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Sentences starting with towns

Towns and settlements sprang up in a season and flourished, and a man could scarce keep pace with the growth of them. [9]

Sentences ending with towns

All the friends whose acquaintance we have made were there, and many from remoter villages and towns. [6]
Some mummy-cases, too, were there, ready to be packed off to other towns. [10]
Hitherto Warner's repute was mainly confined to the inhabitants of a provincial capital and its outlying and dependent towns. [4]
I want you to tell me what has happened to my concerns--to the railways, and also to the towns. [11]
We've laid out the hill towns. [9]
Its population, like that of most respectable suburbs, must belong mainly to the kind of citizens which resembles in many ways the better class,--as we sometimes dare to call it,--of one of our thriving New England towns. [6]
The mournful fact that Manitou had never equipped itself with a first-class fire-engine or a fire-brigade was now to play a great part in the future career of the two towns. [11]
He was no suburbanite, but rural to the backbone, professing a most proper contempt for dwellers in towns. [9]
If we could stand behind him, we should see that these are what are known as check-lists, or rosters of the voters in various towns. [9]
They lead the same narrow life in this house that they did in their little New England towns. [9]

Short sentences using towns

He's working for both towns. [11]

Sentences containing towns two or more times

I should say that where minor towns in America spend a hundred dollars on the town hall and on public parks and gardens, the like towns in Australasia spend a thousand. [5]

