City

Examples

• I begged a fortnight's grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Mounting, Sola upon one beast, and Dejah Thoris behind me upon the other, we rode from the city of Thark through the hills to the south. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Five days' journey from here--say two hundred miles--are the ruins of an ancient city, of whose history there is neither record nor tradition. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• There was something to the English peculiarly attractive in the idea of this wave-encircled, island-enthroned city. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He pictured the town emancipated from its ugliness and its cruelty--a beautiful city for free men and women. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But at my age I can hardly get to the city, and therefore you should come oftener to the Piraeus. Plato. The Republic.
• The _cable car_ is a factor which has cut no small figure in the activities of city life. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• You can beat Tammany Hall permanently in one way--by making the government of a city as human, as kindly, as jolly as Tammany Hall. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Take the horses into the City! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• In the first place, are they not free; and is not the city full of freedom and frankness--a man may say and do what he likes? Plato. The Republic.
• It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the great city. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The swiftness with which the papers displaced the gruesome details of the little girl's death by exultation over the business future of the city was a caution. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Convinced of his security from Persia, Pericles spent the war hoard of the allies upon the beautification of his city. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The city of Messina, milk-white, and starred and spangled all over with gaslights, was a fairy spectacle. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Where does your city obtain its water? Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• 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.

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