Sentences with phrase «rode into towns»

He was making fun of the Roman senators who rode into towns on a white horse.

I am always sort of floored when folks come on to us like we just rode into town on a load of pumpkins!

When a royal emissary arrived in town, they would often borrow (or commandeer) a mount to ride into town on.

It was considered a privilege to have your mount used by the king or prince or general or famous teacher who was riding into town (cf. Gen 49:10 - 11).

While I was talking with Miguel his 75 - year - old grandson came riding into the town on horseback, looking vigorous and fit and exuding the vitality of a man far younger than his three quarters of a century.

Instead, the film would be about a clown who comes riding into town on a donkey; he's with a rather motley circus; he experiences the human failings of the circus people; he encounters Magnus, who wants to dominate and control; he substitutes himself for a poor human - puppet and is killed by Magnus.

Why doesn't he just ask his disciples to find him a ride into town?

He simply rode into the town, though well accompanied by notables, and all on the finest horses and in fine clothes.

I've always seen cowboys as the handsome, unshaven, lawless bastards riding into town to cause trouble.

All very bleak indeed, given this backdrop of gloom Tottenham Hotspurs and their frenetic work rate riding into town.

At the turn of this century, Spitzer rode into town vowing to clean up Wall Street.

Texas Governor, and noted former runner, Rick Perry rode into town Tuesday, appearing with Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino at a running store in Farmingdale.

Last month, Schumer rode into town to stand with Mayor Stephanie Miner in order to call attention to the properties.

«But I don't think he's something Napoleon would ride into town on.»

Continuing to offer brutal yet riotous amends to history, Quentin Tarantino rides into town with his head held high bearing Django Unchained, a «Southern» that is all Tarantino, ambition, gusto and flaws all bearing fruit in his longest picture yet.

Convenient then that the objects of their affections, Mr. Bingley (Simon Woods) for Jane, and the infamously standoffish Mr. Darcy (Matthew MacFadyen) for Elizabeth, are moneyed up to the kilt when they ride into town to stir trouble and steal hearts.

Just as Cleavon Little rode into town as Sheriff Bart in Blazing Saddles to white people in shock, Django deals with the same «southern hospitality.»

Synopsis: Gil Carter (Henry Fonda, My Darling Clementine) and Art Croft (Henry Morgan, Dragnet) ride into a town frustrated by the prevalence of cattle rustlers.

Early on, Evan Peters's flipper - fingered voice of reason displays a barely contained rage as a ready defender of his tribe of misfits against both the outside world and Michael Chiklis's strongman, who rides into town with his hermaphrodite wife, Desiree (Bassett), complicating already complicated matters for the freak menagerie.

Meinhard adopts a white horse, and even rides into town.

Bounty Hunter Morg Hickman (Henry Fonda) rides into town with a dead outlaw slung -LSB-...]

The pair eventually spend more time together — bike rides into the town, stops for drinks, resting by a lake.

Clooney's character does ride into town without a name but this movie could just as easily be about a Belgian assassin as an American one.

Robert Downey Sr. rides into town for a mini-festival of his movies, which he can't stop editing Read more

For example, I started writing about: the implementation of educational policy, when research at the time focused almost exclusively on the development of policy; the importance of qualitative methods, as a complement to quantitative methods that at the time ruled at the Ed School; the unheroic dimensions of leadership, when the focus was on the bigger - than - life hero who, like the Lone Ranger, rode into town with silver bullets.

Where Duncan finds himself now is a far cry from where he was when he rode into town with Obama in 2009.

It rides into town packing a third row of seats adults can actually fit into and the ability to tow up to 10,000 pounds.

That new car will ride into town on a newish platform — one that has been applauded in the Elantra SR Turbo application.

Whether something is «obsolete» is often subjective; you can still hook up a cart and horse to ride into town to buy groceries, and you can still read a paper book, so those old technologies could arguably be considered «not obsolete.»

HERE TO STAY by Kristine Raymond Hidden Springs # 1 Sam Mackenzie rode into the town of Hidden Springs looking for a place to belong.

It's quiet, yet only a 15 - minute walk or $ 5 taxi ride into town.

Drink in the relaxed atmosphere that is Sihanoukville, and if you have any energy left, take a short tuk - tuk ride into town or drink your way through the bars on the beach.

I was surprised by the conflicting vistas I saw during my 15 - minute taxi ride into town from the airport.

When you say yes to living an extraordinary life, doors will swing open like an old saloon door when the posse rides into town.

They'd make us fruit shakes and coffees on request and occasionally offered us a ride into town which saved us a few baht.

While Viking Ocean's small ships stop in ports the big ships can not visit, they are often a longer walk or shuttle ride into town.

Have a game of volleyball on the onsite volleyball court, or rent a few bikes and ride into town.

Literally steps away from the Shock Hill gondola station, guests have the option of taking a short ride to the lifts at either Peak 7 or Peak 8 or taking a daytime ride into town.

The resort is isolated, which is nice, but you need to get a ride into town.

Motos (motorbike taxis) or tuk - tuks (moto trailers) are usually about US$ 2 - 5 and air - conditioned car taxis are fixed at US$ 7 for a ride into town.

Belize's only international airport is Philip Goldson International Airport in Ladyville, which is 10 miles northwest of central Belize City, and is a $ US25 cab ride into town.

You can also get around by bike but it is quite a ride into town so if you are going all the way to town, use the golf cart.

The demo I got to play started out with a horseback ride into a town.

There's nothing quite like putting on a wide - brimmed hat and riding into a town that's just - barely civilised - a place with the whiff of the...

That fits the premise, given that the archetypal western is about the stranger riding into town to solve a problem.

Hopefully there will be no more delays until we find out and ride into town once again.

From riding into a town and shooting the sheriff in the head, to helping the sheriff stop bandits from robbing, either way you can make a living off of it.

Even if it's just a three - minute conversation during a carriage ride into town, you're always given some valuable bit of information or character development.

Gorgeous, sumptuous, thrilling: here comes Abstract Expressionism riding into town, the first major overview in London since its own contemporary heyday in the 1950s.

Baselitz rode into town on a much touted wave of Neo-Expressionism.