The town lay under siege for more than a year before it finally gave up on 9 October 1391.

Another small town, Chennapatnam, lay to the south of it.

Before the turn of the century this town lay awash in wealth.

But for the most part the town lay asleep.

The town of his birth lay before him in the evening sunshine.

Or, as Mebbekew put it, the best town in the world for getting laid.

The town itself lay in a pool of impenetrable dark.

The storm killed 200 people and the town lay in ruins.

G-8 asked, knowing that the town lay only about three miles from there.

You got to remember this old town lay right on the big road to Atlanta.