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Example sentences for "that city"

  • It is six Months since I left Philadelphia; you cannot therefore expect I should give you any of the Intelligence of that City.

  • I once thought, that City would be the Christian Sparta.

  • A few Ships of War at the Bar of Charlestown, & a Frigate or two in Stone River, might at this time effect the Recovery of that City.

  • The two main Armies at & near New York have been quiet since the Enemy retreated to that City.

  • When you arrive at Rome," he says later, in somewhat more accustomed vein, "you receive cards from all your country folk in that city.

  • It was raised in the Augustan age, by the Roman colony of Nismes, to convey a stream of water between two mountains, for the use of that city.

  • He set out immediately for Tholouse, and in a few weeks died in the neighbourhood of that city.

  • He had walked by the door of the house where I lodged at Paris, twenty times, while I was in that city; and the very day before he arrived at Montpellier, he had passed our coach on the road.

  • When you arrive at Rome, you receive cards from all your country-folks in that city: they expect to have the visit returned next day, when they give orders not to be at home; and you never speak to one another in the sequel.

  • Never could I see the walls of that city, never could I enter it, without feeling my heart sink from excess of tenderness, at the same time that the image of liberty elevated my soul.

  • These then of the Phocaians had the fate which I have said; but those of them who took refuge at Rhegion started from thence and took possession of that city in the land of Oinotria which now is called Hyele.

  • Dandolo, the aged Doge of Venice, offered them the galleys of the Republic; but the crusaders, on their arrival in that city, found themselves too poor to pay even half the sum demanded.

  • The confusion immediately became general--the deroute was complete: Damietta itself was abandoned, and the same night the victorious crusaders fixed their headquarters in that city.

  • It was only when he had approached within a few hours' march of that city, that he discovered the inadequacy of his army.

  • Edward took advantage of this; and marching boldly forward to Nazareth, defeated the Turks and gained possession of that city.

  • With these few Prince Edward sailed from Dover to Bourdeaux, in the expectation that he would find the French King in that city.

  • But fearing his father's house, and the men of that city, he would not do it by day, but did all by night.

  • Marius answered him with a deep sigh: "Go tell him that you have seen Caius Marius sitting in exile among the ruins of Carthage;" appositely applying the example of the fortune of that city to the change of his own condition.

  • For which reason the Romans also had sent before to that city a force under the conduct of Appius, as praetor.

  • But true it is, what is said of that city, that the good men she breeds are the most excellent, and the bad the most notorious; as their country also produces the most delicious honey and the most deadly hemlock.

  • Tauris, which has been commonly mistaken for that city.

  • Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there be not one small stone found there.

  • When she went to Bath the Secretary of State wrote to request the Mayor of that city not to receive her with the ceremonial with which royal visitors were usually welcomed.

  • In five days he was under the walls of that city, at the head of more than thirty thousand men.

  • From a letter written at Edinburgh about two months after the crime had been committed, it appears that the horrible story was already current among the Jacobites of that city.

  • He marched towards Liege, and made as if he were about to form the siege of that city.

  • In my diary for that period, I find it jotted down that I observed and studied at various times the Michael Palace in that city as a very suitable structure for a university.

  • As if conscious of strength which they could use against Cæsar himself, they looked with contempt on the rabble of the street, forgetting, it was evident, that many of themselves had come to that city in manacles.

  • Sunk in silence he meditated on the immensity and dominion of that city, to which he had come to announce the word of God.

  • That city of pride, crime, wickedness, and power was beginning to be His city, and the double capital, from which would flow out upon the world government of souls and bodies.

  • Before the palace grouped a great concourse and a multitude of all ages and either sex in that city, despite the blaze and the heat.

  • I shall probably return to Philadelphia early in October and spend the winter there, which will end my residence in that city, unless I should remain longer to attend the hospital and see more practice than I could otherwise.

  • It is said Sallie had an admirer who lived in Halifax, and occasionally visited Cumberland, and who in later years became a prominent official in the executive of that city.

  • He was a Methodist local preacher, and in 1829 started a literary and religious journal, which enjoyed, like most of its successors in that city, but a brief existence.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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