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  • He caught sight of the lady in the grey dress from time to time, as he spun and stomped his way across the municipal gardens.†   (source)
  • There are municipal parks and libraries in reconstruction, manicured courtyards, freshly painted buildings.†   (source)
  • Tacked to one wall was a municipal map of Mica.†   (source)
  • There was a photo of Antoine Thomas leaving the Tangerine County Municipal Building with the caption "Star quarterback Antoine Thomas leaves emergency meeting of the Tangerine County Sports Commission."†   (source)
  • She was on the Municipal Children's Martial Arts Team.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, like a jack-in-a-box, a lieutenant from the Dorsets popped up from the cellar of a municipal building that had been requisitioned for a headquarters.†   (source)
  • The police station smelled like burned coffee and very old wood, because, like most of Rosewood's municipal buildings, it was a former railroad baron's mansion.†   (source)
  • He rounded the curve at the bottom of our road and passed the small municipal park across from where the Gilberts lived.†   (source)
  • She'd only taken one stride when the house lit up like a municipal Christmas tree, and a siren started blaring.†   (source)
  • Several ran for public office, and there were two superior court justices, one municipal court judge, two members of the California state legislature, and one prominent state official.†   (source)
  • Every sanctioned and approved community must also be contained within a border—that's the law—and all travel between communities requires official written consent of the municipal government, to be obtained six months in advance.†   (source)
  • He explained that the last time he had been here, municipal police officers had arrived.†   (source)
  • Our command would find a municipality that was willing to have us come in and take down an actual building—an empty warehouse, say, or a house—something a little more authentic than you would find on a base.†   (source)
  • It's a small town, situated around seventy-five miles north of Sacramento, with its own municipal airport.†   (source)
  • Holmes acquired a ticket to a village called Englewood in the town of Lake, a municipality of 200,000 people that abutted Chicago's southernmost boundary.†   (source)
  • His father finished writing—a three-part series on a possible scandal in the municipal purchasing department.†   (source)
  • He had apparently become ill in his cell and been taken by car to the municipal hospital in The Hague.†   (source)
  • I strutted to the big concrete municipal-parking building, a three-tiered structure that was the pride of the city.†   (source)
  • He drove beneath a canopy of elms, then along a stretch of open shore, then past the municipal docks, where a woman in pedal pushers stood casting for bullheads.†   (source)
  • Most municipal systems were not functioning.†   (source)
  • The People's Republic of China admits or accepts no responsibility for Mr. Lee, the Government of Greater Hong Kong, or any of the citizens thereof, or for any violations of local law, personal injury, or property damage occurring in territories, buildings, municipalities, institutions, or real estate owned, occupied, or claimed by Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • Both women describe the city, before its mysterious and catastrophic plunge into the sea, as a clean and well-run municipality where you could walk safely almost any time of day or night.†   (source)
  • The municipal officer had a file and was shouting a lot.†   (source)
  • An attractive residential quarter of villas stood behind us and a municipal park full of trees in front of us.†   (source)
  • Dear Colleagues: As I am sure you are well aware, the April 5 municipal elections will have voters—for the second time—casting ballots on the school budget.†   (source)
  • In Cleveland we had Severance Hall, Cleveland Institute of Music, Settlement Music School, Mr. Harry Barnoff on bass, Cleveland Municipal Stadium along the shores of Lake Erie, home of the Cleveland Browns, Mr. Jim Brown, Jacobs Field, The Jake, Elliot Ness, Arsenio Hall and Mr. Henry Mancini, 'Moon River.'†   (source)
  • But Dr. Urbino told the municipal authorities that in Hamburg he had seen firemen revive a boy found frozen in a basement after a three-day snowstorm.†   (source)
  • We drove by the cedar-dotted municipal golf course on our left, and then, as we passed over a concrete dam, the lake sparkled below on our right.†   (source)
  • Up and down South Florida's heavily used shoreline, various municipalities had banned pets, and for good reason.†   (source)
