The truck routes, the industrial areas with walls grimed with diesel smoke passed briefly through his mind -- back alleys were their access to a city and they could never stay.

Yes, I went to the city, And there I did bitterly cry, Men out of touch with the earth, And with never a glance at the sky.

It never registered with them that I had time to read all of Balzac, Dickens, and Stendhal while Papa was dying, not to mention everything in the city library after Mother's operation.

Despite numerous searches, the city has never been found.

Also, there was an ancient statue, representing the god in chains, to indicate that the martial spirit and victory were never to leave the city of Sparta.

Just east of Sparta stood an archaic statue of the god in chains, to show that the spirit of war and victory was never to leave the city.

Arnulf then proceeded to the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, where he received the homage of the Roman people, who swore “ never to hand over the city to Lambert or his mother Ageltrude ”.

In the late 6th century, the city re-emerged as the seat of a county and an archdiocese within the Merovingian kingdom of the Franks, but royal Frankish power was never strong.

# Building a new city ( Ezekiel 33: 1 – 48: 35 ): The Jewish exile will come to an end, a new city and new Temple will be built, and the Israelites will be gathered and blessed as never before.

It was a state of the Holy Roman Empire for some time, probably starting at 1161 / 1165, but never managed to gain control over a significant territory, being overshadowed by the Margraviate of Brandenburg, which was originally seated in the same city.

Barcelona sports club, but locals never refer to the city as ' Barça '.

After the shock of the Battle of Adrianople in 378, in which the emperor Valens with the flower of the Roman armies was destroyed by the Visigoths within a few days ' march, the city looked to its defences, and in 413 – 414, Theodosius II built the 18-meter ( 60-foot )- tall triple-wall fortifications, which were never to be breached until the coming of gunpowder.

The city itself has a large wall with twelve gates in it which are never shut, and which have the names of the twelve tribes of Israel written on them.

Since these geographic considerations imply that, not including the hill within, the walls would be willfully making the city prone to attack from it, some scholars, including the late 19th century surveyors of the Palestine Exploration Fund, consider it unlikely that a wall would ever have been built that would cut the hill off from the city in the valley ; archaeological evidence for the existence of an earlier city wall in such a location has never been found.

The Inca warrior had ordered the city to be burned and its gold to be buried at an undisclosed location where the Spanish could never find it.

He never officially founded a city in the territory of what is now present Chile.

At the time, there was little regard for historical heritage ; in the 1960s, a new city hall was built and its neo-gothic predecessor ( 1867 ) demolished to make way for a planned arterial road that never materialised.

He lost his intuitive touch during the war years, when the federal money stopped flowing in, and never realized that he had created far more infrastructure than the city could afford.

Although there have been some reports suggesting that Toronto may be one of the world's most diverse cities ( see Demographics of Toronto ), the United Nations agency has never designated any city as being the most multicultural or diverse.

" The storm mostly destroyed the city ( which has never regained its former glory ) and set back development in the region.

The Emperor Constantine Porphyrogennetos ( r. 945 – 959 ), in his book De Administrando Imperio, admonishes his son and heir, Romanos II ( r. 959 – 963 ), to never reveal the secrets of its construction, as it was " shown and revealed by an angel to the great and holy first Christian emperor Constantine " and that the angel bound him " not to prepare this fire but for Christians, and only in the imperial city ".

Despite this growth, Hilversum was never granted city rights so it is still referred to by many locals as " het dorp ," or " the village.

Karachi is also known as city of lights and the city which never sleeps.

In an allusion to " the city that never sleeps ", New York will be recognized.

Later on, when he happened upon friend and soon-to-be fellow band member Ray Manzarek, he uttered the memorable lines, " Let's swim to the moon, let's climb through the tide, penetrate the evening that the city sleeps to hide.

The Movida people coined the now famous war-cries of the city: " Madrid nunca duerme " (" Madrid never sleeps "), " Esta noche todo el mundo a la calle " (" Tonight everybody in the street ") or " Madrid me mata " (" Madrid kills me ").

