630 Verbs to Use for the Word city

Gurameer now goes in despair to Veenah's father, from whom he experiences a haughty repulse, and who, in the following night, secretly leaves the city, with his daughter, embarking on the Ganges, and taking measures to prevent the discovery of the place of his retreat.

The Brahmans come and invite the Buddhas to enter the city.

I still had to travel a circuitous course of some two or three miles; and when I reached the city, its crowded population was already in motion: a great multitude of women, of the lower order, with alarm and expectation strongly depicted in their faces, were to be seen mingling in the crowd, and pressing on in the same direction.

I have been wanting for a long time to visit the chief city of the Aros.

It has built cities, bridged rivers, united continents, and sent the myriad spindles of trade whirring under a thousand changing skies.

In August of that year Keduk Achmed, one of the Turkish Sultan's (Mahomet II) ablest generals, besieged and took the city of Otranto.

He'd travelled on a railroad, seen a white man's city, lived like a lord, and came home to be the most famous man of his tribe.

The admiral now crowded all sail to reach Espanola, intending to make a landfall at the mouth of the river Azuma, where he knew that his brother, the Adelantado (Governor), had founded the new city, and named it Santo Domingo, in memory of their old father, Domenico Colombo.

On approaching the city, he found the roads swarming with throngs hastening to the temple, about to take part in a great religious ceremony to be held therein.

" "And in the second place, Beltane, to save this fair city of Belsaye.

'He who had been the first to found the city, and who was the most wise of any, though the rage was in him like all the rest, and the disappointment and the anguish, yet would not yield.

These three prayers were all to the same effect"that God would defend this new city which the Pope had enclosed with walls and called by his own name, the Leonine City, from all assaults of the enemy, either by fraud or by force.

The inhabitants, frightened, sent deputies to the other districts, saying: "Come and help us, for the Sultan's son has come and ordered us to build him a fort in the space of one month or he will fall upon us, cut a passage, and destroy our city."

She sends coloured troops to occupy the most cultured and progressive cities of Germany, abusing the fruits of victory.

And when he had set up his great gallows and hanged it full with our men, he vowed that, should Belsaye anger him again, he would burn the city and all within it and, O my lord, my lordI have yet a daughterAh, good my lord, leave us not to ravishment and death!" "Aye, go not from us, my lord!" cried the others.

When Buddha was about to attain to his pari-nirvâna, as he was quitting the city by the west gate, he turned round, and, beholding the city on his right, said to them, "Here I have taken my last walk."

The best proof that there was something in Manto's idea was that after a while the Emperor Frederick took alarm, and signified to the Mantuans that they must cease their mumming and fooling and acknowledge him as their sovereign, failing which he would besiege their city.

Thus, would I attack a city, I do it modo et forma: first, I set up my mantelets for my archers, and under cover of their swift shooting I set me up my mangonels, my trebuchets and balistae: then, pushing me up, assault the walls with cat, battering-ram and sap, and having made me a breach, would forthwith take me the place by sudden storm.

Sulla captures the revolted city of Athens and defeats the army of Mithridates under Archelaus.

Far beneath lay the red-roofed city, its devious lanes and its many great churches,crumbling relics of ancient ecclesiastical power,distinctly visible.

The rural districts surrounding a city might be subject to it, but could neither share its franchise nor claim a co-ordinate franchise with it.

For nearly a year he held the city against all the forces of the enemy; and meantime Great Britain was stirred with a vehement desire to save the life of this devoted man.

But instead of making preparations for war with Antony, the two commanders spent the early part of the year 42 in plundering the miserable cities of Asia Minor.

But the next verse was more true, and no less Homeric: "Thither come, I sacked a city, slew the people every one.

Two Austrian fortresses command the city from across the Danube.

630 Verbs to Use for the Word  city