9 Metaphors for pavements

Fight, whilst life serves you, we will nere give ore; The grasse greene pavement shall be drownd in blood,

The pavements were dust and rubble.

Sir James Harrington, writing in the reign of James I, tells a curious story of their loss: The pavement of Coventry church is almost all tombstones, and some very ancient, but there came in a zealous fellow with a counterfeit commission, that for avoiding superstition, hath not left one pennyworth nor penny breadth of brass upon all the tombs, of all the inscriptions, which had been many and costly.

Their pavement's a banana peel.

The pavement beneath their feet was the saft dirt o' a country road, or the bonny grass.

The pavement beneath their feet was the saft dirt o' a country road, or the bonny grass.

The pavement of the inclined plane in the Hotel de Ville, by which we gain the arduous ascent that conducts to the Passport office, is a curiosity of its kind, and perhaps unique.

The inside of the dome and the vaulted ceilings of the chapels, are of blue, with golden stars; the pavement in the centre is so precious a work that it is kept covered with boards and only shown once a year.

Perhaps these pavements, with their rich mellow tints of red sandstone, and their shades of white, yellow, brown, and grey, afforded by different varieties of limestone, are examples of the most perfect kind of work which the labours of mankind, combined with the softening influences of time, are able to produce.

9 Metaphors for  pavements