I wanted my Man About Town. He was a type, and to drop him would be an error--a typograph--but no!
I went into a cafe to -- and while it was being mixed I asked the man who grabs up your hot Scotch spoon as soon as you lay it down what he undcrstood by the term, epithet, description, designation, characterisation or appellation, viz.: a "Man About Town."
The Four Million
From out the hill-side spouted fountains in thick streams of water, so that there was a continual splashing; and close beside them sat an old king with a golden crown upon his white head: that was King Hroar, near the fountains, close to the town of Roeskilde, as it is now called.
The town takes its name from King Hroar, and the many fountains in the neighborhood.
Andersens Fairy Tales
Our own house looked down over the town, and from our upstairs windows we could see the winding line of the river bluffs, two miles south of us.
We came to Black Hawk in March, and by the end of April we felt like town people.
My Antonia
'But, doubtless, you have had a long enough walk,' said he, turning towards the
town, to which I now proceeded leisurely to retrace my steps; and he walked beside me.
Agnes Grey
With a shiver of dread the boy arose and went along the road toward
town. "I'll not ask him about his hands," he thought, touched by the memory of the terror he had seen in the man's eyes.
Winesberg Ohio
In strange
towns I made immediate acquaintances in the saloons.
John Barleycorn
In Texas, on the contrary, the
towns are much more numerous and important.
From The Earth To The Moon
"It's a rigmarole because the boy is a Rigmarole and we've come to Rigmarole
Town."
The Emerald City of Oz
And one day when an old lady with rheumatism came to see the Doctor, she sat on the hedgehog who was sleeping on the sofa and never came to see him any more, but drove every Saturday all the way to Oxenthorpe, another
town ten miles off, to see a different doctor.
Story of Doctor Dolittle
Ask your father, therefore, to have a waggon and mules ready for us at daybreak, to take the rugs, robes, and girdles, and you can ride, too, which will be much pleasanter for you than walking, for the washing-cisterns are some way from the
town."
Odyssey
At this there was bustling at the Sheriff's castle, and men ran hither and thither upon this business and upon that, while the forge fires of Nottingham glowed red far into the night like twinkling stars, for all the smiths of the
town were busy making or mending armor for the Sheriff's troop of escort.
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
But the dull country
town was tiresome to him, since his acquaintanceship with livelier regions, and it grew daily more and more so.
Puddnhead Wilson