Careful Words

town (n.)

town (v.)

town (adv.)

town (adj.)

  The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894): The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. vi.

Of all the floures in the mede,

Than love I most these floures white and rede,

Soch that men callen daisies in our toun.

Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400): Prologue of the Legend of Good Women. Line 41.

Rise up, rise up, Xarifa! lay your golden cushion down;

Rise up! come to the window, and gaze with all the town.

John G. Lockhart (1794-1854): The Bridal of Andalla.

God made the country, and man made the town.

William Cowper (1731-1800): The Task. Book i. The Sofa. Line 749.