A number of bars are contemplating closing at the required time and during internationally-promoted events such as Gay Pride Week in protest of the city's underhanded hypocrisy in promoting itself as " the city that never sleeps " while at the same time fining the very establishments that make it such a hot tourist mecca.

Near the city is the Parque Nacional de Tingo María of 180 km² () that preserves nature and a curious limestone mountain range in the shape of a woman that sleeps, that is called " The Sleeping Beauty " (" La bella durmiente ").

* Matto, also known as the city that never sleeps.

The city Madurai in Tamilnadu, India never sleeps.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

When, in my enthusiasm, I proposed the party, my city editor ( who disliked the club and many of its members ) tried to block my participation in the gala event.

The city was a center of manufacture, especially in textiles, and also because of the beauty of some of its surroundings, a residence for many owners of the great industries in north Alabama.

The trends have been in evidence for many years -- population shifts to the Southwest and Far West, and from city to suburbs.

Despite the opposition of the city newspapers, the Pratt Hall meeting `` brought together a very respectable audience, composed in part of those who had been distinguished for years for their radical views upon the subject of slavery, of many of our colored citizens, and of those who were attracted to the place by the novelty of such a gathering ''.

Davis commenced his remarks by an allusion to the general feeling of opposition which the meeting had encountered from many of the citizens and all the newspapers of the city.

But they deny the values of the city -- the crowded, competitive, tolerant city, the `` melting pot '' which gave off so many of the most admirable American qualities.

Only a radical change in the nature of the population in the central city would be likely to destroy this preference -- and we must now turn our attention to the question of whether such a change, gloomily foreseen by so many urban diagnosticians, is actually upon us.

The gentle Channing, revered by all Bostonians, orthodox or Unitarian, wrote to a friend in Louisville that among its many virtues Boston did not abound in a tolerant spirit, that the yoke of opinion crushed individuality of judgment and action: `` No city in the world is governed so little by a police, and so much by mutual inspections and what is called public sentiment.

According to the Gospel of Matthew, at the death of Jesus tombs were opened, and at his resurrection many saints who had died emerged from their tombs and went into " the holy city ", presumably New Jerusalem.

aspects of the project, fined the owners for many infractions of building codes, ordered the demolition of aspects exceeding the height standard for the city.

While in the city, there are many buses and taxi services one can take to get from place to place, but most of the locals choose to walk to their destinations.

The word acropolis literally in Greek means " city on the extremity " and though associated primarily with the Greek cities Athens, Argos, Thebes, and Corinth ( with its Acrocorinth ), may be applied generically to all such citadels, including Rome, Jerusalem, Celtic Bratislava, many in Asia Minor, or even Castle Rock in Edinburgh.

Remembered as a notable administrator, Afonso III founded several towns, granted the title of city to many others and reorganized public administration.

In the east and west extremes of the city the two acropoleis are situated, where a number of tombs have been found, many of which are intact.

After the capture of the city in June, 1098, and the subsequent siege led by Kerbogha, Adhemar organized a procession through the streets, and had the gates locked so that the Crusaders, many of whom had begun to panic, would be unable to desert the city.

During the ensuing 15 years, many countercultural and New Left enterprises sprang up and developed large constituencies within the city.

Nuremberg was then an important and prosperous city, a centre for publishing and many luxury trades.

The construction boom has raised many environmental concerns and both the local autonomous government and city council are under scrutiny by the European Union.

Eight years have passed, and the city of Genoa is still trying to recover from the many damages provoked by the rioters, mainly devoted to crash cars, setting stores on fire, robbing banks and using any heavy or pointed object as a means to provoke damage to people and objects.

Although Atlanta ’ s lack of bike lanes may deter many residents from cycling, the city ’ s transportation plan calls for the construction of 226 miles of bike lanes by 2020, with the BeltLine helping to achieve this goal.

It is unclear how the symbol of a particular goddess ( one of many ) would have been transferred to the city itself.

One of the incidents which led to the creation of the Basel Convention was the Khian Sea waste disposal incident, in which a ship carrying incinerator ash from the city of Philadelphia in the United States after having dumped half of its load on a beach in Haiti, was forced away where it sailed for many months, changing its name several times.