Which preposition to use with town
The next time we aimed at landing near the town of Alamatua, which stands, as you may see, a little to the right of us, upon an island in a lake, and looks like an emerald set in silver.
They refer to the work of missionaries in the far north, one of whom has lately travelled a thousand miles over the snow in a dog-sled: "He who follows that mining crowd must be more than the minister, who would do well for towns in the west or elsewhere in Alaska.
She verbally replied to it through Fatima; and stated, in her justification, that she was hurried from Benares to a town on the river, whence she was rapidly transported to the castle of Omrah, who had not long before lost his wife, and who was more than four times her age.
"But suppose the Board will not let me go into the jungle, wouldn't you be willing to come back to Duke Town with me?" asked Charles.
The substance of the earth is constantly taking new shape before our eyes, being rearranged in kaleidoscopic combinations, and transported from port to port, from town to town, from sea to sea.
"You must go to Duke Town for a longer rest," said the doctor.
They worked chiefly in Duke Town, Old Town, and Creek Townthree towns at the mouth of the Calabar River.
The whole garrison won the regard of the town by giving up part of their rations for the hungry poor; while the habitants from the surrounding country presently began to find out that the British were honest to deal with and most humane, though sternly just, as conquerors.
"Mr. Cumberland,"the district attorney was very serious,"this hat and this coat, old as they are, were worn into town from your house that night.
"Well, I guess this place is too small for a fellow and a girl that can follow him around town like alike" She sat forward, grasping the table-sides, her chair tilting with her. "Don't you dare to get up and leave me sitting here!
You chose the wealthy sons of the super-rich, who were glad to know such popular men-about-town as Harold Melville and Edgar Ford.
"Honest, can't a girl go home from work in this town without one of you fellows getting fresh with her?" "All right, then; I'll buy you a supper.
" "You know as well as I do," said Dr. Webb, "that the company expects to make money by selling lands and town lots; and as you are not disposed to give the company a show, or share with me, I shall probably have to start another town near you.
" "Mr. Shelton," Mr. Penfield went on, regardless of the interruption, "we warned you yesterday to leave the town before nightfall, and you have failed to take our advice.
The genius of her leaders gathered the lesser towns into a great naval league, in which she grew ever more powerful.
I shall enjoy these weeks in a quiet country town after the bustle of the big city.
They decided that Mary would be safer in Creek Town than Akpap.
With the aid of some of our infantry it gained possession of the town about midday, driving the enemy to the north.
That base man, BARNUM, had taken plaster casts of the old rock, and there wasen't a town along the coast, but what had its 'original Plymouth Rock.'
The great sun sinks behind the town Through a red mist of Volnay wine....
Then followed the memorable dispute, in 1472-1473, over the bishopric of Pisa, when the Pope's nominee, Francesco Salviati, was refused possession of his see, Pisa being one of the Tuscan towns under the control of Florence.
One of Carleton's first acts was to proclaim that every able-bodied man refusing to bear arms was to leave the town within four days.
The New Zealanders made Jaffa by noon on the 16th, the Turks evacuating the town during the morning without making any attempt to destroy it, though there was one gross piece of vandalism in a Christian cemetery where monuments and tombstones had been thrown down and broken.
She has lectured in 14,364,812,719 towns between San Francisco on the one hand and California on the other.
Something of them still remains, especially upon the west of the town over the quays.