Sentence examples for towns upon from inspiring English sources
In like manner the Persians took also the Ionian towns upon the mainland, not however netting the inhabitants, as it was not possible.
In August of that year, the local militia commander called out the militia after he received intelligence of "a party of French & Indians from Canada" who were "expected every hour to make some attaque on ye towns upon Connecticut River".
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS — America, that shining city upon a hill, seems ever more like a half-lit town upon a hummock.
The population are in the state of excitement that might be expected in the people of a town upon which the spotlights of the whole world are concentrated.
Detective Lt. Michael Richards of the Newton Police Department said it was not uncommon for sex offenders to be incarcerated there and move into town upon their release.
I went back and listened to Iris DeMent's Our Town, a song about holding on to your lover and kissing goodbye to the town where you were raised – a town upon which the sun is setting fast.
His conduct while serving his ban over the past two weeks also suggested that the egotism that prompted Rooney to declare "the big man was back in town" upon his late arrival at England's 2006 World Cup training camp has disappeared.
None fell as far as Ravenser Odd: in 1299, this trading port at the mouth of the Humber rivalled the newly chartered King's-town upon Hull for prestige and wealth; less than 70 years later, it had been swallowed up by the sea.
George Pürbach (1423-1461) whose real surname is unknown, was born in Pürbach, a town upon the confines of Bavaria and Austria.
In 1293 the town was acquired from the abbey by King Edward I, who on 1 April 1299 granted it a royal charter that renamed the settlement King's town upon Hull, or Kingston upon Hull.
Renamed Kings-town upon Hull by King Edward I in 1299, the town and city of Hull has served as market town, military supply port, a trading hub, fishing and whaling centre, and industrial metropolis.
