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.

A tourist information office run by VisitScotland sits in the centre of town, offering free information, selling souvenirs and acting as a booking office for many of the local B & B's and hotels.

The club engages the services of a head tennis professional to run a coaching programme for the town and was crowned Tennis Wales ' Club of the Year in 2010.

Capone's mayoral candidate won by a huge margin and weeks later announced that he would run Capone out of town.

The town of Crossroads is run by a Jarl who at first does not admit the player, but later ( on up to three occasions ) provides advice and rewards.

No railway has ever run to Dartmouth, but the town does have a railway station, although it is now a restaurant.

By allowing it to run to seed and through deliberate cultivation by the town of Dachau the canal is only still recognizable as such between Frühlingstrasse and the Pollnbach.

The characters of the town were Grandpa Twink who did little but rest in a chair, Little Jake the only child in town, Ma Jones who run the town store, Doc Haggerty, Slim Jim the bartender of the Denison saloon, Marvin Jackson the bank manager and Dan Morse the telegraphist.

Some councils, like that at Stroud, Gloucestershire and Loerrach provide approved areas round the town where graffiti artists can showcase their talents, including underpasses, car parks and walls that might otherwise prove a target for the ' spray and run.

Also, Hoover confessed that he could not run for a party whose only member in his boyhood home had been the town drunk.

Limburg ’ s residential neighbourhoods reach beyond the town limits ; the neighbouring centres of Elz and Diez run seamlessly together.

So, for instance, a tax on wages in a town will ( at least in the long run ) affect property-owners in that area.

" In September Adorno's right to teach was revoked ; in March, as the swastika was run up the flag pole of town hall, the Institute's offices were searched by the Frankfurt criminal police.

When he tried to get compensated by insurance, his arson and fraud were discovered ; and he was run off by a group of town vigilantes ..

He is able to coax " Tom " to come back, and they run desperately back for their boat to leave town.

Gripp decides to run, driving across Mars to another tiny town to spend his life alone, ceasing all contact with Genevieve.

Several major routes run through the town including the A456 which runs from Birmingham to Woofferton, Shropshire, a few miles south of Woofferton, the A451 which runs from Stourbridge to Abberley, the A442 which runs from Droitwich to Hodent, Shropshire, a few miles north of Telford, the A449 road which runs from Newport in south Wales to Stafford and crosses the A456 at the Land Oak, and the A448 road which starts in the town and goes to Bromsgrove.

Regular bus services run between the town and Hereford, Ross-on-Wye, Coleford, Chepstow, Newport and Abergavenny.

There is a legend that during the mid-17th century irregular military conflicts of rural France, the peasants of the Southern French town of Bayonne, having run out of powder and shot, rammed their long-bladed hunting knives into the muzzles of their primitive muskets to fashion impromptu spears and, by necessity, created an ancillary weapon.

The Verulamium Museum is a sizeable museum run by the district council in Verulamium Park ( adjacent to St Michael's Church ) which contains much information about the town, both as a Roman and Iron Age settlement, plus Roman history in general.

* " Larry the Liquidator ", Other People's Money ( 1990 ) – A self-absorbed corporate raider " Larry the Liquidator " ( Danny DeVito ), sets his sights on New England Wire and Cable, a small-town business run by family patriarch Gregory Peck who is principally interested in protecting his employees and the town.

There are, nominally, three theatres run by the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company, which attract large audiences and income for the town.

The other roads around the town are small and run across the levels generally following the drainage ditches.