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.

This may have provided the initial impetus for the town to develop.

" However, on its initial release in the UK, the film was banned by several town councils – some of which had no cinemas within their boundaries, or had not even seen the film.

In 1231, Ertuğrul conquered the Nicean ( Byzantine ) town of Thebasion, which was renamed to Söğüt and became the initial capital of his territory.

The town was originally known in Welsh as Abermynwy (" mouth of the Monnow "), replaced by Trefynwy (" Monnow town " – the initial m of Mynwy mutating in Welsh to f ) by the 17th century.

After some initial successes, the unexpected surrender of the strategically important town of Grave was a serious blow to English morale.

The initial creation of the town council was opposed by Portsmouth City Council.

As a royal town, the city managed to defend much of its initial privileges and in 1426 a new town hall was built.

He designed the hotel and around 200 of the initial homes built in the town.

The turn of the 20th century saw the layout of the initial town streets.

The geography and lack of traditional center can be best understood by remembering after its initial founding, Pomfret was expanded southward significantly, first around Mortlake, later absorbing the town.

Haan Crafts, the Frontier Machine Company and the Kerkhoff Truss Plant were the initial occupants in the Industrial Park at the east edge of town which is actually in Tippecanoe County.

The initial town orientation was succeeded by one that placed Main Street in a north-south direction.

Twenty-four years later, after the initial founding, in February 1909, the early day residents of " Old " Ulysses began moving the remains of the town to its present location.

The initial population of the town was " about 700 " as detailed in the official surveyors description.

Residents of the area were not happy with Greenfield's initial layout and petitioned the General Assembly to have the town replatted.

Since its initial conception the town has changed quite a bit.

Named Roger's Plantation and later Rowley after the English town, the initial settlement comprised sixty families.

" The initial proposals had been made in the late 18th century, but determined resistance from the town of Newbury, which had already lost Newburyport, blocked the measure for decades.

A 1737 owners list names the initial land owners, few of whom appear to have remained to settle the town once it was incorporated in 1763.

The town did not grow substantially beyond this initial purpose.

Following the great flood of 1785, the town moved from its initial location on the floodplain of the Mississippi River, to its present location two miles north and about a half mile inland.

Homesteaders moving into the American West created the initial settlements that grew into what is now the town of Edgewood.