And in every town and city of the Empire newspapers were started.
The town of Palo Alto and Stanford University had been sacked in similar fashion, we learned.
By one o'clock we arrived at the town of Menlo, or, rather, at the site of Menlo, for it was in ruins.
Our train drew up in the station, which seemed as deserted as that of a small English country town on a Sunday.
Inside the town there are many signs of the devastation of war--buildings gutted, whole streets of small houses laid flat in ruins.
Having gone down to the dentist's in the town with two other officers and a sentry, he somehow managed to slip past the latter into the street and find his way out of the town.
We stay in town of course,” said Mrs. Maylie, “while there remains the slightest prospect of prosecuting this inquiry with a chance of success.
He went on doggedly; but as he left the town behind him, and plunged further and further into the solitude and darkness of the road, he felt a dread and awe creeping upon him which shook him to the core.
As they approached the town and at length drove through its narrow streets, it became matter of no small difficulty to restrain the boy within reasonable bounds.
Bath is the next and most southern town on the Kennebeck; it is quite a large place, where there is a great deal of shipping done, and is now in a flourishing condition.
The town is distinguished for its agricultural enterprise, and the abundance of its wheat, having actually produced more than is reported from any other town in the State.
Phillibert received, as the reward of his verse, the sword of an officer of the garrison through his back, when descending the Lower Town Hill.
The stage route from the Grand Falls to St. John passes through Woodstock, but the distance from this place to the American town of Houlton is ten miles, and in this direction there is also an established stage route to Bangor.
The town is situated on a level plain, and its suburbs are made exceeding beautiful by the number of rural residences which attract the eye in every direction.
One of the days that I spent at his house, was quite an eventful one with him, for a town election was held there.
Waterville, the next town on the river, is the seat of a Baptist college, and the head of navigation on account of the Ticonic Falls.
Directly opposite Old Townis a small island, where resides a remnant of the Penobscot Indians.
I smoke, be it because of my sovereign good pleasure I choose so to do, though at so unseasonable an hour that I send round the town for a brasier of coals.
She is too young for a court life, or a town life either," said Sir John.
We will go to town as soon as it is prudent to make the move.
He sends you his love, dear, and bids me tell you there shall be always an honoured place in our home for you, be it in England or France, in town or country.
The town soon discovered the breach between Lord Fareham and his friend--a breach commented upon with many shoulder-shrugs, and not a few coarse innuendoes.
I have been a virtuous wife, sister, in a town where scarce one woman in ten is true to her marriage vows.
Lady Fareham had an air of caring for neithertown nor country, but on the whole preferred town.
Low Town soon ranged itself, with very few exceptions, on my side.
When the arch was passed, one felt at once that one was in the town of a former day.
The ladies of Low Town (as the city subjacent to the Hill had been styled from a date remote in the feudal ages) entered those shops with a certain awe, and left them with a certain pride.
Since Low Town possessed one of the most famous physicians in England, Abbey Hill magnanimously resolved not to crush him by a rival.
He found himself in truth equally amused and fatigued; but the fatigue had the merit of being a new sort, and the phantasmagoric town was perhaps after all less of a battlefield than the haunted study.
Why, a few months past, the whole town went mad over Miss Cissie Loftus!
This was so little, however, her usual way of dealing with her eminent friends that a couple of days of it exhausted her patience, and she went up to town with him in great publicity.
I speak not of the countless gentlemen who walk about town in the time of its desertion from August to October, artificially bronzed, as though they were fresh from the moors or from the Solent.
The particulars of the character and career of every worker in the town could be ascertained at a moment's notice.
It was a great warehouse through which all the food brought into the town has to pass before it is allowed to be sold in the markets and shops.
The small town on the outer frontier in Francaria, through which I was to pass, is called Graves.
Then you consult a catalogue of any particular firm at the bureau for retail trade, where you will find a catalogue of every shop in the town you happen to be in.
It was a large building for a townof the size of Bridgetown, and seemed full of officials, police officers and clerks.
At another time I should probably have thought the town rather dull and uninteresting, for there was nothing noteworthy about it.
