"It is very strange," he said, "that you should have come together again in such a country as America, and in a
small town too."
Rostov remembered Sventsyani, because on the first day of their arrival at that
small town he changed his sergeant major and was unable to manage all the drunken men of his squadron who, unknown to him, had appropriated five barrels of old beer.
After two hours and a half of this odd travelling (including a stoppage at a
small town, where we were saluted by a gun considerably bigger than our own chimney), we reached Hartford, and straightway repaired to an extremely comfortable hotel: except, as usual, in the article of bedrooms, which, in almost every place we visited, were very conducive to early rising.
In going hither and thither he observed in the outskirts of a
small town a red-and-blue placard setting forth the great advantages of the Empire of Brazil as a field for the emigrating agriculturist.
Beyond, the shore, strewed over with these rocks like gravestones, ascended, in form of an amphitheater among mastic-trees and cactus, a sort of
small town, full of smoke, confused noises, and terrified movements.
I do not know in the least how Goldsmith's Greece came into my hands, though I fancy it must have been procured for me because of a taste which I showed for that kind of reading, and I can imagine no greater luck for a small boy in a
small town of Southwestern Ohio well-nigh fifty years ago.
At last the boat stopped at a
small town, and Legree, with his party, disembarked.
Our man had successfully traced the lodgekeeper's daughter and her husband to a
small town in one of the Western States.
The answers were discouraging: There was a strong guard or police force; the Piraeus was a
small town, and any stranger seen in it would surely attract attention--capture would be certain.
At that time we were stationed in a
small town. I was quartered at an old widow's house, a lieutenant's widow of eighty years of age.
Hers was that gift of style which is as unmistakable as the gift of song and which, like it, is sometimes to be found unexpectedly in any village or
small town.
According to the Persian's account, Erik was born in a
small town not far from Rouen.
small town - a community of people smaller than a town