More example sentences with the word towns in them

Where the valleys widened we came to silent, decorous little towns and villages where yellow-lit windows gleaming through the trees suggested refuge and peace, while we were wanderers in the night. [9]
In the days when vast markets would be established for Canadian wheat in Shanghai and Tokio, then these two towns of Manitou and Lebanon on the Sagalac would be like the swivel to the organization of trade of a continent. [11]
Nine years later, when he was twenty-one, I came upon the family in one of the lake towns of New York, and the mother told me about an adventure which her son had been having. [5]
These extraordinary towns were ten miles apart, a few months ago, but were growing so fast that they may possibly be joined now, and getting along under a single mayor. [5]
A fourth bed was waiting ready for the Captain, but not one word had been heard of him, though inquiries had been made in the towns from and through which the father had brought his two sons and the lieutenant-colonel. [6]
I want these two towns to be one. [11]
I would not try to compare the two university towns, as one might who had to choose between them. [6]
There warn't no trees, nor hills, nor rocks, nor towns, and Tom and Jim had took it for the sea. [5]
Then into another train, through valleys and factory towns and cities until they came, at nightfall, to the metropolis itself. [9]
Then get the towns on the line to issue their bonds for stock, and sell their bonds for enough to complete the road, and partly stock it, especially if we mortgage each section as we complete it. [5]
Many villages and towns lay on his road, but most of them had been damaged in the war. [10]
Streets in some towns have a litter of pieces of paper, and odds and ends of one sort or another lying around. [5]
The burning of towns and villages, the retreats after battles, the blow dealt at Borodino and the renewed retreat, the burning of Moscow, the capture of marauders, the seizure of transports, and the guerrilla war were all departures from the rules. [2]
When they hear this, the French of those towns will not fight against us. [9]
Several towns and things, here and there, have been named for Her Majesty already. [5]
At each of these towns thousands of people met him with excitement and enthusiasm. [2]
Falling into line these strikers would march across the bridge between the towns at such time as would bring them into touch with the line of the Orange funeral--two processions meeting at right angles. [11]
We didn't smell, there on the Jordan, the same as we do in Jerusalem; and we don't smell in Jerusalem just as we did in Nazareth, or Tiberias, or Cesarea Philippi, or any of those other ruinous ancient towns in Galilee. [5]
Concord is on the whole the most interesting of all the inland towns of New England. [6]
If wanting in the variety of surface which many other towns can boast of, it has at least a vision of the distant summits of Monadnock and Wachusett. [6]
The feud between the towns is worse now than it's ever been. [11]
One can walk the streets of any of the university towns in his academic robes without being jeered at, as I am afraid he would be in some of our own thoroughfares. [6]
We passed through the strangest, funniest, undreampt-of old towns, wedded to the customs and steeped in the dreams of the elder ages, and perfectly unaware that the world turns round! [5]
Farther on, as the soldiers along the highroads and in the towns grew more and more numerous, they seemed so harmoniously part of the peaceful scene that war was as difficult to visualize as ever. [9]
Anxious as was the Ry to learn what was going on in the towns, Jowett's mount caught his eye. [11]
Apparently, nearly all the river towns, big and little, have made up their minds that they must look mainly to railroads for wealth and upbuilding, henceforth. [5]
Colonel Clark plied the priest with questions of the French towns under English rule: and Father Gibault, speaking for his simple people, said that the English had led them easily to believe that the Kentuckians were cutthroats. [9]
Many stories of the now all-powerful Jethro William heard from the little coterie which made their headquarters in his store--stories of how those methods of which we have read were gradually spread over other towns and other counties. [9]
The changes in the Mississippi River are great and strange, yet were to be expected; but I was not expecting to live to see Natchez and these other river towns become manufacturing strongholds and railway centers. [5]
They gathered in the militia and orators and everybody from all the towns around. [5]
Then, whereas in the middle of the past century all towns were forbid by imperial law to hold tournaments, he went to Court, and had been dubbed knight by the Emperor Charles, and won fame and honor by many a shrewd lance-thrust. [10]
No masters of the houses being found anywhere, the French were not billeted on the inhabitants as is usual in towns but lived in it as in a camp. [2]
In Harrison's time the greater part of the building in cities and towns was of timber, only a few of the houses of the commonalty being of stone. [4]
He's after getting the cinch on two towns and three railways, and doing what he likes with it all; and we're after not having him do it, you bet. [11]
Instead of encouraging the bringing of trade to their doors, the towns diligently and effectively discouraged it. [5]
In smaller towns the average is $400 to $500. [5]
I have seen that town, and it is not unlikely that there are other squatter-owned towns in Australia. [5]
The same thing that took place in Moscow had happened in all the towns and villages on Russian soil beginning with Smolensk, without the participation of Count Rostopchin and his broadsheets. [2]
She told him that they sought some distant country place remote from towns or even other villages, and with a faltering tongue inquired what road they would do best to take. [12]
It is certain that the inhabitants of all these towns held very loose ideas on the subject of brigandage: the poor fellows, they used to say, only robbed because they were hungry, and they must live somehow. [4]
I need not tell you that these towns are Newburyport, Portsmouth, and Portland. [6]
During the night subtle electricity had carried the tale over all the wires of the continent and under the sea; and in all villages and towns of the Union, from the. [5]
He did not stop in towns or villages, but camped outside of them and sent his servants in to buy provisions. [5]
I would like--yes, sometimes I would like to sweep to a watery grave one of the towns that are a glory to this island, as Savanna la Mar was swept to oblivion in the year 1780 by a hurricane. [11]
The folks in some of the neighboring towns had a joke against them, that a Rocklander could n't hear a beanpod rattle without saying, "The Lord have mercy on us! [6]
Indeed, during the six years which we are about to skip over so lightly, he became a marked man in Coniston, and it was voted in towns meeting that he be intrusted with that most important of literary labors, the Town History of Coniston. [9]
An excursion numbering several hundreds, gathered along the river towns by the benevolent enterprise of railway officials, came up to the mountain one day. [4]
Other mansions--like the Rockingham House in Portsmouth (look at the white horse's tail before you mount the broad staircase)--show that there was not only wealth, but style and state, in these quiet old towns during the last century. [6]
Both of these river towns have been retired to the country by that cut- off. [5]
A block of river towns and a senator, and not a casualty since they marched boldly into camp twelve weeks ago. [9]
It's the first real organized set-to we've had between the towns, and it'll be nasty. [11]
Nearby was the quarter of the Canadian French, scarcely now to be called foreigners, though still somewhat reminiscent of the cramped little towns in the northern wilderness of water and forest. [9]
