Sentence examples for once stood here from inspiring English sources

Fifteen windmills once stood here alongside cannons, placed to defend the city.

Of the two dozen or so houses that once stood here, only a handful remained upright.

Twenty longhouses once stood here, with 30 to 40 people living in each.

Their design pays homage to the old warehouses and factories that once stood here.

We enjoyed this heavenly reward on the Path of the Gods, named for the Roman temples that once stood here.

This part of the island is a city park and has no buildings, but the scattered foundations show that houses once stood here.

We were sitting, sweating in the 110-degree heat at one end of a large courtyard of what in Africa is called a compound, a group of low buildings that looks more like a motel than the huts that once might have stood here.

A hamlet had stood here once, called Hitherowe, Hetherow, Hetherowfeyld.

I don't think I've stood here once without talking about injuries".

I stood here and he stood there, with his ladies slouched on all sides, and he did not avert his eyes or flinch, not even men's usual once.

Here once stood the 14th-century Castrum Portae Jovis – the Porta di Giove fortress – which was destroyed by the short-lived Aurea Republic of 1447.