  • One evening they were huddled together in this way, under a blanket, in the flickering light of a paraffin lamp, for there was no grid electricity in their part of the city anymore, and no piped gas or water, municipal services having entirely broken down, and Saeed said, "It feels natural to have you here."†   (source)
  • Wherever Willoughby went, there followed axiomatically a coterie of passive, mostly negative characters known as the Courthouse Crowd, specimens Willoughby had put into the various county and municipal offices to do as they were told.†   (source)
  • He had given up on the shops and had made his way through the municipal office, the library, and the pharmacy.†   (source)
  • And if we look at these flash points on a municipal map (see page facing), we can pick out Carrie's route-a wandering, looping path of destruction through the town, but one with an almost certain destination: home.†   (source)
  • Having made the switch, Dick had dropped the Iowa plates in a Municipal reservoir.†   (source)
  • NM: No African can be a member of the provincial council, of the municipal councils.†   (source)
  • D.N.Y. 1949]): No problem of foreign law is here involved, for it is well settled that "salvage is a question arising out of the jus gentium and does not ordinarily depend on the municipal law of particular countries."†   (source)
  • Franklin Borough had grown so confident of its unending prosperity that it built a new municipal building, so opulent in its gleaming white brick that it was nicknamed the Taj Mahal.†   (source)
  • If it wasn't from Misha, maybe it was from the man with glasses who worked at the Municipal Archives at 31 Chambers Street, the one who'd called me Miss Rabbit Meat.†   (source)
  • There were coachmen, storekeepers, and milkmen; later a few municipal employees and distinguished ladies made a discreet appearance, slinking along the side walls of the house to keep from being recognized.†   (source)
  • For she had but a single weapon against the world of crudity surrounding her: the books she took out of the municipal library, and above all, the novels.†   (source)
  • Perched on rolling hills east of San Diego, La Mesa was the quintessential American suburb with paved roads, a municipal sewer system, good schools, and plenty of parks and recreational areas.†   (source)
  • Ah, of course you know the story: How he bore the body into the strange city, and the speech he made as his Leader lay in state, and how when the sad news spread, a day of mourning was declared for the whole municipality.†   (source)
  • The television preachers—beamed to us from Baton Rouge, from Tulsa, from the Birmingham Municipal Auditorium—brought not only His Word, but salvation.†   (source)
  • The sun was shining on everything: Kiswana's gold earrings, the broken glass out on the avenue, the municipal buildings downtown—even on the stormy clouds that had formed on the horizon and were silently moving toward Brewster Place.†   (source)
  • First he'd have to go to a municipal office and get a new identity card, then to the U.S. embassy, for a business-visitor visa.†   (source)
  • Jurisdiction falls to the state of Texas and the municipality of Dallas.†   (source)
  • Now the movement has descended to the municipal level, with a town here or there passing an English-only ordinance, which has little effect.†   (source)
  • Most of all, they elude facile description, but they do possess a municipal character that has a lot to do with two centuries of scriptural belief that they are simply superior to other people of the earth.†   (source)
  • Sometimes he asked Lelia what a municipal employee did on trips to Providence or Ann Arbor or Richmond.†   (source)
  • Federal encroachment on state and municipal law-enforcement statutes.†   (source)
  • It's against the municipal code to burn refuse in the center of Rome, but I've taken care of that.†   (source)
  • The cities in the league had municipal jurisdiction, appointed their own officers, and were perfectly equal.†   (source)
  • I see in Lunaya Pravda that Luna City Council has passed on first reading a bill to examine, license, inspect—and tax—public food vendors operating inside municipal pressure.†   (source)
  • He came to Sweden to tell the world that the local work of poets and dramatists had been as important to the transformation of his native place and times as the ambushes of guerrilla armies; and his boast in that elevated prose was essentially the same as the one he would make in verse more than a decade later in his poem "The Municipal Gallery Revisited".†   (source)
