1.  The city of Kyoto, the imperial capital, lies surrounded by hills and is frequently bathed in mists.

2.  This station was consciously designed to match the pretensions of a baroque imperial capital.

3.  Towns in the pre-Tokugawa years had, except for Kyoto the imperial capital, been fairly small scale.

4.  A state funeral in the former imperial capital of St. Petersburg, in effect a formal recognition of the monarchy after eight decades?

5.  For centuries, the Eternal City had spread like moss over and around the ruins of the imperial capital.

6.  He tries to make London look like an imperial capital.

7.  In a surprise announcement from the Kremlin, Yeltsin said Thursday he would attend the service in the former imperial capital of St. Petersburg.

8.  No sooner had Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror claimed Constantinople as his city and his imperial capital than he offered the Orthodox Church his protection.

9.  President Bush and President Vladimir Putin of Russia jointly stepped into the India-Pakistan crisis on Saturday during their one-day tour of this imperial Russian capital.

10.  The Chu state flourished between the eighth and third centuries B.C., far from the imperial capitals, and was once regarded by historians as a semibarbaric backwater.