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Sentences starting with city

City life agrees with me, Mrs. Pindar. [9]
City paper; the Mercury was the New York Sunday Mercury, to which he had urged Mark Twain to contribute. [5]
City seems so cramped and so dreary with toil and care and business anxieties. [5]
City residence gives both a fair chance at the poor. [4]
City families are always trying to find a grand new place, and he has heard of Rivervale and the Peacock Inn. [4]
City life is a severe trial. [4]

Sentences ending with city

May it serve you as the hill-fountain the garden in the city! [11]
To show New York millionaires how to adorn their city. [4]
So Clara is writing a Florence friend to take a look round among the villas for us in the regions near that city. [5]
Compared with the wretched attempts of London to light that city, New York may fairly be said to be a well-lighted city. [5]
She said she would say good-by to her father and uncle in the morning if it should still be their purpose to go, instead of tarrying awhile to see the city. [5]
Such an event would no longer have been possible so near the city. [10]
She thought it would be delightful, and promised to wait for me at a certain place outside of the city. [10]
And then--she awoke with the light shining in her face, and barely had time to dress before the conductor was calling out "Jersey City. [9]
I talked recently with the driver of a street-car in a large city. [4]
I will speak with him alone.--You, my friends, withdraw with our idiologos, the priest of Alexander, who is well known here, and visit the city. [10]

Short sentences using city

Half the city went crazy. [10]
He must leave the city. [10]
Jefferson City isn't precisely quiet. [9]
The city emptied itself. [5]
And a city it is. [4]
The whole city is troubled. [5]
Beyond was the city. [9]
Nimrod built that city. [5]
J. Dimsdale, Virginia City, M.T. [5]
I lost my city contracts. [9]

Sentences containing city two or more times

They went away without thinking of the tremendous significance of that immense and wealthy city being given over to destruction, for a great city with wooden buildings was certain when abandoned by its inhabitants to be burned. [2]
And so Cynthia was transformed into a city person, though her skin glowed with a health with which few city people are blessed. [9]
Salt Lake City was healthy--an extremely healthy city. [5]
These appointments are to continue during the pleasure of the President, not extending beyond the military occupation of the city of New Orleans or the restoration of the civil authority in that city and in the State of Louisiana. [7]
With it died the splendor and the power of the second city in the world; and of all the glories of the city of Serapis nothing now remains but a mighty column--[Known as Pompey's Pillar. [10]
Those barbarians of the foreign city to the south, drunk with power, were to sack and loot the city. [9]
It provides for the comforts and conveniences, and many of the elegances of life, more satisfactorily than any American city, perhaps than any other city anywhere. [6]
Above and beyond the city rose, overpowering, a very different city, somehow, than that her imagination had first drawn. [9]
I know that that grateful city, that adoring city, would have risen to the last man and the last woman, and marched upon Rouen. [5]
The conveyance from Star City (its locality) to Virginia City will cost seventy dollars per ton; from Virginia to San Francisco, forty dollars per ton; from thence to Liverpool, its destination, ten dollars per ton. [5]