  • Three-thirty tomorrow morning, local time, at Orlando Municipal.†   (source)
  • The city was hers, as, made up and sleeked so with the customary words and images (cosmopolitan, culture, cable cars) it had not been before: she had sale-passage tonight to its far blood's branchings, be they capillaries too small for more than peering into, or vessels mashed together in shameless municipal hickeys, out on the skin for all but tourists to see.†   (source)
  • Instead, I found myself at Gracie Square on the promenade by the river, gazing as if in a trance at the municipal hideousness of the river islands, unable to efface the mangled image of Bobby Weed from my mind even as I kept murmuring—endlessly it seemed—lines from Revelation I had memorized as a boy: And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.†   (source)
  • MAYOR (Sincerely) Mr. Matthew Harrison Brady, this municipality is proud to haze within its city limits the warrior who has always fought for us ordinary people.†   (source)
  • Apparently the municipality had asked him to lend them the support of his authority.†   (source)
  • The municipality sends special men to do that, but the other work can be done by anyone.†   (source)
  • He had been clerk in the post office, something on the railways, had finally inspected watermeters for the municipality.†   (source)
  • We have people in the police force, and all the municipal departments.†   (source)
  • Tomorrow morning, he will be taking her to First Municipal, where she can recover in comfort.†   (source)
  • In a funny way, it reminded him of the municipal golf course in his hometown in New Jersey.†   (source)
  • I held my breath as I read the first words: "Respected Comrades of the Municipal Party Committee."†   (source)
  • The engineers of the concerned municipality sawed off the tusks and shared them unofficially.†   (source)
  • On the afternoon of the Mother's Day celebration, three municipal police visit the camp.†   (source)
  • An engineer from the Ettumanoor municipality was supervising the disposal of the carcass.†   (source)
  • The municipal police, dressed in green and white, used dogs.†   (source)
  • It looked more like a hotel, some kind of municipal building.†   (source)
  • Captain Aquiles Ricardo, the commander of the garrison, took over the exercise of municipal power.†   (source)
  • This was Ocean Drive, wasn't it, in the municipality of Miami Beach.†   (source)
  • Treaties and the laws of nations may seem different than municipal laws.†   (source)
  • An elected municipal legislature will exercise authority over them.†   (source)
  • The judicial power of every government looks beyond local or municipal laws.†   (source)
  • I think they must've dropped a five-megaton missile on McCoy and another on Orlando municipal.†   (source)
  • Fronted by a lush lawn and palm trees, the Union Passenger Terminal had opened in 1954, an art deco–style building once aspiring to grandness but since overtaken by a certain grey municipal malaise.†   (source)
  • The corpses of people and horses killed by shrapnel lay about the streets, whole areas of the city were in flames, and now that the municipal waterworks had been damaged by artillery and bombs no attempt could be made to extinguish the fires.†   (source)
  • Cartographers create fictional landmarks, streets, and municipalities and place them obscurely into their maps.†   (source)
  • She passed a tiny municipal park with a tennis court on which two men in flannels were hitting a ball back and forward, warming up for a game with lazy confidence.†   (source)
  • There were already people around, wandering the municipal gardens—now in midwinter, little more than a large grassy field with, here and there, some steps, a shrub, a statue.†   (source)
  • Chicago's "feeling of humiliation" was not surprising, the New York Times said; anyone familiar with the saga "must be amazed at the failure of the municipal police department and the local prosecuting officers not only to prevent those awful crimes, but even to procure any knowledge of them."†   (source)
  • The rest of the table was occupied by provincial and municipal officials and last year's beauty queen, whom the Governor escorted to the seat next to him.†   (source)
  • Columns of smoke rose above the Kremlin walls from the bonfires of classified files, while in the streets municipal and factory workers, who had not been paid in months, watched with seasoned foreboding as the eternally lit windows of the old fortress began to go dark one by one.†   (source)
