They carried nearly all the counties, and all the cities and large towns.
The House of Commons was instituted in the thirteenth century, when Henry III summoned the counties of the realm to send knights, and the principal cities and boroughs to send citizens and burgesses, to Parliament.
In process of time, as trade fluctuated, drying up old channels and opening new, many of the ancient cities and burghs fell into decay.
The Chartists were chiefly laboring men, dwelling incities and towns.
At first, all the counties, and the largest cities and boroughs, were summoned.
The largecities and counties received an increase of members.
What I saw in Belgium of the wanton destruction of villages, towns, and cities has prejudiced me as no argument could have done.
The biggest newspaper publisher in America, William Randolph Hearst, figured that New York was one of the big German cities of the world.
They are the men from the cities and from the wealthiest families in the country life of England.
There is only one practical way to do this, and that is to have nations under restraint, just as nations have states and cities under restraint.
The street cars moving in the English coastcities must, of course, be lighted and the streets must have some illuminant; but the railroad carriages, hotels, and private houses must draw their curtains.
It is a life which cities have not spoiled, and where man is still in touch with the primeval friends of man; where the wildest beast and the newest babe of a woman have something in common.
Everywhere he was on the lookout for the cities of Asia--those wonderful cities of wealth and beauty described in such glowing colors by Marco Polo.
But there was grave fear that the Spanish fleet under Admiral Cervera might attack the large and wealthy cities upon our Atlantic coast.
Their pyramids were puny, and theircities nothing more than forts.
A great horde of little hairy creatures, that were something less than human and something more than beasts, swept down upon ourcities and ate them out.
They came to each of the cities of Yucatan in turn, and though the colonists slew them in thousands, the weight of numbers always prevailed.
And since this pleased the Nobatae, they made the migration immediately, just as Diocletian directed them, and took possession of all the Roman cities and the land on both sides of the river beyond the city of Elephantine.
For he thought the enslavement of the cities a great glory for himself, considering it absolutely nothing that disregarding treaties and compacts he was performing such deeds against the Romans.
Therefore, most mighty King, while busying thyself with murders and battles and the enslavement of cities it will perhaps be possible for thee to win the other names, but thou wilt never by any means have the reputation of being 'good.
Between these cities everything is held by the Huns.
Moreover there are two citiesof the greatest importance in that region, Rhodopolis and Mocheresis.
And yet least of all cities should Edessa suffer any adversity at thy hand.
There too, they say, is the city of Antioch, in wealth and size and population the first of all the cities of the Eastern Roman Empire; and this city is unguarded and destitute of soldiers.
Artists were looked upon merely as artisans in all the cities of Italy, but in Venice before any other city they had been placed among the craftsmen.
In all the States we met with nothing to be compared, in all that was pleasing, to the two cities of Connecticut--New Haven and Hartford.
Young men in great cities (it was observed) were in great danger, chiefly from example.
They are of architecture and of buildings--cities abroad, which I have never seen, and hardly have hope to see.
When we imagine in our cities that the wind no longer calls us to such things, it is only our reading that blinds us, and the picture of satiety which our reading breeds is wholly false.
Eastern cities are asleep betimes; and sounds few or none fretted the quiet of all around him, as the evangelist paced onward to the market-place; but there another scene awaited him.
Damascus is accredited as taking precedency in age of all cities to the west of the Indus.
The Hours of the Day and Night are taken up in the Cities of London and Westminster by People as different from each other as those who are Born in different Centuries.
It was all very well for the Medici, to ornament their cities and their homes with the fruit of the great artistic springtime of the world, but I should strongly advise the Berliners to pronounce it "Alexandria" for some years to come.
The government of their cities is arranged for on the basis that officials will be honest, and work for the city and not for themselves.
You may have plain living and high thinking in scores of the cities and towns of Germany, and you will be considered neither an outcast nor an eccentric; indeed, you will find no small part of the population your companions.
There is but a puny barrier against this, for the statistical year-book of German cities gives the number of public libraries in forty-two cities as 179.
Give me a plain, home-spun farmer's daughter, and you may have all the rich and fashionable belles of our cities and villages.
Without fear of truthful contradiction we affirm that the homes, public assemblies, and streets of all our large cities abound to-day with living illustrations and proofs of the widespread existence of this physical and moral scourge.
It is a well known fact that in all cities and large towns the ball room is the recruiting office for prostitution.
And it is for this that tens of thousands of strong men in our large cities are selling their birthright.
Hundreds of vile men and women in our large citiessubsist by this slaughter of the innocent.
Startling as it may seem to some, it is a fact in our large cities that there are many girls raised {383} by parents with no other aim than to make them harlots.