More example sentences with the word city in them

You never spared yourself, but in a big city parish it's different. [9]
If you see your way to meet us in New Orleans, drop me a line, now, and as we approach that city I will telegraph you what day we shall arrive there. [5]
Now it is your turn again: In what city of my home did you meet the signorina? [10]
Ye temple-servants, seize your staves, and spread in every part of the city the news of the miracle which the Divinity has vouchsafed to us. [10]
And now that you have returned to your home in the great city I must write you a few lines of welcome, if nothing more. [6]
Something over two years before, Mr. Goodman and another journeyman printer, had borrowed forty dollars and set out from San Francisco to try their fortunes in the new city of Virginia. [5]
His mother had written him, asking why he stayed so long in an unimportant city, he who had been so active a traveler hitherto. [4]
Anxiety for her would surely have bound me to this house and the city when the time came to make the escape, for without her my life would now be valueless. [10]
How often they would see Pollux returning from the distant city whither he had probably fled-from Rome, or even from Athens--crowned with laurels and rich in treasure. [10]
At noon we would reach Carson City, the capital of Nevada Territory. [5]
If the city would only burn, that his cocksure judgment might for once be mistaken, his calmness for once broken! [9]
If the city would give them a franchise, that Automatic Company--so well named! [9]
Such a place would give distinction to the city, and compel foreigners to recognize the high civilization of America. [4]
She thought it would be very nice to be rich, and to live in a great house in a city, and to go on picnics. [9]
A better analogy would be the human anatomy: we lawyers, of course, were the brains; the financial and industrial interests the body, helpless without us; the City Hall politicians, the stomach that must continually be fed. [9]
This gift was worth twenty houses in the city, and made its owner a rich man. [10]
So calm the world, so still the city lies, So warm the haze that spreads o'er everything; And yet where, there, Peace sits as Lord and King, Havoc will reign when next the sun shall rise. [11]
It was a wonderful city, this Ephesus. [5]
And he often wondered whether they did not get tired standing on their feet all day long, hesitating to ask them; speculated on their lives--flung as most of them were on a heedless city, and left to shift for themselves. [9]
I have often wondered how I should have felt on that five-hour journey back to the city if she had fallen into my arms! [9]
She was a woman of fine literary taste, and Quaker City correspondent for her husband's paper, the Cleveland Herald. [5]
Felion sat just within his doorway, looking out into the sunlight which fell upon the red and white walls of the little city, flanked by young orchards, with great, oozy meadows beyond these, where cattle ate, knee- deep in the lush grass and cool reed-beds. [11]
Barbara was familiar with this flourishing place, above which proudly towered the Trausnitzburg, for here lived her uncle Wolfgang Lorberer, who had married her mother's sister, and was a member of the city Council. [10]
The bow-windowed room, with the view of the belfry and the stately guildhall, was pleasantly fitted up for his mother, and the city gardeners received orders to send the finest house-plants to his residence. [10]
A board inscribed with the name of the country or city indicated the scene of action. [4]
Philip was oppressed with the heavy air; the sweltering city lay as in a swoon. [5]
He came charged with the commission to convey the artist, in the carriage of the gray-haired comrade of Alexander, to the neighbouring city of Pithom, where Philippus, by the King's command, was now residing. [10]
Wolf was acquainted with the city, and perhaps would spare him a walk by informing him where the sick lads would find the best shelter. [10]
Brave Winthrop, marching with the city elegants, seems to have been a little startled to find how wonderfully human were the hard-handed men of the Eighth Massachusetts. [6]
The city reeked with smoke and acrid, stale gas, the electric lights were turned on to dispel the November gloom. [9]
Even the city, with its mass of stone and brick, rectangles, straight lines, dust, noise, and fever of activity, is penetrated by this divine suggestion of the renewal of life. [4]
Thus I fared with him to the great and mighty city of Saint Mark, which I had ever longed to behold with my bodily eyes. [10]
He brought home with him a suit of clothes of such exquisite style and cut in fashion--Eastern fashion, city fashion--that it filled everybody with anguish and was regarded as a peculiarly wanton affront. [5]
Now they rejoiced with Dion, and wanted to send at once for their host and future son-in-law, who was in the city attending a meeting of the Ephebi, although he had ceased some time ago to be a member of their company. [10]
