The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.

The insurance man informed them that he had talked to Crumley who was all right and that he would watch the men's personal effects until they towed the rig back to town.

He went to Key West every fall and winter and was the only man in town who did not know that his title of `` Commodore '' was never used without irony.

The odor here was more powerful than that which surrounded the town aborigines.

In town after town my companion pointed out the Negro school and the White school, and in every instance the former made a better appearance ( it was newer, for one thing ).

First, Wright said, he was choked by the smoke, which fortunately kept him from seeing the dreadful town.

There was only one hitch: the small town of Kehl, on the other side of the Rhine, was still under French jurisdiction.

At this, the students let out a yell, knowing full well the actual frontier was beyond the town of Kehl.

Potemkin's Army of Ekaterinoslav, totaling, it was claimed, 40,000 regular troops and 6,000 irregulars of the Cossack Corps, had invested Islam's principal stronghold on the north shore of the Black Sea, the fortress town of Oczakov, and was preparing to test the Turk by land and sea.

Very soon after his arrival in Little Rock, Pike had joined one of the most influential organizations in town, the Little Rock Debating Society, and it was with this group that he made his debut as an orator, being invited to deliver the annual Fourth of July address the club sponsored every year.

Mr. Banks was always called Banks the Butcher until he left town and the shop passed over to Meltzer the Scholar who then became automatically Meltzer the Butcher.

The `` fruitful course '' of metropolitanization that you recommend is currently practiced by the town of East Greenwich and had its inception long before we learned what it was called.

The doctor, since Scotty was no longer allowed to make his regular trips into town to see him, came often and informally to the house.

At any cost, he must leave the dreary Pennsylvania mining town where his father was a pharmacist.

The backing from the white town was greater and there was little publicity.

The clock you heard strike -- it's really the town clock -- was installed last April by Mrs. Shorter, on her birthday ''.

`` P. J. '' -- as Ludie called the town -- was crowded with summer people who came to the mountains to escape the heat in the big cities.

Before he left town Pat saw to it that I was fixed up with a job.

When he was going to town, nothing was good enough -- he had cursed at Winston once for leaving a fleck of polish on his shoelace.

After Vinton muffed the lyrics of " The Star-Spangled Banner " in his home town of Pittsburgh, Buck lightly referenced Vinton's Polish heritage.

Monson is also referenced in the book The Maine Woods by Henry David Thoreau wherein a drawing of moose antlers depicting the direction and names of both Blanchard and Monson, and the town is mentioned in other sections of the book.

* The town is referenced incorrectly in the 2002 movie City by the Sea, when Long Beach is said to have defeated Cedarhurst in a football game ( instead of the actual high school, Lawrence ).

Brewster was referenced as the home town of Ann Marie ( Marlo Thomas ) in the 1960s TV series That Girl.

Sometimes Oklahomans refer to the state prison simply as " Big Mac " or " McAlester ," and the town is referenced in that manner in the opening pages of The Grapes of Wrath when Tom Joad is released from there.

This is further referenced within the will of Bernard Wilmore, the oldest son of Godfrey and Mary Wilmore, that he lists the town of Jefferson as his home.

The town of Quemado is referenced in The Fray's 2008 song " You Found Me ".

The town is referenced in the Miracle Fortress song " Next Train.

* referenced in the 2002 feature film Catch Me If You Can, as the town which the mother of Frank Abagnale is from.

The town was famous as a speed trap as referenced in the Steve Earle song " Guitar Town ".

" Dunoon is referenced in the 2010 Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre sketch ' The Getaway ', in which the bank-robbing Socks mistakenly heist four kilos of small denomination coins and are forced to scale back their hideaway destination from Venezuela to the small Scottish town.

The town only had one long-distance telephone line, as referenced in the episode " Man in a Hurry ", that two old ladies shared each Sunday preventing others from using the telephone.

In addition, the town and surrounding area is referenced in Mary Norton's popular series, The Borrowers.

As well as being referenced in Blue Velvet, the town is specifically mentioned in Mulholland Drive, Lynch's surreal film about a young actress struggling to cope in Hollywood.

In Doubt a 2008 film adaptation of the John Patrick Shanley stage play, starring Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman, the town is referenced in dialogue between the main character Sister Aloysius ( Meryl Streep ) and the school caretaker.

A December 7, 1997 Boston Globe article referenced his platform of ‘ restoring small town values to the small city ’ of Melrose.

Lee Kernaghan also referenced the town in his 2005 hit song Texas, Qld 4385 from his Electric Rodeo album released in 2005.

Coggeshall has been called Sunnydon, referenced in 1224 as an alias for the town.

The fictional town of Radiator Springs sits at the edge of an area referenced on a map as the " Cadillac Range ", and throughout the movie, rock formations shaped like the upended cars can be seen as a horizon backdrop.

The town is also referenced in Antal Szerb's Journey by Moonlight.

This rapidly increased the size of the town, even bringing in immigrants from abroad particularly Lithuania so much so it is sometimes referenced as little Lithuania.

He has referenced the town in the song ' My Wall ' in which he collaborated with the American drone metal band Sunn 0 ))).

This interchange is colloquially referenced as " The Blue Water Tower " due to it's proximity to a large blue water tower on the Amherst-Cheektowaga town line.

Orchomenus is also referenced as the " Minyean Orchomenus " in order to distinguish the city from the " Arcadian Orchomenus ", the latter of which was located in Arcadia near the modern town of Kalpaki.