Mr. Leahy, a minister in the Protestant Methodist Church, after visiting several of the principal cities of the Union, came to Milwaukee.
After accomplishing what he could at home, he visited Milwaukee, Chicago, and several towns and cities in the Erie, Pittsburgh and Genesee Conferences, to obtain aid to complete the enterprise.
Other great cities bear the glorious marks of the tribulations and triumphs they suffered and enjoyed as they passed through their historic experiences.
The reader is perhaps curious to know how old cities sell in Central America.
For the simplification of local government it is doubtless excellent policy for London and New York to lasso their humbler neighbor towns that the big citiesmay pose as suddenly greater than ever.
Ordinary cities develop as babies do, slow growth to maturity, but this extraordinary late-comer into the family attained mental and muscular precocity in shorter time than its sisters required to cut their wisdom-teeth.
Great as New York is, and mightier as it will become by reason of its situation, the true and abiding greatness of the nation is spread over the thousand cities and towns that equally represent American pluck and stability.
But it was extremely difficult to accomplish anything like this in Corsica, where trade and manufactures were unknown, where there were neithercities nor a commercial middle-class.
In the cities French is much spoken, but the common people speak nothing but Italian, even when they have learned French at school, or by intercourse with Frenchmen.
Thus, as in the citiesof mediaeval Italy, we have still in Corsica wars of families, as a last remnant of the feuds of the seigniors.
Now shall give way to thee, Quit his tribunal, He who gives law in the Empire of silence, Prince of Cretan Cities a hundred.
I described to them the great cities of the Continent, their usages and festivals, more particularly some customs of my native country.
Pausanias tells us that they subjugated the Libyans and Hispanians on this island, and built the two cities of Caralis (Cagliari) and Sulchos (Palma di Solo).
Here he remained some little time reducing the country round and capturing many cities and fortresses.
An Imperialist diet was at that moment sitting at Frankfort, and Ferdinand was using all his influence to compel the various princes and representatives of the free cities to submit to him.
And finally, the overhead expense of living or doing business in the great cities is becoming so large as to be unbearable.
It is nonsense to say that because the cities are overcrowded everybody ought to go back to the farm.
Cities are no longer black specks on maps and continents are not just pages of a book.
In two regions, if not in three, the sands have overwhelmed large tracts of once cultivated country, and even buried the cities in which men formerly dwelt.
The latter were reunited to Gloucestershire in 1673, but the cities of Bristol and Gloucester continued to rank as independent counties, with separate jurisdiction, county rate and assizes.
Another clause forbade thecities to receive Pfahlburger, i.
The citiesof Brussels, Antwerp, Louvain, Mechlin, and Namur, opened their doors to the patriots.
We shall be attacked on one side by savage barbarity; up the Mediterranean by Algerine cruelty; our commerce prostrated, and our cities laid under contribution by the British.
He was sorry that a gentleman returned by the Republican interest of one of the first cities of the Union should have had recourse to a desperate Tory faction for a precedent.
The gentleman whom he referred to had spoke of an alarming British influence in some of the commercial cities of America.
This mode of regulating commerce was favored by the opinion of the people, who celebrated the adoption of the constitution with so much exultation and expensive parade in the great commercial cities of the United States.
So shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
The possession of it has sometimes raised men from a dungeon to a palace; and there are instances in which those that possessed it were delivered from the flames, while cities were consumed, and every soul, themselves excepted, perished.
But now its cities have become heaps of desolate ruins, only inhabited by the cormorant, bittern, and by wild beasts, serpents, etc.
And the sons of these men who had passed through no school were already well-fitted and invited to give new splendor to cities in their decline, and new life to the learning of the countries they had subdued.
Fire had destroyed the dwelling-place of justice, like the Egyptian cities to whom the prophet had announced a similar fate a thousand years since.
This was, in its way, a sort of special Providence, for this was the dull season, when there were no more wrecks alongshore or schooners aground on the bars, and the boarders and cottagers from the cities had not yet come to East Wellmouth.
One after the other the sojourners from the cities passed from grumbling at the weather to trunk-packing and leaving.
Again he said: "Go back to Gedaliah, whom the king of Babylon has made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people: or go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto thee to go.
Corinth was one of the richest cities of the Mediterranean in the time of Paul.
As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof,' saith the Lord; 'so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.
Cry yet again, saying, 'Thus saith the Lord of hosts: My citiesshall yet overflow with prosperity and the Lord shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
Then the angel of the Lord answered and said, "O Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?
Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as it is this day.
Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, The villages that Kedar doth inhabit; Let the inhabitants of Sela sing, Let them shout from the top of the mountains.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
