Careful Words

city (n.)

city (adj.)

  He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

Old Testament: Proverbs xvi. 32.

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

Abraham Cowley (1618-1667): The Garden, ii.

As one who long in populous city pent,

Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 445.

  Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, . . . the city of the great King.

Old Testament: Psalm xlviii. 2.

O Rome! my country! city of the soul!

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 78.

  Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

New Testament: Matthew v. 14.