I have brought the boat into the lakes thereof, so that I may come forth into the cities thereof, and I have sailed into their divine city Hetep.

Fullaway tells me, Mr. Allerdyke, that you come from Bradford, the big manufacturing city up north.

A lamentable sight it was to see so goodly a city so suddenly defaced, rich citizens sent a begging to Venice, Naples, Ancona, &c., that erst lived in all manner of delights.

The large, bare room, however, was still possessed by night, and the city outside was at its lowest ebb of life, almost soundless.

It was virtually a Grecian city, and the language of the leading people was Greek.

The termination fou is merely city; and other terminations are used by the Chinese, as tcheou and others, to denote the rank or class in which they are placed, in regard to the subordination of their governors and tribunals, which will be explained in that part of our work which is appropriated to the empire of China.

As its scope broadened geographically city survival depended increasingly on wealth and power (money and weapons).

Meantime the whole city, we are informed, has been converted into a vast place of execution.

The City of Salisbury, or officially, New Sarum, is a regularly built, spacious and clean county capital that would be of interest and attraction if there were no glorious cathedral to grace and adorn it.

The encircling hills behind, which are strongly fortified, form a fine background to the picturesquely laid-out city.

[-8-] Much disturbance was created by the contest over this very point, and at last Milo himself collected some gladiators and others who desired the same objects as he did and kept continually coming to blows with Clodius, so that fatal conflicts took place throughout practically the entire city.

"It seems to me that the game should be alternated between the contending cities regardless of ties.

Second, those cities like Venice and Ravenna, which, by means of a connection with the sea which the invaders could not cut off, were enabled to gain supplies by water, and so resist all efforts of the besieging host to capture them.

Strong fortresses were built on Lebanon to protect the caravans, and Tadmor in the wilderness to the east became a great centre of trade, and ultimately a splendid city under Zenobia.

Zurich is, at the present time, undoubtedly the most important commercial city in Switzerland, having distanced both Basel and Geneva in this direction.

In ancient timesthat is to say, upward of three centuries agothe city of Augsburg was probably the most populous and consequential in the kingdom of Bavaria.

Vainly the city reeks with toasted cheese, and the Commissary-General reports himself short of arsenic.

The language of the Baschirs and of the Hungarians is the same, and they are all shepherds, having no cities; and their land is bounded on the west by the Greater Bulgaria; from which country eastwards, in these northern parts, there are no cities whatsoever, so that the Greater Bulgaria is the last country which possesses towns and cities.

On arriving yesterday at a district pertaining to Chingtoo city, I met with a maiden, daughter of one Wongchang.

Yonder is the city whereof, in time past, a wise astrologer prophesied concerning me, telling me that I should die there; but I swear to you that I care but little for dying there, if, when I die, my corpse be left with endless glory and renown throughout the world."

He that has once beheld cities so cleanly and large, never after Ceases his own native city, though small it may be, to embellish.

Had McClellan massed his whole force in column, and advanced it against any point of our line of battle, as was done at Austerlitz under similar circumstances by the greatest captain of any age, though the head of his column would have suffered greatly, its momentum would have insured him success, and the occupation of our works about Richmond, and consequently the city, might have been his reward.

I acted as he advised me, and no sooner moved my eagle's wing, than a great light came all around me, and I saw everything as clear as possible: looking down to earth, I beheld distinctly cities and men, and everything that passed amongst them; not only what they did openly, but whatever was going on at home, and in their own houses, where they thought to conceal it.

Oxford is the city east of the sun and west of the moonlike as a dream when one awaketh!

The same remark is applicable in a certain extent to the cities eastward of the former, and as to the condition of the whole country southward of the latter the events which mark the war are too recent to require detail.