  • A police inspector had come forward with a very young medical student who was completing his forensic training at the municipal dispensary, and it was they who had ventilated the room and covered the body while waiting for Dr. Urbino to arrive.†   (source)
  • I looked at the letter—the thick, heavy letter that Mom and Uncle Tian had written to the Municipal Party Committee.†   (source)
  • When the team went to Regionals it was only the third time I'd ever been out of Portland, and even though we went just forty miles along the gray, bleak municipal highway, I could still hardly swallow, the butterflies in my throat were so frantic.†   (source)
  • Any municipal jail, he figured, expects many of their prisoners to leave within a day or two, through bonds or dropped charges or any number of outcomes for the small-time offender.†   (source)
  • But where her bus always turned right, this one turned left, into the Old Town, past the municipal gardens in the Old Town square, past the statue of Josiah Worthington, Bart.†   (source)
  • Twice a week for a small fee, Kochu Maria's brother-in-law who drove the yellow municipal garbage truck in Kottayam would drive into Ayemenem (heralded by the stench of Kottayam's refuse, which lingered long after he had gone) to divest his sister-in-law of her salary and drive the Plymouth around to keep its battery charged.†   (source)
  • He had forgotten the prohibitions on leaving the graveyard, forgotten that tonight in the graveyard on the hill the dead were no longer in their places; all that he thought of was the Old Town, and he trotted through it down to the municipal gardens in front of the Old Town Hall (which was now a museum and tourist information center, the town hall itself having moved into much more imposing, if newer and duller, offices halfway across the city).†   (source)
  • Once, he was just fifteen miles inside Mexico, in Tapachula, when two municipal police officers grabbed him and put him in the back of their pickup.†   (source)
  • The walls sweat and the trolleys cough and shudder, and every day people gather in front of the municipal buildings, praying for a brief blast of cold air whenever the mechanized doors swoosh open because a regulator or politician or guard has to go in and out.†   (source)
  • "We urgently hope," the letter concluded, "that the Municipal Party Committee will investigate this situation and correct it before it is too late."†   (source)
  • On the twenty-third of June at four in the afternoon, Andrey Duras was riding the bus back to his apartment in the Arbat, having taken advantage of his day off to visit Sofia at First Municipal Hospital.†   (source)
  • They were carrying a letter from the Governor of the Province to the municipal officials of San Juan de la Cienaga, in which it was documented for all time that this was the first mail transported through the air.†   (source)
  • The Municipal Party Committee has directed that no searches are allowed without permission of the police.†   (source)
  • At the Tapachula train station, fights break out between municipal and state police officers over who gets to rob a group of migrants.†   (source)
  • The noble palace of the Marquis de Casalduero, whose existence and coat of arms had never been documented, was sold to the municipal treasury for a decent price, and then resold for a fortune to the central government when a Dutch researcher began excavations to prove that the real grave of Christopher Columbus was located there: the fifth one so far.†   (source)
  • Five pickups have coasted silently up to the cemetery with their lights out, filled with municipal police.†   (source)
  • Octavio Lozano Gamez, the municipal police chief in Nuevo Laredo, acknowledges that of his 720 employees, "a small minority of police officers in the city have this problem of robbing people."†   (source)
  • Municipal and state police would beat migrants, sometimes take their money, then throw them into the back of their trucks, says Julio Cesar Trujillo Velasquez, a spokesman for the Diocese of Orizaba.†   (source)
  • Leonicio Alejandro Hernandez, thirty-three, says that four municipal officers approached him on the banks of the Rio Grande and said, "We charge a thousand pesos [$100] to cross this river."†   (source)
  • I accompanied the Tapachula municipal police on a dawn raid of the cemetery, did a tour of the cemetery with its caretaker, and visited the crypt where Enrique had slept.†   (source)
  • Here comes a cop in municipal bulk with a gun and cuffs and a flashlight and a billy club all jigging on his belt and a summons pad wadded in his pocket.†   (source)
  • He got the C's and ran a shaking finger down to CASTLE ROCK MUNICIPAL SERVICES in a boxed-off section halfway down one column.†   (source)
