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.

Also to the northeast is the town of Porto de Mós with its fanciful rebuilt castle.

Also to the south is the town of Porto de Mós with its fanciful rebuilt castle.

No houses in the town date from before the 17th century, the town having been rebuilt after the fire of 1628.

The Nile enters Egypt a few kilometres north of Wadi Halfa, a Sudanese town that was completely rebuilt on high ground when its original site was submerged in the reservoir created by the Aswan High Dam.

In 1771 and again in 1775 the town of St. George, which was constructed solely of wood, was burnt to the ground-after which it was sensibly rebuilt using stone and brick.

The town council set about a huge rebuilding project, among which the promenade was rebuilt ; and an Olympic-size bathing pool was erected.

Built mainly of wood, it was destroyed during the revolt of Boudica in AD 60-61, but was rebuilt and grew to feature many impressive town houses and public buildings.

The town was rebuilt and the citadel was constructed.

In 1179, the Crusaders rebuilt the Monastery of St. George of Koziba, at its original site six miles from the center of town.

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

After 1965 most parts of the preserved old town with its precious town houses were demolished, the historical layout was abolished, and the city was rebuilt in modern forms.

On 14 May 1289, a devastating fire wiped out great parts of the inner town, although these were subsequently rebuilt.

Following the fall of Tenochtitlán in late 1521 and the birth of her son Don Martín Cortés in 1522, Marina stayed in a house Cortés built for her in the town of Coyoacán, 8 miles south of Tenochtitlán, while it was being rebuilt as Mexico City.

Edith loved the town and often lived there ; at her death she was buried in the crypt of the Benedictine abbey of Saint Maurice, later rebuilt as the cathedral.

* Festung Mark – Part of the former town fortification, now rebuilt for party's and conventions

French settlers lodged themselves in the ruins of the town of Dieppe, which they rebuilt.

* The Old Town Hall, begun in 1274, extended and rebuilt between 1391 and 1399, and extended at the end of the 16th century ; one of the most monumental town halls in Central Europe

Near the town centre is the rebuilt St George's church.

In the Costa Rican province of Guanacaste, the town of Arenal was rebuilt to make room for the man-made Lake Arenal.

With government help, the whole town was rebuilt away.

Cities such as Enkomi were rebuilt on a rectangular grid plan, where the town gates correspond to the grid axes and numerous grand buildings front the street system or newly founded.

In 2008-2009 Wildwood, New Jersey rebuilt a section of their boardwalk using ipê, the town had pledged to use domestic black locust, but it was not available in time.

Highway bridges, rebuilt a mile below town on the Potomac and a mile above on the Shenandoah, routed traffic around the town and the population declined.