Deaths and injuries in the colliery marked all village life.
Farther up the hill, a field of jagged headstones marked the village cemetery.
In Guzmán, there existed two dozen or so caves burrowed in the hill that marked the village's northern boundary.
Drive into the hills and you soon come upon village after village marked at its entrance with the sign "THE MARTYRED VILLAGE OF —." These are villages where the Germans rounded up the residents and slaughtered them, then killed the livestock and salted the ground, with the intention that no one would live there again for generations to come.
At the western end of the beach – where nudity is mandatory – a channel marks the village limits.
And in the summer of 2007 they will be exhibited in a show at the Sag Harbor Whaling Museum marking the village's 300th anniversary.
Within two minutes, the young men from No. 47 reached a little dirt road marking the village perimeter, which they were to hold, but there were no people in sight except American soldiers.
A perfect place, in other words, for a cinderblock Dollar General store, which now straddles Highway 20, a two-minute walk from the gazebo that marks the village center.
He had grown up in a village marked by a sign for the E6 hiking trail that runs from Finland to the Aegean.
Thirty years ago, Shenzhen was not so different to home: a small fishing village marked out only by its proximity to Hong Kong.
His novel Balade de câmpie (1963; "Ballads of the Steppes"), an investigation of the psychology of the village, marked a significant turning point in the evolution of Moldovan fiction, and his play Casa Mare (1962; "The Parlour") turned away from the concept of collectivity to probe the individual conscience.
