Sometimes it is described as an enchanted city that appears in certain moments.

The fort can be more accurately described as a walled city.

Downtown Portland, often described as a small big city, is less than 20 minutes from the airport.

All her stories take place in Florence which she describes as a "very secret city".

He had described it as a city lying in the south, but there was no large settlement for nearly sixty miles.

Strabo described it as a noteworthy city which was renowned for its trade.

Their environment can best be described as a "floating city."

Its culture is described only as "a city that desired to be at peace but should be ever ready for war".

Less well known, but more cleverly, he also described Chicago as a city where "someone is always forgetting to touch second."

In the 1980s, the city was described as a "divided city" east to west based on socioeconomic class.