Innumerable boarding-houses swarmed with city and country clergymen, who have a well-founded impression that the waters of the springs have a beneficent relation to the bilious secretions of the year, but the resort had not an oppressive air of sanctity. [4]
Later he camped with Bob Howland, who, as City Marshal of Aurora, became known as the most fearless man in the Territory, and, still later, with Calvin H. Higbie (Cal), to whom 'Roughing It' would one day be dedicated. [5]
Here she stopped with a shriek, dropping the comb, for the thundercloud was now directly over the city, and a loud peal, following close upon the flash of lightning, shook the house; but Barbara scarcely heeded the dazzling glare and the rattling panes. [10]
So he escaped with a sentence of exile from the city for five years. [10]
It is octagonal, with a peaked roof, each octagon filled with a spacious window, and it sits perched in complete isolation on top of an elevation that commands leagues of valley and city and retreating ranges of distant blue hills. [5]
Dion had often wished to set sail with his wife for a great city in Syria or Greece, but fresh and mighty obstacles had deterred him. [10]
They did not wish to admit foreign troops within the walls, for during the first siege they had proved far more troublesome than useful, and there was little reason to fear that a city guarded by water, walls and trees would be taken by storm. [10]
Cables with insulated wires running to it from different quarters of the city. [6]
And so the Winged Lion of St. Mark, with the open Bible under his paw, is a favorite emblem in the grand old city. [5]
I fancy she will have tried to reach the sea, and to get to Egypt or possibly to Alexandria; and there--you know what the Greek city is--she will fall into utter ruin. [10]
The other one will go from the rest-cure in this city to the rest-cure in Norfolk Conn and we shall not see her before autumn. [5]
The gracious young wife was overwhelmed with horror, which had doubtless prevented her return, unless her absence was due to departure from the city. [10]
The awkward, uncouth wickedness of remote country-places, where culture has died out after the first crop, is about as disagreeable as the ranker and richer vice of city life, forced by artificial heat and the juices of an overfed civilization. [4]
I don't know why, for it's the flattest, dirtiest, dampest city in the world; but it is charming. [4]
The dark shape, whose incessant motion could be clearly perceived whenever the starlight broke through the clouds, appeared first near the city of the dead and the strangers' quarter. [10]
Taken as a whole, the underground city had some thirty miles of streets and a population of five or six thousand. [5]
Clemens, on the whole, rather tired of Virginia City and Carson, thought it a good time to go across the mountains to San Francisco. [5]
At Easter the whole city learned that Don Luis d'Avila had eloped with the beautiful Anna Van Hoogstraten, after killing her betrothed bridegroom in a duel on Maundy-Thursday at Hals on his way to Brussels--scarcely twenty-four hours before the wedding. [10]
Most of those who were out and about were going in the opposite direction; they meant to await the grand reception of Caracalla at the eastern end of the city, on his way from the Kanopic Gate to the Gate of the Sun. [10]
It is you who have made this city the envy of the cities of the world. [5]
The modest Northerners who have got hold of it, and staked it all out into city lots, seem to want to keep it all to themselves. [4]
In a little while the waters widened into a lake, which was surrounded by a park, a gift to the city of the Hutchins family. [9]
The ground on which the city stood was too high for the water ever to reach it. [10]
The hapless city which dark Hades ingulfed really belonged to Antony, for in the days of its prosperity he was its founder. [10]
She could live wherever she pleased, and her dowry, with what she had saved, would be ample to support her and Maria, in the city or the country, in a style suited to their rank. [10]
Happy little enclosure, where thieves cannot break through and steal, where Death himself hesitates to enter, and makes a visit only now and then at long intervals, lest the fortunate inhabitants should think they had already reached the Celestial City! [6]
In one place, where a busy little city with banks and newspapers and fire companies and a mayor and aldermen had been, was nothing but a wide expanse of emerald turf, with not even the faintest sign that human life had ever been present there. [5]
At eight o'clock, when she returned, there were signs that the city had awakened. [9]
There were days when no wind stirred anywhere, and the gorgeous sun made the little city and all the land round about a pretty silver kingdom, where Oberon and his courtiers might have danced and been glad. [11]
And I meant, when I gave my wife a house, to have it the best in the city. [9]
On the train, when Howard had returned from the smoking car and they were about to disembark at Long Island City, they encountered Mr. Trixton Brent. [9]
But Mr. Vane, when he was at home, lived on a wide, maple-shaded street in the city of Ripton, cared for by an elderly housekeeper who had more edges than a new-fangled mowing machine. [9]
