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  • Do you know the other name for this city-the Kakatanawa name?

    The Skrayling Tree Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 2003

  • Any who walked its streets and byways felt Tarsis had the pulse of a port city-the drumbeat of voices in the marketplace, women shouting to children, potters at the whining wheel, dwarf forgemen shouting to be heard above their own anvils.

    Dalamar the Dark Berberick, Nancy Varian 2000

  • At noon of this day, every level of the city would be flooded with brilliant light, and at the very base of the city-the deeps of the great firewell around which the smelters roared-the living flame of Thorin would be renewed by the direct, focused light of the sun, magnified and amplified by huge lenses of clear, perfect quartz high above.

    The Covenant of the Forge Parkinson, Dan 1993

  • At noon of this day, every level of the city would be flooded with brilliant light, and at the very base of the city-the deeps of the great firewell around which the smelters roared-the living flame of Thorin would be renewed by the direct, focused light of the sun, magnified and amplified by huge lenses of clear, perfect quartz high above.

    The Covenant of the Forge Parkinson, Dan 1993

  • But the evening newscasts were agog with the story of the storm: coiffed and pancaked anchorpersons quivered with excitement while reporters at various strategic locations around the city-the airports, the train and bus terminals, the Department of Public Works headquarters, the major highway bottlenecks-stood out in the wet snow and solemnly reported how the city almost had been hit by a crisis.

    Cyberbooks Bova, Ben, 1932- 1989

  • But the evening newscasts were agog with the story of the storm: coiffed and pancaked anchorpersons quivered with excitement while reporters at various strategic locations around the city-the airports, the train and bus terminals, the Department of Public Works headquarters, the major highway bottlenecks-stood out in the wet snow and solemnly reported how the city almost had been hit by a crisis.

    Cyberbooks Bova, Ben, 1932- 1989

  • This time it had been an old monastery about forty miles outside the city-the last ten miles of which had been over roads that were probably dirt in summertime but were a mixture of mud and snow now.

    The Cardinal of the Kremlin Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1988

  • When I said the other day, Montreal City-the largest City in Canada, yea-a big city-prosperous city-the largest number of unemployed people in Montreal.

    Free Enterprise in Canada 1972

  • The City Hall in Toronto is the hub of the city-the place to which tourists come and stare; the place that one remembers as Toronto, even if one is thousands of miles away.

    Town Planning 1944

  • Soon, in the suburbs of Cairo we have a glimpse of the environments of this great African city-the greatest as well as one of the oldest in Africa with nearly a million inhabitants, of which practically only fifty thousand are of European races.

    The Cape to Cairo Railway and River Route 1920

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