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.

In 1854, the new railroad from Fernandina to Cedar Key bypassed Newnansville, and Gainesville, a new town that was located on the railroad, began to draw business and residents away from Newnansville.

West Lebanon was the only other settlement near the railroad's path, but the line bypassed it by about a mile ; the town subsequently moved northward to be nearer the station.

Williams was the last town to have its section of Route 66 bypassed, due to lawsuits that kept the last section of Interstate 40 in Arizona from being built around the town.

When the railroad bypassed Hardyville, it quickly became a ghost town until the construction of the Davis Dam.

When I-40 bypassed the town soon after, the local economy never fully recovered.

" before the town was bypassed and the original route was decommissioned.

Almost as soon as the town established itself as a commercial center larger, even, than Westerly, however, it was quickly bypassed by the effects of the Industrial Revolution, which favored larger towns astride similarly larger rivers to erect huge mills.

A fire burnt the town in 1904 and shortly thereafter the Camas Prairie Railroad bypassed the town and started a settlement of its own, a mile east and called " Vollmer ", on the northeast side of the railroad tracks.

When the Chicago St Paul Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad laid tracks in 1899 and bypassed the town, the townspeople moved themselves and their city to a favorable spot on the railroad line.

In recent years, Minnesota State Highway 60, which once passed directly through town, was upgraded to four-lanes, and bypassed Bigelow entirely.

However, the residents of the southern portion of the county voted overwhelmingly against the bond issue in an 1871 election: they were displeased at having been bypassed by an earlier railroad line, anticipated no benefits from the new line, and were angry with Seward, which had won the county seat away from the southern town of Milford.

In 1927, U. S. Highway 91 bypassed the town, and its population dropped to 50.

Once a thriving farm community which was disappointed when bypassed by railroads, the town in 1876 established the Deerfield Fair.

But the new route bypassed the center of town, built on either side of an ancient Squamscot Indian trail.

While the canal was supplanted by the railroads, the town was bypassed by the trains.

The railroad, developed in the 1840s, bypassed the town of Somers, and affected a decline in growth over the next hundred years.

The railroad bypassed the town by three-fourths of a mile, so the citizens moved their businesses closer to the railroad.

In 1903 the Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad ( later the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway ) bypassed the nearby town of Violet Springs.

When the base closed and Interstate 40 bypassed Foss the town declined further.

Long the major town in central Oregon, Prineville was snubbed in 1911 when the railroad tycoons James J. Hill and Edward H. Harriman bypassed the city as they laid track south from The Dalles.

When the railroad line was built from Knoxville through Cumberland Gap in the late 1880s, it bypassed the town of Tazewell.

The 1880s marked the town's brightest age, with the building of the courthouse, Mary Hardin Baylor buildings, and a " railroad war " in which, by 1881, Belton was bypassed by the railroad which built Temple, Texas as the local junction and depot town.

The population grew to a high of 600, with several businesses and a high school In 1920, however, the railroad line was abandoned, and other railroads bypassed the town.