion.

It suddenly occurred to me that I did not particularly like acting, that I was at some sort of crossroads and would have to decide soon what I was going to do with my life.

Mississippi's relations with the national Democratic party will be at a crossroads during 1961, with the first Democratic president in eight years in the White House.

With Beauregard's help, Johnston decided to concentrate forces with those formerly under Polk and now already under Beauregard's command at the strategically located railroad crossroads of Corinth, Mississippi, which he reached by a circuitous route.

To better police this area, he built a royal residence at Tell Brak, a crossroads at the heart of the Khabur River basin of the Jezirah.

It is located in the southern French Alps, at the crossroads between Provence, Piedmont and the Dauphiné, and is the largest town in the Ubaye Valley.

Musical culture was caught at a crossroads: the masters of the older style had the technique, but the public hungered for the new.

Cairo has been a crossroads of Arab commerce and culture for millennia, and its intellectual and Islamic institutions are at the center of the region's social and cultural landmark palace.

The blow of World War I hit the Finnish people and the nation, which, at the beginning of the 20th century, stood at the crossroads between the old regime of the estates and the evolution of a modern, democratic society.

The much more numerous category of vici, " small towns " grew on informal plans, often round a camp or at a ford or crossroads ; some were not small, others were scarcely urban, some not even defended by a wall, the characteristic feature of a place of any importance.

They met at the crossroads at Tinchebray.

Persia's position at the crossroads of the East and the West frequently placed it in the midst of developments in both ancient Greek and Indian medicine.

Hanover was a small village of ferrymen and fishermen that became a comparatively large town in the 13th century due to its position at a natural crossroads.

Cult images and altars of Hecate in her triplicate or trimorphic form were placed at three-way crossroads ( though they also appeared before private homes and in front of city gates ).

In what appears to be a 7th century indication of the survival of cult practices of this general sort, Saint Eligius, in his Sermo warns the sick among his recently converted flock in Flanders against putting " devilish charms at springs or trees or crossroads ", and, according to Saint Ouen would urge them " No Christian should make or render any devotion to the deities of the trivium, where three roads meet ...".

Dogs, with puppies often mentioned, were offered to Hecate at crossroads, which were sacred to the goddess.

Meanwhile, Cairo flourished as a centre of Islamic scholarship and a crossroads on the spice trade route among the civilizations in Afro-Eurasia.

It is a crossroads between the Vieux Nice ( old town ) and the town centre.

Nonetheless, it was rebuilt, and quickly became the most important centre in Cisalpine Gaul, both because of its strategic importance and because it was on an important crossroads between Via Aemilia and the road going to Verona.

* Portlaoise stands at a major crossroads in the Irish roads ( major roads to Dublin, Limerick, Cork ) network although construction in the 1990s of the M7 motorway, which bypasses the town, has reduced traffic congestion in the town centre.

The crossroads at the centre of Camberwell is the site of Camberwell Green, a very small area of common land which was once a traditional village green on which was held an annual fair of ancient origin which rivalled that of Greenwich.

As a busy crossroads, Podgorica was a vibrant regional centre of trade and communication.

Its mediaeval city centre, Gothic and Romanesque churches and bilingual signage give it a unique flavour of a city at the crossroads of Italian and Austrian cultures.

The road leads from La Belle Alliance, where Napoleon had his headquarters on the morning of the battle, through where the centre of the French front line was located, to a crossroads on the ridge which is at the top of the escarpment and then on to Brussels.

Statues of both men stand in the town centre ; Barnes is outside St Peter's Church and Hardy's beside the Top o ' Town crossroads.

The town centre itself had moved from the Station Road / Dock Street area, to an area that had once been home to a stud farm ( indeed, the former Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council officially referred to the town centre as Stud Farm for housing allocation purposes ) around the crossroads of Sutton Way / Stanney Lane and Whitby Road.

There is a distinctive red brick, spired clock tower at the crossroads in the centre of the town that was built in 1842.

The road continues to follow the Wye to the busy crossroads where it meets the A44 in the centre of Rhayader.

In the 10th century it was an important centre of long-range international trade at the crossroads of two important trade routes: a north-south " salt route " from Kołobrzeg to Poznań and Greater Poland, and the west-east Pomeranian route from Szczecin to Gdańsk.

Long before the construction of the cathedral began, the site had been the crossroads, there was the former centre of the town, a market and probably also a chapel.

The village has two centres: a commercial centre based around the shops and central crossroads ; and a community-oriented centre based around The Common featuring two churches, the village hall, a school, a pub, a children ’ s playground, and The Common itself.

At that time, the centre of Earley was the crossroads and Saint Peters Church.

At the crossroads in the centre of town it crosses the original route of the A151 in the historic market place ().

There are crossroads for Brothertoft Road ( A1137 ), which can be used to avoid the busy town centre, then a mini-roundabout with Carlton Road becoming Queen Street.

Victoria Square is at the centre of Stockton Heath and is on the crossroads of the A49 and A56.

Due to the volume of traffic generated by the convergence of two of Wales's most important trunk roads, the construction of a bypass to relieve congestion at the town centre crossroads has been an ongoing debate for many years.

Standing on the crossroads of main trade routes in Asia Minor, the area was a centre of importance for Greeks, amongst whom also lived a population of Syriac Christians, Jews, Armenians, and Assyrians.

* Holywood is famous for its maypole at the crossroads in the centre of town.