And wondering at what their eyes had seen, they went down into the city and purchased garments and clothed themselves. [5]
But it is what might reasonably have been expected--that this great city of Cincinnati would thus acquit herself on such an occasion. [7]
But Eva knew what had befallen the Eysvogel wares and, although she did not lack courage, she started in terror as she heard the tramp of horses' hoofs and the clank of weapons, not from the city, but within the forest. [10]
But better things were to come: as I was about to knock at the door it opened, and five gentlemen of the Council, all men of the first rank among the Elders of the city, appeared on the threshold, and Master Pernhart in their midst. [10]
The Whitely mills were significant of the new Bremerton, now neither village nor city, but partaking of the characteristics of both. [9]
Fifteen of us were of the great city families, and this day, being the first day of the school-term, we were all neatly clad in fine woollen stuffs of Florence or of Flanders make, and colored knitted hose. [10]
Certain people who were living in St. Louis during the Civil War have been mentioned as the originals of characters in "The Crisis," and there are houses in that city which have been pointed out as fitting descriptions in that novel. [9]
Here the streets were like a city of the dead; not a door was open, not a man to be seen. [10]
I thought you were in Kansas City. [4]
So there we were in a strange city and no chambermaid. [5]
At dawn we were at the city gate again; this time with a hope which our wearied bodies and fevered minds magnified into a large probability. [5]
The city gates were already open. [10]
The whole family went to the theatre a good deal, and enjoyed themselves together in their desultory explorations of the city. [8]
As the days went on and spring began to appear in the light, fleeting clouds in the blue sky and in the greening foliage in the city squares, Philip became more and more restless. [4]
Letters came and went between Jefferson City and Jefferson Davis, their purport being that the Governor was to work out his own salvation, for a while at least. [9]
And I listened well, and then came up here and made a splendid contract for a Quaker City book of 5 or 600 large pages, with illustrations, the manuscript to be placed in the publishers' hands by the middle of July. [5]
The city is well outfitted with progressive men--thinking, sagacious, long-headed men. [5]
We might as well attempt without any definition to decide whether a certain number of houses should be called a village, town, or city. [1]
He was a welcome guest at the first houses in the city, and in the palace and the villa of the Senator Justinus, an old friend of his father, he was as much at home as a son of the house. [10]
A mysterious burden weighed on the Heart of the busy city and clicked its pulses, as a nightmare oppresses the dreamer. [10]
I spent the week before election in the city, where I had the opportunity of observing what may be called the charitable side of politics. [9]
Is it a weed that will grow anywhere, in a crevice between two stones in the city? [9]
From the city we were in every sense transferred to the woods. [10]
For an hour we took as much interest in Overland City as if we had never seen a town before. [5]
Dandified, or, as we should now term them, "dudish" affairs, were not allowed at Keilhau; so various witticisms were made which culminated when a pupil of about our own age from a city on the Weser called us Berlin pomade-pots. [10]
I am afraid we do not always do justice to our country brethren, whose merits are less conspicuously exhibited than those of the great city physicians and surgeons, such especially as have charge of large hospitals. [3]
The first thing we did on that glad evening that landed us at St. Joseph was to hunt up the stage-office, and pay a hundred and fifty dollars apiece for tickets per overland coach to Carson City, Nevada. [5]
For instance, as we approached the Dardanelles, we coasted along the Plains of Troy and past the mouth of the Scamander; we saw where Troy had stood (in the distance,) and where it does not stand now--a city that perished when the world was young. [5]
I knew the way, the only way, to take the city. [11]
Then all the way down from the capital to the city ward, we shall have vital popular government, free action, discussion, agitation, life. [4]
He turned this way and that, and finally gave it up and signified that he was going to spend the remainder of the morning trying to find the city gate again. [5]
But so it was; and the consequence followed that Old Sarum, with all its grand recollections, is but a collection of mounds and hollows,--as much a tomb of its past as Birs Nimroud of that great city, Nineveh. [6]
Mr. Rogers's carriage was waiting for us in Jersey City and deposited me at the Players. [5]
They said it was two hours, by carriage to the ancient city of Bergamo, and that we would arrive there in good season for the railway train. [5]

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