  • And shrewd municipal buyers started to scratch their heads and wonder why they were shelling out 1,700 kronor when they could get a similar toilet from Thailand for 500.†   (source)
  • Twisted neck and used binox; could see nothing but ribbon city, hundred-plus kilometers long, Denver-Pueblo Municipal Strip.†   (source)
  • But Monday the rain didn't stop and Misha didn't call, so I put my raincoat on, found an umbrella, and headed out for the New York City Municipal Archives, which, according to the internet, is where they keep the records of births and deaths.†   (source)
  • She took her old black tailored suit from the wardrobe, arranged the hairpins in her bun, and went with Alba to bury the Frenchman in the main cemetery, in a municipal grave, which was where the poor ended up, because Senator Trueba refused to make room for him in the salmon-colored mausoleum.†   (source)
  • At noon, while General Moncada was lunching with Ursula, a rebel cannon shot that echoed in the whole town blew the front of the municipal treasury to dust.†   (source)
  • It left him on a beach that the rain had made the color of municipal concrete, staring at the ten minutes of robins-egg blue hanging in the air over Istria.†   (source)
  • He began by saying that he was an MK saboteur who had blown up a municipal office, a power pylon, and an electricity line.†   (source)
  • He succeeded in having Macondo raised to the status of a municipality and he was therefore its first mayor, and he created an atmosphere of confidence that made people think of the war as an absurd nightmare of the past.†   (source)
  • Depending on degree of danger, they will charge their customers—the corporation or government or municipality—between three hundred dollars and twelve hundred dollars per kilo.†   (source)
  • …blockade of itinerant vendors hawking the wonders of this grindstone, that toasted peanut, this little doll that dances by itself without a single wire or thread, look for yourself, run your hand over it; a whirlwind of garbage dumps, food stands, factories, cars hurtling into carriages and sweat-drawn trolleys, as they called the old horses that hauled the municipal transport; a heavy breathing of crowds, a sound of running, of scurrying this way and that, of impatience and schedules.†   (source)
  • NM: Yes, that is what I am talking about, I am talking about Parliament and other government bodies of the country, the provincial councils, the municipal councils.†   (source)
  • Oh, minor problems—start compressing city's air while evacuating people, so as to save it; decompress fully at end to minimize damage; move as much food as was time for; cofferdam accesses to lower farm tunnels; so forth—all things we knew how to do and with stilyagi and militia and municipal maintenance people had organization to do.†   (source)
  • UNTIL 1960, the University College of Fort Hare, in the municipality of Alice, about twenty miles due east from Healdtown, was the only residential center of higher education for blacks in South Africa.†   (source)
  • Treaties and the laws of nations may seem proper for federal jurisdiction and municipal laws for State jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • And it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to decide if a case falls under federal or municipal jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • The definition of "piracies" might be left to the law of nations, even though most municipal codes define them.†   (source)
  • There are glaring abuses, there is speculation on a gigantic scale, but what are our regional and municipal factory committees doing?†   (source)
  • There's the nationalization of all enterprises, but the municipal soviet needs fuel, and the Provincial Economic Council wants transportation.†   (source)
  • I call upon you to obey the orders of your local Civil Defense directors, state and municipal authorities, and of the military.†   (source)
  • What good were the municipal bonds of Tampa, Jacksonville, and Miami when there were no municipalities?†   (source)
  • There are people from the Municipality working amongst the squatters, and they know them all.†   (source)
  • However, he rang up the Municipal Office.†   (source)
  • Well, go back to when I was a kid in the municipal swimming pool.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, government and municipal officials were putting their heads together.†   (source)
  • The municipal clerk had two rooms, both very sparsely furnished.†   (source)
  • It was one of his former patients, a clerk in the Municipal Office, ringing him up.†   (source)