As to the way they spend their time, you must understand that in every town there are guilds of all the professions.
Then he pointed out that the plan of the town was like a wheel.
About five miles away we could see distinctly, with the aid of the glasses, the manufactories and workshops and warehouses of the industrial town that served the needs of the whole capital.
All goods arriving from the industrial town for distribution to the Stores are carried by a regular service of motor-vans.
Haven't you noticed the whole town is crowded with visitors?
As I walked farther I noticed that by far the greater part of the town had been built during the last fifty years or so, yet the place looked as if it were trying to preserve the appearance of age.
Having paid a visit to the graves of his relatives, the sailor next day went along the straight road which, then a lane, now a highway, conducted to the curious little inland town named by the Havenpool man.
It reached his ears that Bellston had not appeared on the evening of his arrival at any hotel in the town or neighbourhood, or entered his wife's house at all.
A note posted by her in Budmouth Regis at daybreak has reached me this afternoon--thanks to the fortunate chance of one of the servants calling for letters in town to-day, or I should not have got it until to-morrow.
The question now was, should she return again to Mrs. Wace, in the village of Lower Wessex, or wait in the town at which she had arrived.
To stop the wedding now would cause a convulsion in Giant's Townlittle short of volcanic.
Before you receive this I shall have left the town by the evening coach for London, on reaching which city my movements will be revealed to none.
Bruce was furious, but nothing could be done, and the journey back to town was taken with Madame Frabelle very nearly pushed on to his knee by a rude young man who practically sat on hers, smoking a bad cigarette in her face.
It's the one town in the world where anything goes.
In this town you seldom even ask a man where's he's from.
In spite of recent changes, the town still has its unique qualities.
A young gentleman, of considerable promise, of high natural and acquired attainments, had been solicited to make a speech at a public meeting, which was to take place in the town in which he resided.
However, instead of going into the country and varying the scene, his lady brought him into town and permitted unrestricted intercourse with his relations, &c.
I asked the fellow in a threatening voice, and with a view of intimidating him from his purpose, what was the name of the town before us.
Jew in the town to apprize him of the robbery, in order that if such articles should be offered for sale, he might stop them and detain the person who presented them.
The year 1793, presented in the town of Versailles alone the horrible spectacle of thirteen hundred suicides.
They also passed the remains of an old Spanish town and several haciendas, where many cattle and horses were grazing.
On leaving the town the road ran up the valley of the Rimac, a small river, but of vital importance to the country through which it passes, as small canals branching from it irrigate the land.
A lonely man laid up with fever, or accidental injury, fares badly indeed if he is at a distance from any town where he can obtain medical attendance, and surrounded only by ignorant natives.
It is a shame that in a town like this people cannot walk in the streets after dark without the risk of being assassinated.
Occasionally they will wash the sand, and get gold enough to send one of their number into a town to buy articles they require.
No one in the town thought that I had an enemy in the world, and all have been wondering who could have had a grudge against me.
Before they were a mile out of the town the mist cleared off and the sun shone brightly.
As they neared the town vegetation became general, small canals irrigating the country.
Tradition has it that they were buried somewhere between thistown and Lima.
I knew some people at Junin, for I have often passed through the town when I have been bringing down silver from Cerro, and one managed to get for us that little barrel of pisco.
José went on with them, and I returned to the town again and started with Maria and the mules.
There is a pass over the mountains just on the other side of Mount Tinta; it leads to the town of Ayapata, which lies somewhere at the foot of that peak.
Between this town and the Carabaya range, a hundred and fifty miles to the south, was to be found the rich gold deposit to which Dias had referred.
Studies, athletics, social life, and the outside influences surrounding the youth of a college townare clearly depicted.
It occurred to Helen that the hoi polloi of Bobby's town of New York had not the money with which to "take to" saddle-horses, but she did not raise the point.
She saw them from the minaret, and she saw the town that had sprung up round the tomb of the saint, and all the palms of the oasis, and beyond them immeasurable spaces of desert.
