We knew this guy was big, smart and tough, but "Never Go Back" offers this description: "an extreme mesomorph physique, with a six-pack like a cobbled city street, and a chest like a suit of N.F.L. armor, and biceps like basketballs, and subcutaneous fat like a Kleenex tissue".
As fans of Lee Child's Jack Reacher series know, Reacher is an impressive physical specimen, built like an elite defensive end, 6 foot 5, 250 pounds with a "six-pack like a cobbled city street".
In 1901, the National League Senators having folded, the nascent American League, eager for the prestige of a presence in the Federal City, cobbled together a new version from the remains of the disbanded Kansas City Blues.
Leaders of the Korean American Federation of Los Angeles, which represents Korean American interests in the city, cobbled together $10, $20 and $100 donations and received financial help from the South Korean government.
The Cross Harbor tracks, which are also leased from the city, were cobbled together in 1984 from those belonging to two dying dock railroads.
The city contained cobbled streets and market squares, baskets of grapes on the fruit sellers' stands, merchants' houses with pillared balconies overlooking courtyards, individual bottles in the glassblowers' shops.
More than a thousand mansions, churches, government offices and other buildings have been restored to their colonial elegance along the city's cobbled lanes.
To defeat Mr. Villaraigosa in Tuesday's mayoral election, City Attorney James Hahn cobbled together one last victory for the old Los Angeles.
With its higgledy-piggledy streets and cobbled alleyways, Kraków is a city that lends itself to afternoons of contemplation in tucked-away cafés.
York probably has the best range of attractions of any English city outside London, although simply wandering the maze of cobbled, medieval streets within the well-maintained city walls is enough for many.
The Orlando suburb of 53,000 people had once welcomed tourists and visitors from neighboring communities, all of which were drawn to Sanford by its welcoming, cobble-stoned city center.