  • Rieux asked Grand if he was doing extra work for the municipality.†   (source)
  • He was twenty-three when a rival political gang, intent on winning a municipal election and needing a newspaper to plug a certain issue, bought the Gazette.†   (source)
  • Conway was not apt to be easily impressed, and as a rule he did not care for "views," especially the more famous ones for which thoughtful municipalities provide garden seats.†   (source)
  • Then he looked at a municipal clock in the courthouse tower and then at the sun, with an expression of exasperation and outrage.†   (source)
  • He signed up at the municipal college, with the idea that everyone had then of preparing for one of the Civil-Service examinations.†   (source)
  • It had already destroyed somebody's bamboo hut, killed a cow and raided some fruit-stalls and devoured the stock; also it had met the municipal rubbish van and, when the driver jumped out and took to his heels, had turned the van over and inflicted violences upon it.†   (source)
  • Actually the municipality had not contemplated doing anything at all, but now a meeting was convened to discuss the situation.†   (source)
  • We found out at the tourist office what we ought to pay for a motor-car to Pamplona and hired one at a big garage just around the corner from the Municipal Theatre for four hundred francs.†   (source)
  • Lincoln himself added a section requiring the municipal authorities of Washington and Georgetown to provide "active and efficient means" of arresting and restoring to their owners all fugitive slaves escaping into the District.†   (source)
  • Every Sunday in summer I used to drive out to the municipal beach and watch him dive off the high tower.†   (source)
  • Already half a mile of concrete road lay between bare clay banks, and on either side a checker of open ditches showed where the municipal contractors had designed a system of drainage.†   (source)
  • ' A new municipal government, set up under Allied Military Government direction, had gone to work at last in the city hall.†   (source)
  • Then he would talk about Memphis, the city, in a vague and splendid way, as though all his life he had been incumbent there of some important though still nameless municipal office.†   (source)
  • I'd dive off municipal pier and swim straight out to Diamond Key and past it, and keep on swimming till sharks and barracuda took me for live bait, brother.†   (source)
  • They lie together; Sophiatown, where any may own property, Western Native Township which belongs to the Municipality of Johannesburg, and Claremont, the garbage-heap of the proud city.†   (source)
  • Over the way, the subject of much ironical comment, half hidden even in winter by its embosoming trees, lay the municipal lunatic asylum, whose cast-iron railings and noble gates put our rough wire to shame.†   (source)
  • It was all right when people took cracks at his yachts and women and a few municipal election scandals—which were never proved," he added hastily.†   (source)
  • He thought that men had been willing to work for him when he plugged known crooks for municipal elections, when he glamorized red-light districts, when he ruined reputations by scandalous libel, when he sobbed over the mothers of gangsters.†   (source)
  • After this it wasn't hard for Jimmy to induce me to go downtown with him, especially on science afternoons, to ride, if there was nothing better to do, in the City Hall elevator with his brother Tom, from the gilded lobby to the Municipal Courts.†   (source)
  • Simon was wised up as to how to do things politically--to be in a position to bid on municipal business--and he saw wardheelers and was kissing-cousins with the police; he took up with lieutenants and captains, with lawyers, with real-estate men, with gamblers and bookies, the important ones who owned legitimate businesses on the side and had property.†   (source)
  • One evening Cottard and Tarrou went to the Municipal Opera House, where Gluck's Orpheus was being given.†   (source)
  • Tarrou gives an account of a visit he made, accompanied by Rambert, to the camp located in the municipal stadium.†   (source)
  • When the rats had been collected, two municipal trucks were to take them to be burned in the town incinerator.†   (source)
  • And now, in addition to his duties in the Municipal Office, he had his night work and his secretarial post under Rieux.†   (source)
  • This was, in fact, the entry that he made each month in the staff register at the Municipal Office, in the column Post in Which Employed.†   (source)
  • The townspeople were advised to practice extreme cleanliness, and any who found fleas on their person were directed to call at the municipal dispensaries.†   (source)