Pierre's wanderings took place in a period when civilization had made but scant marks upon the broad bosom of the prairie land, and towns and villages were few and far scattered. [11]
About nightfall we passed the large and flourishing town of Alton, Illinois; and before daylight next morning the town of Louisiana, Missouri, a sleepy village in my day, but a brisk railway center now; however, all the towns out there are railway centers now. [5]
As I write, our towns are near deserted. [5]
People flocked from other towns, and though, to some who had been cured, their pains and sickness returned, there were a few who bore perfect evidence to his teaching and healing, and followed him, "converted and consecrated," as though he were a new Messiah. [11]
My men had orders to strike across country, avoiding roads, and establishing connection with any considerable towns whose lights betrayed their presence, and leaving experts in charge. [5]
And yet, if one may judge by the past, the river towns will manage to find and use a chance, here and there, to cripple and retard their progress. [5]
The weeks drifted on, until twelve went by, and then Mr. Bixby found himself, with his block of river towns and one senator, in the incomparable position of being the arbiter of the fate of the Consolidation Bill in the House and Senate. [9]
Epsom is one of those smoky manufacturing towns one sees in New England, and the 'Miles Standish' bicycle is made there. [9]
The northeast side of this, with Naples in the right-hand corner, looking seaward and Castellamare in the left-hand corner, at a distance of some fourteen miles, is a vast rich plain, fringed on the shore with towns, and covered with white houses and gardens. [4]
With the exception of this sweet spot, I thought all the little towns and villages we passed wretched- looking in the extreme. [5]
Lebanon took command of the whole situation, and for the first time in the history of the two towns men worked together under one control like brothers. [11]
Unlike other towns of the West, it was insanitary and uneducated; it was also given to nepotism and a primitive kind of jobbery; but, on the whole, it was honest. [11]
We had heard of the odors of the towns on the Rhine, but we had no idea that the entire stream was infected. [4]
As an example of New Orleans journalistic achievement, it may be mentioned that the 'Times-Democrat' of August 26, 1882, contained a report of the year's business of the towns of the Mississippi Valley, from New Orleans all the way to St. Paul--two thousand miles. [5]
This intermediate class of houses, wherever one finds them in New England towns, are very apt to be cheerless and unsatisfactory. [6]
The chief employment of Chinamen in towns is to wash clothing. [5]
In not six of all these books is there mention of these Upper River towns--for the reason that the five or six tourists who penetrated this region did it before these towns were projected. [5]
I had a note-book that fairly bristled with the names of towns, 'points,' bars, islands, bends, reaches, etc. [5]
The distance was not great enough to obliterate details, it only made them little, and mellow, and dainty, like landscapes and towns seen through the wrong end of a spy-glass. [5]
Probably there is no country in the world where elementary education commands the devotion and the cash of the people as in English Canada; that is why the towns of Lebanon and Manitou had from the first divergent views. [11]
The traveler finds no city with more flavor of the picturesque and quaint than Berne; and I think it must have preserved the Swiss characteristics better than any other of the large towns in Helvetia. [4]
Four days and nights we rowed down the great river, our oars double-manned, for fear that our coming might be heralded to the French towns. [9]
Those boats will never halt a moment between New Orleans and St. Louis, except for a second or two at large towns, or to hitch thirty-cord wood- boats alongside. [5]
He knew the names of the towns on the road to Valencia and thought: "Now he may be here, now he may be there, now he must be approaching Tarancon. [10]
This is the Musketaquid, or Meadow River, which, after being joined by the more restless Assabet, still keeps its temper and flows peacefully along by and through other towns, to lose itself in the broad Merrimac. [6]
You know the mountain ranges, the passes, the rivers, the fords, the forest trails, the towns and the men who made them! [9]
There are hundreds more workmen in both the towns than there were when he came. [11]
I had met Monsieur Vigo many times since, for he was a familiar figure amongst the towns of the Ohio and the Mississippi, and from Vincennes to Anse a la Graisse, and even to New Orleans. [9]
If he brings money from outside, that's good for both towns. [11]
After visits to Maryborough and some other Australian towns, we presently took passage for New Zealand. [5]
And it will make all the other towns jealous; for no stranger would trust such a thing to any town but Hadleyburg, and they know it. [5]
Likewise this Mr. Lincoln, who had once been a rail-sputter, was uproariously derided by Northern Democrats because he had challenged Mr. Douglas to seven debates, to be held at different towns in the state of Illinois. [9]
The descriptions of life in the two towns are true, and the chief characters in the book are lifted out of the life as one has seen it. [11]
Dr. Beddoe has lately proved that, with the inhabitants of Britain, residence in towns and certain occupations have a deteriorating influence on height; and he infers that the result is to a certain extent inherited, as is likewise the case in the United States. [1]
In no other land, in modern times, have towns so absolutely died and disappeared, as in the old mining regions of California. [5]
Coniston, be it known, at this time is one of the famous wool towns of New England: before the industry went West, with other industries. [9]
Only I must keep out of the way of the carriers who bring fish from the fishing towns on the sea, and from Raithu to the oasis. [10]
First it was just Joan; then it was Joan-Orleans; then Joan-Orleans-Beaugency-Patay; and now the next ones will have a lot of towns and the Coronation added, of course. [5]
The back-blocks has its tricks as well as the towns, as you would see if you come across a stock-rider with a cheque to be broke in his hand. [11]
The towns on its banks dwindled into huge funereal urns, surrounding the vast corpse of the Nile as in a tomb. [10]
Of the towns it has been our good fortune to visit, none have portrayed home so faithfully as Sydney. [5]
The navy, then, is the most general in its benefits of all this class of objects; and yet even the navy is of some peculiar advantage to Charleston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, beyond what it is to the interior towns of Illinois. [7]
Between these two is the great body of the middle class, a considerable portion of the educated and university trained, the majorities of the manufacturing towns, and perhaps, we may say, generally the Nonconformists. [4]
After all, it is probably pretty much like other inland New England towns in point of "salubrity,"--that is, gives people their choice of dysentery or fever every autumn, with a season-ticket for consumption, good all the year round. [6]
This stupendous blank is hot, not to say torrid; a part of it is fertile, the rest is desert; it is not liberally watered; it has no towns. [5]
Everybody knew that in various towns patriot priests had been marching in procession urging the people to sacrifice money, property, everything, and buy the freedom of their heaven-sent deliverer. [5]
Just as California in the old days, just as Ballaret in Australia drew the oddest people from every corner of the world, so Western towns, with new railways, brought strange conglomerations into the life. [11]
In Burlington, as in all these Upper-River towns, one breathes a go-ahead atmosphere which tastes good in the nostrils. [5]

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