But the pressing disc of the battle-front which had been lowering on Chicago, greatest of Earth's metropolises, was lifted.
"Invaders from the Infinite"
John Wood Campbell
He was in Germany, in Berlin, in Vienna, and in Prague; always a lonely wanderer; quite alone; ignorant of the language, and listening only to the voice of the town itself, to the strange, sombre murmuring, to the surge of the European metropolises.
"Émile Verhaeren"
Stefan Zweig
Now, as London, the city I was going to, happened to be the capital of Anna Maria County, my boy, I made up my mind that the sacred soil had as many metropolises as railways.
"The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 1"
Robert H. Newell