`` Little Rock is, without any flattery, one of the dullest towns in the United States and I would not have remained two hours in the place, if I had not met with some good friends who made me forget its dreariness ''.

When, in March, 1640, the two towns were united under Coddington, Gorton claimed the union was irregular and illegally constituted and that it had never been sanctioned by the majority of freeholders.

Fortunately, there are no cities or towns in the state, with one or two possible exceptions that are in too difficult a position to finance the proposed change.

This eliminated toll calls between the two towns.

Alfred's military reorganisation of Wessex consisted of three elements: the building of thirty fortified and garrisoned towns ( burhs ) along the rivers and Roman roads of Wessex ; the creation of a mobile ( horsed ) field force, consisting of his nobles and their warrior retainers, which was divided into two contingents, one of which was always in the field ; and the enhancement of Wessex's seapower through the addition of larger ships to the existing royal fleet.

Leonhart Rauwolff, in AD 1574, found it " divided ... into two towns ," the one " Turkish ," " so surrounded by the river, that you cannot go into it but by boats ," the other, much larger, on the Arabian side of the river.

In 1237 and 1244 two towns, Cölln and Berlin were founded during the rule of Otto and Johann, grandsons of Margrave Albert the Bear, ( later they were united into one city, Berlin ).

In 1774, they were restricted to just two towns, Endingen and Lengnau.

(“ With So Little to be Sure Of ”) Word comes of a new miracle, two towns over, of a statue with a warm heart.

The central part of Berlin can be traced back to two towns.

The two towns over time formed close economic and social ties and eventually merged in 1307 and came to be known as Berlin.

A river island between the two towns is under Croatian control, but is claimed by Bosnia.

His colorful life and legacy of scientific and political achievement, and status as one of America's most influential Founding Fathers, have seen Franklin honored on coinage and money ; warships ; the names of many towns, counties, educational institutions, namesakes, and companies ; and more than two centuries after his death, countless cultural references.

Through the 1950s and into the 1960s the Liberals survived only because a handful of constituencies in rural Scotland and Wales clung to their Liberal traditions, whilst in two English towns, Bolton and Huddersfield, local Liberals and Conservatives agreed to each contest only one of the town's two seats.

In the strips, it is expressed that the two towns are rivals with each other and before The Dandy did a drastic format change they had an embassy in Beanotown which many of the town's citizens attempted to overrun, but failed ( the embassy had no existence in The Beano ).

A river island between the two towns is under Croatian control, but is also claimed by Bosnia.

* Kurtis Scaletta's 2009 children's novel, Mudville is about a town where it's been raining for 22 years, delaying a baseball game between two rival towns.

Castlebar and Ballina are the two most populous towns in the county, with 10, 826 for Castlebar and 10, 361 for Ballina respectively according to the 2011 census.

The civilian plane's occupants were flying between two Maryland towns and were released without charge.

There were two towns in Roman Britain named Camulodunum, Colchester in Essex, and Slack in West Yorkshire, derived from the Celtic god Camulos, and this has led to the suggestion that they originated the name.

Hadrian's temple had actually been located there because it was the junction of the main north-south road with one of the two main east-west roads and directly adjacent to the forum ( which is now the location of the ( smaller ) Muristan ); the forum itself had been placed, as is traditional in Roman towns, at the junction of the main north-south road with the ( other ) main east-west road ( which is now El-Bazar / David Street ).

'" on the competing claims of two towns to such renown: Stockton, California, and Holliston, Massachusetts.

The main towns of the two kingdoms were Rochester, for west Kent, and Canterbury, for east Kent.

In some smaller towns and in the south of France, the two hour lunch may still be customary.

A company of cavalry couldn't come in there if two men were guarding that trail ''.

After the first two murders, the warning notes were rarely ignored.

There were two horses in the barn, a sway-backed dun and Jess Crouch's buckskin.

Four cars were parked at the curb, and two of them were police radio cars.

Her glance swung past the trailer where the two drivers were standing.

These two were going to be easy pickins.

In the past, the duties of the state, as Sir Henry Maine noted long ago, were only two in number: internal order and external security.

They were camped beside a large column-shaped boulder: a man, his lubra, and two children.

There were two rubbing sticks for making fire, two stones shaped roughly like knives, a woven-root container which held a few pounds of dried worms and the dead body of some rodent.

During his two terms the Constitution was tested and found workable, strong national policies were inaugurated, and the traditions and powers of the Presidential office firmly fixed.

But the fences were still in place fifty-odd years ago, and when we stood on the gate to look over, the sidewalk under our eyes was not cement but two rows of paving stones with grass between and on both sides.

The contributors to this testament were all well-known: a former Democratic candidate for President, a New Deal poet, the magazine's chief editorial writer, two newspaper columnists, head of a national broadcasting company, a popular Protestant evangelist, etc..

There never were two fames alike.

The sickness was gone and, after all, the two young couples were on their honeymoon.

On Sundays, with the permission of Captain Heard, who usually attended with two of his officers, services were held in the double cabin.

Somewhat daunted, the two American missionaries reached the police station where they were questioned by a most unfriendly clerk.

The last two were a red and a black chow.

Actually, two flags were used at the mansion -- a small one on rainy days, and a big one on bright days.

In his own state of New York, the two Democratic bellwethers, State Leader Hill and Tammany Boss Murphy, were saying nothing openly against Hearst but industriously boosting their own favorites, Murphy being for Cleveland and Hill for Parker.

Gaunt scaffoldings adjoined the ruins, and on the ground segments of columns two and a half to three feet in thickness were being fitted with sections cunningly chiseled to match exactly the fluting and proportion of the original.

There is a mediocre restaurant at Sounion and I fed a thin little Grecian cat and gave it two saucers of water -- there was no milk -- which it lapped up as though it were nectar.

Consequently, Fred and Tom, the two who had been provided college educations, signed statements to the effect that each had received his bequest in full, and Effie and I were each allotted $5000.