What had become of the romance of the palm gardens, of the brown villages, of the red mountains, of the white town with its lights, its white figures, its throbbing music?
Against them were nailed two pictures of winged horses with human heads, and two more pictures representing a fantastical town of Eastern houses and minarets in gold on a red background.
It was all over town before the first week was out, and the fact had been canvassed in and out of the presence of the principals, with much the same frankness.
She thought he might decide to come with her, but he bowed his good-night, and she saw him walking on down town as she passed him.
She was really well on in the thirties when she went out to Leadville to take charge of Charmian Maybough's education from the New England town where she had always lived, and ended by marrying Charmian's father.
But many of the people of the town hardly knew it; they were so hard-worked and so busy about just gaining their daily bread, that they had no time for anything else.
Poor little Racey had never been in a town before.
Yet strange to say, the country round about this town was very--what people call picturesque, if you know what that means?
Those who study the reports of meetings of Town Councils learn many things.
ELLIS had ordered a "dumb" well at theTown Hall to be cleared out.
Burke Town is but starting into existence, but already supplies the settlers of the Flinders and other Gulf rivers with which it has opened communication.
Geillis Duncan was in the employment of David Seton, deputy-bailiff of the small town of Tranent, in Haddingtonshire.
I despatched my upper servant, breakfasted, fed the bantams as usual, and made no more hurry to town than Cincinnatus would if he had lost a basket of turnips.
So that he was compelled to send to Benia for another witch to take the witchcraft from him: who came to this town and washed him in water running south, and put him through a girth, with some other ceremonies that she used.
He repeats the common rumour that there is scarcely a town or village in the shire but has one or two witches in it.
He captures a town which the king had besieged for three months without success.
Really, you ought not to leave town without seeing it.
The next winter the town heard that Monsieur Edmond About's wounds had been well dressed and were cured, and that he was going to write in "Figaro.
When the fashion of long, flowing wigs was just vanishing in Boston, somebody wore one from that town down to Salem, where they were entirely extinct.
Well I know what there lies hidden, Every tower and town and farm, And again the land forbidden Reassumes its vanished charm.
Farémont took the child and her aunt in his carriage to the small neighboring town of Mamers.
No one went to bed;--indeed I believe half the town were up all the night.
Nothing remains for me but schoolmastership in a large town or my present plan.
To trace a happy phrase, good image, or new argument, running through the town and sliding into all the papers.
At length the time came, and I donned the blue coat and yellow stockings, and was sent down to Hertford, a town twenty miles from London, where there are about three hundred of the younger Blue-coat boys.
During his stay in town I saw him seldomer than usual; when I did see him, it was generally in the midst of large companies, where he is the image of power and activity.
In the flurry of anxiety I sent for the Crier of the town, and gave him the following to cry about the town and the beach, which he did with a gravity for which I am indebted to his stupidity.
Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?
Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
They stated that there was a town at the head of river navigation, at the junction of Sacramento and Feather Rivers, which offered inducements to a young lawyer.
They were delighted when they found I could speak French and insisted on showing me the town site.
It was the model town of the whole country for peacefulness and respect for law.
At the precinct in town where I had spoken, I had between three and four hundred majority, and in another precinct in the outskirts I had a majority of two to one.
I had seen it grow from a collection of tents with a few hundred occupants to a town of substantial buildings with a population of from eight to ten thousand inhabitants.
That made no difference, they said; they would let me have them on credit; they desired to build up the town and would let the lots go cheap to encourage its settlement.
But, said I, to avail ourselves of all these advantages we must organize and establish a government, and the first thing to be done is to call an election and choose magistrates and a town council.
The Pueblo of San Francisco was composed of a small population; but, as early as 1835, it was of sufficient importance to have an Ayuntamiento or Town Council, composed of alcaldes and other officers, for its government.
The mode of erecting these shanties was as follows: The planks were sawed the right length in the town of Vallejo or Benicia, in the afternoon of the day, and at nightfall were loaded upon a cart.
I went to the town of Nevada a little more than a week before the election.
In a short time after going to Marysville and writing my name down for sixty-five town lots, property increased ten-fold in value.
