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.

`` We didn't want town work '', Jones said.

He said to the Secretary, `` I understand you came from a little Pennsylvania town near Wilkes-Barre.

The Smithfield tax assessor, in turn, claims the tax under the provision of law `` and all other tangible personal property situated or being in any town, in or upon any place of storage shall be taxed to such person in the town where said property is situated ''.

To summarize, it may be said that there is no one prevailing practice in Rhode Island with respect to the taxation of movable property, that assessors would like to see an improvement, and of those who have an opinion, that assessment by the town of location is preferred on the basis of their present knowledge.

She told police about the prospective tenant she had heard quarreling with her father some weeks before the murders, but she said she thought he was from out of town because she heard him mention something about talking to his partner.

The item said Mr. and Mrs. Black had moved to Jackson, his home town -- so the lovely Lisa had been with him a year ago.

Mr. Martinelli has, in recent weeks, been of the opinion that a special town meeting would be called for the vote, while Mr. Bourcier said that a special election might be called instead.

Louis H. Grenier, clerk of the board, said that the appeals will be reviewed in December at the time the board is visiting new construction sites in the town for assessment purposes.

It was said to have been named after the Greek town of Aegae, or after Aegea, a queen of the Amazons who died in the sea, or Aigaion, the " sea goat ", another name of Briareus, one of the archaic Hecatonchires, or, especially among the Athenians, Aegeus, the father of Theseus, who drowned himself in the sea when he thought his son had died.

Rieux is like a witness who exercises restraint when called to testify about a crime ; he describes what the characters said and did, without speculating about their thoughts and feelings, although he does offer generalized assessments of the shifting mood of the town as a whole.

Della Valle described Anah as the chief Arab town on the Euphrates, an importance which it owes to its position on one of the routes from the west to Baghdad ; Texeira said that the power of its amir extended to Palmyra ( early 17th century ); but Olivier found the ruling prince with only twenty-five men in his service, the town becoming more depopulated every day from lack of protection from the Arabs of the desert.

He was said to have been born in c. 525 BC in Eleusis, a small town about 27 kilometers northwest of Athens, which is nestled in the fertile valleys of western Attica, though the date is most likely based on counting back forty years from his first victory in the Great Dionysia.

Victor Hugo found the town so beautiful he once said: " take Versailles, add Antwerp, and you have Bordeaux ".

-- Hergeir, the faithful servant of the Lord, was angry with them and said, -- " They will lead away your wives and sons as captives, they will burn our city ( urbs ) and town ( vicus ) and will destroy you with the sword --"" ( Chapter XIX )

Another condition of the cession was that " no leave shall be given under any pretence whatsoever, either to Jews or Moors, to reside or have their dwellings in the said town of Gibraltar.

In 1517 the Reformation began with the publication of Martin Luther's 95 Theses ; he had posted them in the town square, and gave copies of them to German nobles, but it is debated whether he nailed them to the church door in Wittenberg as is commonly said.

It is now said to be the farthest large town from a railway station in the United Kingdom.

The town of Kalat is said to have been founded by and named Qalat-e Sewa ( Sewa's Fort ), after Sewa, a legendary hero of the Brahui people.

Reagan describes lunching with former Democratic National Committee chairman Robert Strauss, wherein Strauss said to her, " When you first came to town, Nancy, I didn't like you at all.

"… they are obliged to live in a separate part of town …; for they are considered as unclean creatures … Under the pretext of their being unclean, they are treated with the greatest severity and should they enter a street, inhabited by Mussulmans, they are pelted by the boys and mobs with stones and dirt … For the same reason, they are prohibited to go out when it rains ; for it is said the rain would wash dirt off them, which would sully the feet of the Mussulmans … If a Jew is recognized as such in the streets, he is subjected to the greatest insults.

King responded later that day, saying, " That a right-wing-blog would impugn my patriotism because I said children should learn to read, and could get better jobs by doing so, is beneath contempt ... I live in a national guard town, and I support our troops, but I don ’ t support either the war or educational policies that limit the options of young men and women to any one career — military or otherwise.

Gougers are said to have migrated to the west from New England, a feat accomplished by a pair of gougers who clung to each other in a fashion comparable to, " a pair of drunks going home from town " with their longer legs on the outer sides.