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Example sentences for "the cities"

  • Armies of troops were put into the field, and the fanatics were herded back at the bayonet point to their tasks in the cities.

  • What was happening in the cities of the labor castes and Mercenaries?

  • In the cities of the Mercenaries and of the labor castes similar programmes of disruption were to be carried out.

  • They could not go to the cities, for there, also, the Plutocracy was in control.

  • There are Hellenic cities close by; but then the Lacedaemonians are the lords of Hellas, and they can, any one of them, carry out whatever they like in the cities.

  • The cities wherein most of his mighty works were done.

  • A governor or prefect appointed by the Spartans in the cities subjugated by them.

  • Except he could recover one of the Cities of Refuge he was to die.

  • One of the cities shirked from the league.

  • SEC 98 For the purposes of a judicial system, the cities of the State shall be divided into two classes.

  • Held by a justice of the peace; in the cities, by the mayor or police justice.

  • The cities of Holland, Flanders, and other provinces call a convention at Ghent.

  • The burgher class controlled the government, not only of the cities, but often of the provinces, through its influence in the estates.

  • The cities, in common with all the provinces of the Netherlands, may hold diets as often ten and at such places as they choose.

  • The cities, as they grew in strength, never claimed the right to make the laws or to share in the government.

  • The cities, thus advancing in wealth and importance, were no longer satisfied with being governed according to law, and began to participate, not only in their own, but in the general government.

  • Succoth Benoth" or Damsels' booths which the Babylonians bans planted to the cities of Samaria.

  • We have then an account of the rain which made an end of the wicked and this judgment on the Cities of the Plain is repeated with more detail in the second reference.

  • Now of the cities in Cyprus Soloi held out for the longest time under the siege; and the Persians took it in the fifth month by undermining the wall round.

  • Under Napoleon, the parceling out of the agricultural lands into small allotments supplemented in the country the free competition and the incipient large production of the cities.

  • They drew the sword in the cities, they came and struck the stroke And smote the shield of the Markmen, and point and edge they broke.

  • The powers, like those of the present Congress, were administered by deputies appointed wholly by the cities in their political capacities; and exercised over them in the same capacities.

  • After the conclusion of the war with Xerxes, it appears that the Lacedaemonians required that a number of the cities should be turned out of the confederacy for the unfaithful part they had acted.

  • The Thebans, with others of the cities, undertook to maintain the authority of the Amphictyons, and to avenge the violated god.

  • Thus they had the opportunities presented by the cities.

  • Throughout the Middle Ages, owing to the very crowded and unsanitary state of the cities of Europe, smallpox was one of the various plagues from which the inhabitants were never free for any length of time.

  • The same is true of very large sections of the populations of the cities.

  • Before 1812, Jenner had been made an honorary member of nearly every scientific society in Europe, and had received the freedom of the cities of London, Edinburgh, Dublin and Glasgow.

  • Surely no one for a moment dreamed that in hardly more than a generation the Western rivers would carry a tonnage larger than that of the cities of the Atlantic seaboard combined and larger than that of Great Britain!

  • Behind him all lines of transportation lead eastward to the cities of the coast.

  • And it is said that five hundred years afterward he followed Mahomet when he carried destruction to the cities of Arabia, and then turned against him, hoping in this way to win the death of a traitor.

  • In the cities I saw people drinking a delicious beverage made of chalk and water, but never once saw goats driven through their Broadway or their Pennsylvania Avenue or their Montgomery street and milked at the doors of the houses.

  • At Constantinople, at Pisa, in the cities of Spain, are great mosques and cathedrals, whose grandest columns came from the temples and palaces of Ephesus, and yet one has only to scratch the ground here to match them.

  • When the proclamation went abroad requiring all Hebrews to be numbered at the cities of their birth-- That is my business here, Rabbi.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    the breath; the city; the face; the hand; the heaven; the man; the morrow; the night; the senate; thee again; thee must; then curs; then drop; then held; then placed; then shall; then shall they know; then take off the; then the priest shall pronounce him; then very; then walked; then work; these islands; these lines; these words; threw himself