What is "sister cities"

Usage examples of "sister cities".

For all that the barren land through which they passed swarmed with ruffians of every description and for all that it was well known that among his wagons was the three-month payroll of the northern garrison and that of the government officials of the sister cities, not to mention stocks of food, wines, clothing, equipment and special consignments of luxury items, few banditti were willing to take on three hundred infantry and nearly a hundred horsemen.

Whoever they were, they were honoured here, in this city and no doubt its sister cities throughout Raraku.

Like her sister cities she was built of brick, but where Astapor had been red and Yunkai yellow, Meereen was made with bricks of many colors.

Vazkor was occupied in sending and receiving messages across the snow wastes to Ezlann's five sister Cities, and had no time for me.

Unlike its sister cities, Mountain Heart spilled well out beyond the mountain into which it was cut.

Atlanta had always been musical and loved good music, despite the sneering comments of sister cities of the South con­.

Another time, Joe torpedoed a big Sister Cities convention planned for Miami after learning that a few of the participants came from Eastern bloc countries.

There was a good deal about which of Kine-Gather's sister cities would share but subordinately in her fortune, and expiate their various crimes against her with shovel-work in her offal-yards.

Do you not think our two sister cities might exchange hospitality with its important families?

Its loss to Ar had already riven an empire and, for the time at least, had guaranteed the independence of Ko-ro-ba and her hostile sister cities.

High in the sky, at opposite ends of the valley, floated the sister cities.