Cities

Examples

• Hundreds of cities and millions of dollars have been thus saved from destruction. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He had it written up for the newspapers, and advertised public demonstrations of its powers, and arranged that Bell should lecture on it in different cities. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The lines, she said, were waterways; the circles, cities; and one far to the northwest of us she pointed out as Helium. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• We do that way in our cities. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Encouraged by these disasters of the imperial power, the Ionian cities in Asia began for a second time to revolt against the Persians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We do not look in great cities for our best morality. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Many great cities and plains and deserts have been provided with these wells owing to the ease with which they can now be sunk. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This Atticus had an immense fortune, and he amused himself by huge architectural benefactions to various cities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There were a few lighters and barges, but none of the great merchantmen such as ply the upper air between the cities of the outer world. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• It seems probable that in the Athenian population among all the Greek cities the pre-Aryan strain was unusually strong. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Not only were the cities outwardly more splendidly built, but within the homes of the wealthy there had been great advances in the art of decoration. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The passengers do not turn out at unseasonable hours, as they used to, to get the earliest possible glimpse of strange foreign cities. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Cities situated in plains and remote from mountains are obliged to utilize the water of such streams as flow through the land, forcing it to the necessary height by means of pumps. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Her picturesque form no longer looms above the desert of the Dead Sea to remind the tourist of the doom that fell upon the lost cities. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• So Athens was disliked and envied by her own empire; her disasters were not felt and shared as disasters by her subject-cities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We shall travel many thousands of miles after we leave here and visit many great cities, but we shall find none so enchanting as this. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Acetylene is seldom used in large cities, but it is very widely used in small communities and is particularly convenient in more or less remote summer residences. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• She's bad enough as it is, with her dreams and her methodee fancies, and her visions of cities with goulden gates and precious stones. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• By March, 1881, there were in the United States only nine cities of more than ten thousand inhabitants, and only one of more than fifteen thousand, without a telephone exchange. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• These two armies, and the cities covered and defended by them, were the main objective points of the campaign. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• A private expedition to make excavations among the ruined cities of Central America is, it seems, about to sail from Liverpool. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The Western Union Company followed the stage-coach across the plains to California, and soon the frontier towns were linked to the large cities of the East. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The Jews were already a people dispersed in many lands and cities, when their minds and hopes were unified and they became an exclusive people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• My master, finding how profitable I was likely to be, resolved to carry me to the most considerable cities of the kingdom. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• There were other cities closer, but she said she feared to enter many of them, as they were not all friendly toward Helium. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• And at first the Greek cities of the mainland of Asia paid the tribute and shared in this Persian Peace. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The cities of Italy seem to have been the first in Europe which were raised by commerce to any considerable degree of opulence. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In the course of a century or two, several of them appear to have rivalled, and even to have surpassed, their mother cities. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He reigned for seven years, and he reduced most of the Ionian cities of Asia Minor to subjection. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He had seen, amidst Italian cities and scenes, faces like Moore's; he had heard, in Parisian cafés and theatres, voices like his. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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