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.

The town was substantially damaged by an earthquake in 1881, and only partially retains its original character.

He had a substantially more important part as Hector, the small town hood in Bad Day at Black Rock ( 1955 ) with Spencer Tracy.

With the opening of the commercial retail area of " Weaver's Wharf " in March 2004, the town centre area had been substantially redeveloped.

The turning point in Madison's development was the university's 1954 decision to develop its experimental farm on the western edge of town ; since then, the city has grown substantially along suburban lines.

With Ulster's industry now substantially defunct, the town began to attract instead financial investment from shopping and tourism.

In the 1960s the town was designated to build substantially large residential areas, to overcome the housing shortage in the region.

The town did not grow substantially beyond this initial purpose.

NH 135 runs through the town, substantially parallel to the river, linking Monroe to Littleton to the north and Bath to the south.

The town grew substantially in the next four decades.

In the spring of 2006 some residents brought in B. Thomas Golisano, founder of Paychex, who expressed willingness to provide money to begin a competing wind farm which would give substantially more benefits ; specifically, the PILOT and payments to the landowners would be the same as or better than what was being offered by Airtricity, and residents of the town would receive part of the profits derived from the wind farm.

Afterwards, the town was substantially reduced in size by the formation of other towns, including Reading ( 1806 ), Orange ( 1813 ) and Barrington, and Tyrone ( 1822 ).

This substantially reduced the number of tourists who came to the town by train.

In 1879, the first passenger train arrived to the town, substantially increasing the growth and commerce.

The town was once primarily a fishing village, but has grown substantially in modern time, along with the rest of the Grand Strand into a popular tourist and retirement location.

By 1914, the town had grown substantially, and had acquired two hotels, a bank, a doctor's office, and many more amenities.

As far as we can determine, neither Frank nor any member of his family actually ever lived in the namesake town, but his brother, Samuel G. Wilkeson, invested substantially in coal companies that operated there ...

The eastern sections of the town were substantially damaged by shelling, and the nearby village of Cerić was almost completely destroyed.

The heavy traffic which previously travelled through the town has been substantially relieved by the A42 and A511 bypasses, which replaced the A453 and A50 respectively.

The economy of Brigg is substantially retail and service based, according with its traditional position of a market town, and acts as a service centre for the surrounding rural area.

Detractors of the Great Central point out that Lutterworth was the only town along its whole route not previously served directly by another line, and that the Great Central's presence had no real effect on the town, since it remained at roughly the same size throughout the line's existence, only growing substantially since the line's closure on 5 May 1969.

The town centre was developed substantially in the early 20th century, with the construction of many entertainment venues including a theatre and cinemas, with two indoor shopping centres being added later in the century.

That settlement was thus substantially enlarged with official buildings and housing and renamed Rabaul, meaning mangrove in Kuanua ( the local language ) as the new town was partially built on a reclaimed mangrove swamp.