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 2006, Bo Diddley participated as the headliner of a grassroots organized fundraiser concert, to benefit the town of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, which had been devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

They attempted to declare independence, causing a fire to break out in Pointe-à-Pitre that devastated a third of the town.

* 1904 – Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10, 000 people homeless and one person dead.

The town, devastated in the preceding Battle of Kolberg, was rebuilt but lost its status as the regional center to the nearby Koszalin.

A major earthquake devastated Gallipoli ( modern Gelibolu ) two years later and Orhan's son Süleyman Paşa occupied the town, giving the Ottomans a strong bridgehead into mainland Europe.

* In the 1950 western Stars in My Crown, the town is devastated by typhoid spread by a school's well.

* April 15 – 1979 Montenegro Earthquake: A major earthquake ( 7. 0 on the Richter scale ) strikes Montenegro ( then part of Yugoslavia ) and parts of Albania, causing extensive damage to coastal areas and taking 136 lives ; the old town of Budva is devastated.

However, as a border town, its prosperity suffered after nearby areas, including Usk and Grosmont, were devastated through attacks by supporters of Owain Glyndŵr around 1405, though Monmouth itself did not come under attack.

In February 1430, the Hussites devastated Bayreuth and the town hall and churches were razed.

It is said in Herbert West — Reanimator, the town was devastated by a typhoid outbreak in 1905.

The commercial centre of the town and many residential areas were devastated.

In 1659 a fire devastated most of the town and damaged St Edmund's Church, whose original structure dated from the 12th century.

Over 200 years passed and the Mississippian Indian culture disappeared, devastated by disease, but the Indian town named Chicasa which De Soto visited was probably the ancestral home of the Chickasaws who still lived in the area when Anglo-Americans began showing up.

storm and tornado devastated the town in late 1916, destroying the original theater, a large

On 1 May 1708 the town of Holt was devastated by a fire which destroyed most of the medieval town in the matter of three hours.

In 1928, the town was devastated by a flood caused by the failure of the St. Francis Dam.

On February 2, 2007, the town was devastated by a tornado, which killed 20 people in the entire area, at least six of them in Lady Lake.

However, the town was greatly devastated by a large fire in the early forties and retains the authentic WPA Post office mural

Marengo was devastated by an F3 tornado in 2004, resulting in damage to nearly 75 percent of the town and the death of one resident.

On March 2, 2012, a tornado devastated the town of Holton and killed two people.

The town is devastated, with buildings leveled.

The history of Falmouth dates back to the 18th century but the town is perhaps best remembered over last half of the 20th century for natural disasters that have devastated the town.