In the shade and sun of grass blade forests, small living things had their metropolis. From LearnThat.org. [Nancy Price]
The term metropolis comes from two Greek words meter and polis, or "mother-city.". From Wordnik.com. [orrologion] Reference
Vespasian marched against "Gadara," which he calls the metropolis of. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays] Reference
"If anything could spoil his temper, it is a day in what he calls the metropolis of Philistinism.". From Wordnik.com. [The Puritans] Reference
A second and more artificial cause of the growth of a metropolis is the residence of a monarch, the expense of a luxurious court, and the tributes of dependent provinces. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
Our town has less than 10k people, nearest metropolis is over 2 hours away. From Wordnik.com. [» Why I Love the Suburbs Strocel.com] Reference
Tropical Panama is the only Latin American metropolis with a rainforest within city limits. From Wordnik.com. [Off the Beaten Track: Panama City] Reference
I would lay this down as an economic axiom, that the greatest factor in making or marring a commercial metropolis is the ease and cost of freight handling and transportation. From Wordnik.com. [Some Aspects of Commercial Value to the City of Toronto of the Proposed Harbour Improvements] Reference
We have crossed the continent in four days and twenty hours – thanks to Mr. Foley – and the distance between New York and the Western metropolis is reduced by a whole day. From Wordnik.com. [In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World] Reference
Richard's desire to go to the metropolis was a natural one. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Dare's Venture] Reference
The journey from our town to the metropolis was a journey of about five hours. From Wordnik.com. [Great Expectations] Reference
The metropolis is the index of capacity for good and ill in a national civilization. From Wordnik.com. [Horace and His Influence] Reference
Rushdie returns to the city in The Moor's Last Sigh, writing that the metropolis was a. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] Reference
Chicago may be called the metropolis of American corn -- the favorite city haunt of the. From Wordnik.com. [North America — Volume 1] Reference
Chicago may be called the metropolis of American corn — the favorite city haunt of the. From Wordnik.com. [North America] Reference
The metropolis is a teeming, populous graveyard; life in it encourages a postmortem vision. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-05-01] Reference
He boasts that he built it for the house of the kingdom, that is, the metropolis of his empire. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
Romish clergy, and may, with no impropriety, be called the metropolis of the kingdom of darkness. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies] Reference
By this time it had become so important that it had good right to be called the metropolis of the country. From Wordnik.com. [St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh] Reference
Among the thousands who on that occasion flocked to the metropolis were my mother and her two little girls. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor] Reference
A second and more artificial cause of the growth of a metropolis is the residence of a monarch, the expense of. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6] Reference
Columnists quickly put Lindsay's offhand remark in capital letters, ironically dubbing the metropolis Fun City. From Wordnik.com. [Jacksonville Business News - Local Jacksonville News | Jacksonville Business Journal] Reference
For war-ravaged Berliners, the metropolis was a more urgent fantasy: make order out of chaos, redeem national pride. From Wordnik.com. [How Yesterday Saw Tomorrow] Reference
On the Sunday following the serious stage in the King's illness the metropolis was the scene of many special services. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V] Reference
I ought to have remembered that the most metropolitan thing in the metropolis is a rustic who's putting in a week there. From Wordnik.com. [The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories] Reference
Nueva York historian Mike Wallace says that by the late 1880s, the metropolis was the sugar refining capital of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Exhibit Explores New York's Latin Roots] Reference
So if I leave Saturday, then I have all day Sunday to get situated and check out the booming metropolis which is Eugene Oregon. From Wordnik.com. [unclebob Diary Entry] Reference
So I never write 'metropolis' for seven cents, because I can get the same money for 'city.'. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain's Speeches] Reference
"metropolis" spanning 67 acres of the Las Vegas Strip, will go the new-media route. From Wordnik.com. [Advertising Age - Homepage] Reference
What holds the show together, more or less, is the vision of the metropolis. From Wordnik.com. [How Yesterday Saw Tomorrow] Reference
The image of the new metropolis didn't just rise up from the architect's drafting table. From Wordnik.com. [How Yesterday Saw Tomorrow] Reference
The surrounding town was dowdier than the metropolis adjoining university A, but so what?. From Wordnik.com. [Back In College] Reference
The destitute town was once a wealthy Roman metropolis where money was minted in the fourth century. From Wordnik.com. [A New Source Of Old Coins] Reference
In that film, he led unsuspecting tourists on literary, existential bus excursions through the metropolis. From Wordnik.com. [Where The Buffalo (Might) Roam] Reference
Years after he designed his "high-Rise City," even Hillberseimer denounced it as "more a necropolis than a metropolis.". From Wordnik.com. [How Yesterday Saw Tomorrow] Reference
It's a shame because Baghdad is a big, bustling metropolis of 5 million people, and most Iraqis are genuinely friendly toward Americans. From Wordnik.com. [AVOIDING THE CROSS HAIRS] Reference
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