18 Metaphors for avenues

To Ferragut this famous avenue of Marseilles was a reminder of the antechamber of Salonica.

Pennsylvania Avenue, when they reached it, was a billowy channel of impalpable powder.

Lackawanna Avenue is the principal thoroughfare in the city of Scranton.

In heat and in cold, in sunshine and rain, Bewailing its loss and boasting its gain, Blessing its pleasure and cursing its pain, The hurrying world goes up and down: Every avenue and street Of city and town Are veins that throb with the restless beat Of the eager multitude's trampling feet.

And then all the people on the sidewalks vanished and the buildings melted away into sunswept levels, and the Avenue was a trail down which Mary came on her pony in the resplendent sufficiency of his dreams.

The wide avenue, in which Oloff Van Staats dwelt, was but a few hundred yards in length.

An avenue of palms is the epic of the desert; a bougainvillea vine its sonnet.

In heat and in cold, in sunshine and rain, Bewailing its loss and boasting its gain, Blessing its pleasure and cursing its pain, The hurrying world goes up and down: Every avenue and street Of city and town Are veins that throb with the restless beat Of the eager multitude's trampling feet.

The only avenues of escape were the windows, in retreating through which, the greater number of those few who succeeded in escaping suffered the most serious injuries.

In most American cities, the avenues are diagonal streets or openings connecting distant points of the cities, but this definition loses most of its force when applied to European cities, as they are not built square or rectangular.

The avenues in that park are perhaps the finest in Europe.

But, independently of the quantity of physical suffering, and the innumerable avenues to vice, in more than a quarter of the globe, which this great measure will cut off, there are yet blessings, which we have reason to consider as likely to flow from it.

The next avenue, in point of importance, is Camphill, on the road to Stratford, where several streets and roads are united.

Lower Sixth Avenue is the abode of these shadows.

And I knew also that the sole avenue to peace and serenity, not to happiness, was the path of renunciation and of obedience to the conventions of society, and that this was precisely the path which we should never take.

"By mistake we drove into the plantation grounds of Mr. Gibbons, a man of wealth, who is seldom on his lands, and where the avenues are therefore a little wild, and the roads a little rough.

That Avenue was a symbol, too.

It is 272 acres in extent, has a large number of ponds and lakes, and many fine avenues of palms, mahogany, mangos, tamarinds, plantains and other trees, and its greatest glory is a banyan tree which is claimed to be the largest in the world.

18 Metaphors for  avenues