76 adjectives to describe alleys

Taking the kitchen lamp down from its hook, I made my way from cellar to cellar, and room to room; through pantry and coal-holealong passages, and into the hundred-and-one little blind alleys and hidden nooks that form the basement of the old house.

Nevertheless, he took me up a narrow alley, unlocked a door, and I found myself in the cold, gloomy chamber of death.

Taking the kitchen lamp down from its hook, I made my way from cellar to cellar, and room to room; through pantry and coal-holealong passages, and into the hundred-and-one little blind alleys and hidden nooks that form the basement of the old house.

By my new plan, I shall be as airy, up four pair of stairs, as in the country; and in a garden, in the midst of enchanting, more than Mahometan paradise, London, whose dirtiest drab-frequented alley, and her lowest-bowing tradesman, I would not exchange for Skiddaw, Helvellyn, James, Walter, and the parson into the bargain.

It is a deserted alley in that new quarter which separates the Rue des Martyrs from the Rue Blanche.

Descending rapidly by a secret stair instead of entering the vestibule where half a dozen menials of different employments were in waiting, he passed by one of the narrow corridors of the palace into an inner court, and thence by a low and unimportant gate into an obscure alley which communicated with the nearest street.

After a lengthy discussion the old Moor goes, and Don Sanchez, having paid the reckoning, leads us out of the town by many crooked alleys and cross-passages; he speaking never a word, and we asking no questions, but marvelling exceedingly what is to happen next.

Patna, {160b} one of the largest and most ancient cities of Bengal, with a population of about 300,000 souls, {161} consists of a long, broad street, eight miles long, with numerous short alleys running into it.

The upper part of the town is the cleanest, for the simple reason that all filth and sewage runs down open gutters cut in the centre of the steep alleys, until it reaches the level of the plain.

It must have been a gloomy residence, notwithstanding the beautiful gardens with their broad alleys and great open spaces.

I turned down a muddy alley, where 12 or 15 placards headed "Body Found," were pasted against the wall.

It was rather sad, as we drove through the stately alleys of the Park of St. Cloud, with the setting sun shining through the fine old trees, to hear of all the fetes that used to take place there,and one could quite well fancy the beautiful Empress appearing at the end of one of the long avenues, followed by a brilliant suite of ladies and ecuyers,and the echoes of the cor de chasse in the distance.

Between Marquis Court on the one hand, Russell Court on the other, and a miserable alley called Cross Court which connects them, is what appears at first sight to be a solid block of tenements.

Gladly seek they the sun today; The Lord's Resurrection they celebrate: For they themselves have risen, with joy, From tenement sordid, from cheerless room, From bonds of toil, from care and annoy, From gable and roof's o'erhanging gloom, From crowded alley and narrow street, And from the churches' awe-breathing night All now have come forth into the light.

When we emerged from the cool alleys of Rome, and began to climb up and down the long, barren swells, the sun beat down on us with an almost summer heat.

They sat under the trees in the calm, cool twilight, with the stars twinkling above, and talked and laughed sociably together between the pauses of the music, or strolled up and down the lighted alleys.

One cannot imagine Dr. Johnson caring much for the minute observations of Tennyson's nature poems, or delighting in the verdurous and mossy alleys of Keats.

Up into a broad thoroughfare that rose on a steep slanta thoroughfare very different from the usual narrow, tortuous alleys of Arabian citiesthe swarm of horsemen swept, with a dull clatter of hoofs on the soft yellow pavement that gave almost like asphalt.

Our leading business men were departing from their establishments by back doors and the secrecy of gracious alleys.

Oft I roam in memory; Down the grand wide-arching alleys, Marged by plumy ferns and flowers, Whence all through the noontide hours Many a fearless leveret sallies; For amid those grassy alleys Never hound nor huntsman scours.

Oft I roam in memory; Down the grand wide-arching alleys, Marged by plumy ferns and flowers, Whence all through the noontide hours Many a fearless leveret sallies; For amid those grassy alleys Never hound nor huntsman scours.

Hideous little alleys led down to the water's edge where the high tide splashed over the stone steps.

They seemed infinitely larger than they were, since they abounded in intricate alleys, labyrinths, and mazes; so that you were easily lost within them, and sometimes wanted a clue to come forth.

He says, "It is a place of considerable size, and is in an unhealthy, muddy, and irregular blind alley.

The noises from the square belowthe clink of the donkey's hoofs upon the pavement as they struggled up the steep alley laden with charcoal; the screams of childrenthe clamor of women's voices moving to and fro with their wooden shoesand the boom of the church-bells sounding overhead for morning masscame to him as in a dream.

76 adjectives to describe  alleys