In China it was a baby sitting on a railroad platform, smudged, blood-specked, with the village burning about him and shells exploding.

After a year in a studio on Sheridan Square, having married an American girl who was a native of Virginia, Helion moved to a village in the Blue Ridge mountains, where he produced some of the most imposing of his abstract canvases.

This showed that common sense had not died out at the county and village level -- though why the unhappy and obviously unbalanced woman was not restrained remains a puzzle.

Finally we got them out of the house, after the boy had run away four times looking for other Nazis, threatening to murder village schoolchildren and bragging that he was to be the next Fuhrer.

His first move was to send Hino to the village to spend a few days.

In any event Rector sent him to the local hospital to have it checked, telling him to keep his ears open while he was in the village to see if he could find out what Kayabashi was planning.

When the telephone rang on the day after Hino went down to the village, Rector had a hunch it would be Hino with some morsel of information too important to wait until his return, for there were few telephones in the village and the phone in Rector's office rarely rang unless it was important.

His father Soeren was the village apothecary whose slender income made it difficult to feed his family, let alone educate them in a town without even a school.

They had been kind to us and we were indebted to them for one or two pleasant dinners, and for information as to where to shop, which dentist, doctor, plumber, and sitter to call ( not that there was much of a choice, since Catatonia was just a village ; ;

In the morning the fog was still thick so that to go to the village I crept along with my headlights full on.

This meant that the land around a village was rented from a landlord.

The village was completely abandoned which is where the name ' Deserted Village ' came from.

This village was deserted in 1855 when the tenants were evicted by the local landlord so the land could be used for cattle grazing, the tenants were forced to rent holdings in Currane, Dooega and Slievemore.

It was during his early trips to Achill prior to the outbreak of World War I that Henri painted extensively and is reputed to have done portraits of almost all the children in Dooagh village.

Due to the crowded nature of Rome at the time, Octavius was taken to his father's home village at Velletri to be raised.

Alfred Wallace was born in the Welsh village of Llanbadoc, near Usk, Monmouthshire.

Finally a deal was reached in 1881 and the Ainu decided to settle in the village of Yavin.

Another village, Golygino was founded later.

In legend, Amarynthus ( a form of Amarantus ) was a hunter of Artemis and king of Euboea ; in a village of Amarynthus, of which he was the eponymous hero, there was a famous temple of Artemis Amarynthia or Amarysia ( Strabo x.

The child was born at Treveri, near the village of Ambitarvium, just before the junction of the Moselle River and the Rhine River ( modern Koblenz Germany ).

The character Miss Marple, for instance, dealt with an estimated two murders a year ; De Andrea has described Marple's home town, the quiet little village of St. Mary Mead as having " put on a pageant of human depravity rivaled only by that of Sodom and Gomorrah ".

** The village of Gdingen had some 1, 200 inhabitants, and it was not a poor fishing village as it is sometimes described.

The Taliban differed from other Islamist movements to the point where they might be more properly described as Islamic fundamentalist or neofundamentalist, interested in spreading " an idealized and systematized version of village customs to an entire country.

Zygmunt Gloger in his work Historical geography of land of ancient Poland ( Geografia historyczna ziem dawnej Polski ) states that according to a Polish custom, whenever a new village was formed next to an older one, the name of the new entity was presented with an adjective little ( or lesser ), while the old village was described as greater.

Together with her siblings Lazarus and Martha, she is described as living in the village of Bethany near Jerusalem.

In a short article, Geoffrey W. Arnott described an Oromo rite of passage in which young men run over the backs of bulls surrounded by the village community.

The scholar Ling Tinkang ( 1757 – 1809 ) described the author as an ' ignorant village master '.

The Jerusalem geographer al-Muqaddasi, writing in 985 described the town as follows :' Habra ( Hebron ) is the village of Abraham al-Khalil ( the Friend of God )... Within it is a strong fortress ... being of enormous squared stones.

Xenophon described the odd behavior of Greek soldiers after having consumed honey in a village surrounded by Rhododendron ponticum during the march of the Ten Thousand in 401 BC.

In 1877 a U. S. Army lieutenant described the village as " the center of the Mexican population of northwestern New Mexico ".

Llandaff never developed into a chartered borough, and by the nineteenth century was described as reduced to a mere village ...

Okhotsk's inhabitants described the winter as the worst they could recall ; Bering seized flour from the local villagers to ensure that his party too could take advantage of their stocks and consequently the whole village soon faced the threat of starvation.

The grievances have been described by one historian as a shopping-list of demands but which nevertheless have a strong logic underlying them, articulating " a desire to limit the power of the gentry, exclude them from the world of the village, constrain rapid economic change, prevent the overexploitation of communal resources, and remodel the values of the clergy ".

* A real or a fictitious village in Ireland, described by the Irish poet Oliver Goldsmith in his poem " The Deserted Village " ( 1770 ).

In one old tale said to originate from the village of Mumby in the Lincolnshire countryside, the boggart is described as being rather squat, hairy and smelly.

The name occurs twice ; at the first mention Shamgar is identified as a Biblical Judge, who repelled Philistine incursions into Israelite regions, and slaughtered 600 of the invaders with an ox goad, the other mention is within the Song of Deborah, where Shamgar is described as having been one of the prior rulers, in whose days roads were abandoned, with travelers taking winding paths, and village life collapsing.

The famous and pivotal scene described in Chapter 10, in which Pilar describes the execution of various fascist figures in her village is drawn from events that took place in Ronda in 1936.

A village named until 1920 Vasiliko ( described by the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica as " insignificant ") now occupies the site.

By 1849, it was described as a recently increased suburban village, with some handsome old houses, and by 1859 the village had exceeded its neighbour and with the railways and continuous building, the village of Kingsland disappeared.

In the 1870s Plaistow was described by John Marius Wilson in his Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales as a village, a chapelry and a ward in the Parish of West Ham in Essex.

Horning is picturesque, and described as the prettiest village on the broads.