  • Then a municipal employee had an idea that greatly helped the harassed authorities; he advised them to employ the streetcar line running along the coastal road, which was now unused.†   (source)
  • For the magistrate, however, no accommodation was available except in an isolation camp the authorities were now installing in the municipal stadium, using tents supplied by the highway department.†   (source)
  • Grand's duties as clerk in the Municipal Office were varied, and he was sometimes employed in the statistical department on compiling the figures of births, marriages, and deaths.†   (source)
  • We find in them a minute description of the two bronze lions adorning the Municipal Office, and appropriate comments on the lack of trees, the hideousness of the houses, and the absurd lay-out of the town.†   (source)
  • Finding that the public appetite for this type of literature was still unsated, they had researches made in the municipal libraries for all the mental pabulum of the kind available in old chronicles, memoirs, and the like.†   (source)
  • He would settle down at it with his papers, exactly as he settled down at his desk in the Municipal Office, and wave each completed sheet to dry the ink in the warm air, noisome with disinfectants and the disease itself.†   (source)
  • Even before you knew what his employment was, you had a feeling that he'd been brought into the world for the sole purpose of performing the discreet but needful duties of a temporary assistant municipal clerk on a salary of sixty-two francs, thirty centimes a day.†   (source)
  • These fruitless interviews had thoroughly worn out the journalist; on the credit side he had obtained much insight into the inner workings of a municipal office and a Prefect's headquarters, by dint of sitting for hours on imitation-leather sofas, confronted by posters urging him to invest in savings bonds exempt from income-tax, or to enlist in the colonial army; and by dint of entering offices where human faces were as blank as the filingcabinets and the dusty records on the shelves…†   (source)
  • From the dark harbor soared the first rocket of the firework display organized by the municipality, and the town acclaimed it with a long-drawn sigh of delight.†   (source)
  • A serious view was taken of these lapses of attention, as the municipality not only was working at high pressure with a reduced staff, but was constantly having new duties thrust upon it.†   (source)
  • He then learned that the contingency was the possibility of his falling ill and dying of plague; the data supplied would enable the authorities to notify his family and also to decide if the hospital expenses should be borne by the municipality or if, in due course, they could be recovered from his relatives.†   (source)
  • I returned with a municipal guard, who turned them out.†   (source)
  • Fifty thousand Socialist votes in Chicago means a municipal-ownership Democracy in the spring!†   (source)
  • Mrs. Fisher's latest hobby was municipal reform.†   (source)
  • A municipality was established and the following announcement issued: INHABITANTS OF MOSCOW!†   (source)
  • Theatrical performances can only take place by permission of the municipal authorities.†   (source)
  • This is prerogative, and not to be limited by our municipal rules.†   (source)
  • The organization of the municipal bodies or townships differs in the several States.†   (source)
  • Of course it will be necessary to raise a municipal loan.†   (source)
  • The municipal doctor comes and says, 'A nun has died.†   (source)
  • Municipal expenses exist in both countries, but they are not always analogous.†   (source)
  • Mark my words, Mr. Hovstad—the Baths will become the focus of our municipal life!†   (source)
  • The municipal guardsmen were attended to first.†   (source)
  • America is therefore pre-eminently the country of provincial and municipal government.†   (source)
  • Do you mean that it must come out of the municipal funds?†   (source)
  • The municipal guard burst into a laugh and raised his bayonet at the child.†   (source)
  • It may, moreover, be asked what is to be understood by the municipal expenses of America.†   (source)
  • The whole of our flourishing municipal life derives its sustenance from a lie!†   (source)
  • THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE MUNICIPAL POLICE.†   (source)
  • Many of the Municipal Guards, on being wounded, in the Rue des Lombards, retreated.†   (source)
  • Such, for instance, is the budget of a municipality.†   (source)
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