40 Verbs to Use for the Word metropolis

He had left a metropolis; he was coming back to a tumble-down village.

The sums spent at St. Stephen's in giving old gentlemen colds, and in making those of all ages sneeze from underfoot snuffin other words, the attempt at ventilation, which is totally uselesshas cost the country more than would be necessary to supply this vast metropolis with telegraphic wire communication for a century.

Mr. Fink-Nottle confided to me his motive in visiting the metropolis.

We saw it in the immediate future the metropolis of the Pacific Slope, as it was intended by nature to be.

Two such candidates for fame, perhaps never, before that day, entered the metropolis together.

Forgive my transports, on a theme like this, [n]I cannot bear a French metropolis.

SEE James, Will. DUFFUS, ROBERT L. Mastering a metropolis.

After about fifteen months' residence in London, my health began to fail, from the labor and confinement of my situation; and at the expiration of nineteen months, I was under the necessity of quitting the metropolis, and returning to my native county.

These two cities, with twenty-five boroughs under local officers, constitute the metropolis, and since 1888 the county of the city of London, and send 59 members to Parliament.

I have sometimes contemplated the vast metropolis of Englandor rather of the worldmultitudinous and mighty LONDONwith the pride and hope and exultation, not of a patriot only, but of a cosmopolitea man.

Once start him at the water supply, and before we could ring him in, and catch him again, he would have decimated the metropolis.

The insurrection which had for some days disgraced the British metropolis, at the beginning of June, suggested the publication of this tract.

His barbarous policy has not even spared those monuments of the arts and models of taste with which our country had enriched and embellished its infant metropolis.

And such was his love of London, so high a relish had he of its magnificent extent, and variety of intellectual entertainment, that he languished when absent from it, his mind having become quite luxurious from the long habit of enjoying the metropolis;

Before the stupendous improvements of later times had justly entitled the Scottish metropolis to the appellation of the modern Athens, the princes and nobles of the land, its judges and senators, were obliged to dwell in those dirty streets and alleys, from which "Auld Reekie" derived its then appropriate appellation.

Probably no spot could have been selected with better judgment for the residence of a Princewho wished to enjoy, almost at the same moment, the charms of the country with the magnificence of a city view, unclouded by the dense fumes which forever envelop our metropolis.

Even in such sort had I at first been moved, 590 Nor otherwise continued to be moved, As I explored the vast metropolis, Fount of my country's destiny and the world's; That great emporium, chronicle at once And burial-place of passions, and their home 595 Imperial, their chief living residence.

It gave one a strange sensation to find such a very large metropolis in what is now a desolate region.

The same skilful division of labour which brings the fowl ready trussed to our doors from the market, brings also an abstract of the Votum, timor, ira, voluptas, Gaudia, discursus, which agitate the great metropolis, and even opinions, ready prepared, to the breakfast tables of our remotest farms, ere the controversial warmth has had time to cool.

The host of empirics, mountebanks, and self-dubbed hygeists, which infest the metropolis, and the tinctures, cordials, pills, balms, and essences, so much extolled by their retailers, and swallowed by the public, are indeed so many proofs of the credulity of the age, that to say the least, the march of intellect has evidently made a faux-pas in this direction.

The immense ransom demanded must be raised and paid, or the work of destruction would be resumed until the defenders of the bay removed their torpedoes from the Narrows and permitted the Spanish forces to enter and occupy the metropolis.

It is by his own and his mother's reputation that the most distinguished men of learning have been attracted to Weimar, and by them Germany, for the first time, has possest a literary metropolis; but, as this metropolis was at the same time only an inconsiderable town, its ascendency was merely that of superior illumination; for fashion, which imposes uniformity in all things, could not emanate from so narrow a circle.

Troops are in motion all over the country, and but last week measures were adopted by Parliament to prevent this metropolis from rising to rebellion, by ordering troops to be stationed round the city to be ready at a moment's warning.

Trade, commerce, manufacturing and finance, concentrated populations, increased division of labor, specialization, inter-communication and interdependence produced the trade center, the commercial metropolis and the general purpose city.

People of Cincinnati, are you that child which, awakening in an unwatched moment, liberated his tender hands from the swaddling band, swept away by his left arm the primitive forest planted by the Lord at creation's dawn, and raised by his right hand this mighty metropolis.

40 Verbs to Use for the Word  metropolis