121 Metaphors for street

Market street is then the most dazzling of boulevards, every aspect of it in motioncrowds, taxis, cars and the colors of advertising displays.

Wall Street is their adored mistress, and the wives are just their family.

I expected that a city whose streets are canals and whose carriages are all boats, would present a very unique appearance, but when I once saw them, they were so exactly what I had anticipated, that I felt disgusted and left the city without doing justice even to the vast collection of paintings in the Ducal Palace, which alone is worth going a great distance to see.

Don't attempt anything to-night; you can't get a sufficient number of the boys together; but, when you do go, you are to take, first, Christian-street, between Eleventh and Twelfth,there are several nigger families living in that block.

Bideford streets are a very flower-garden of all the colours, swarming with seamen and burghers and burghers' wives and daughters, all in their holiday attire.

These streets are in reality narrow crooked lanes paved with pebbles, slanting towards the gutter in the centre.

Canal Street is the fashionable promenade of New Orleans.

Thousands have never seen the homely clock that ticks over the chimney, nor the capacious, hospitable-looking fire-place under, both as they stood half a century ago, when Fleet-street was the emporium of literary talent, and every coffee-house was distinguished by some character of note who was regarded as the oracle of the company.

It was between five and six o'clock, just the time when our streets are the most crowded, when, sitting at my window, from which I kept a watch upon the Grande Rue, not knowing what might happenI saw that some fresh incident had taken place.

That's how we ran local politics, invented the Caucus: Corporation Street is the result.

The situation of Dartford is thus very picturesque, and as we might suppose its main street is the old Roman highway that the pilgrims used.

The two principal streets are the Rua Direita, the widest in the city, and the principal scene of commercial transactions, and the narrow Rua do Ouvidor, filled with shops, many of which equal in the richness and variety of their goods the most splendid establishments of European capitals.

And that is all I think worth seeing as sights, except that the streets and shops of Paris are themselves the best sight.

The street mentioned here is one known up to the year 1864 as la Calle del Cristo de la Calavera or la Calle de la Calavera, but which bears to-day the name of la Cuesta del Pez.

The very street by which he leaves the city, as it were, by the now destroyed North Gate, is Roman, one of the four roads which met in the Forum of Venta Belgarum and divided Roman Winchester into four quarters, though, perhaps because of the marshes of the Itchen, not into four equal parts as in Chichester.

The narrow streets were black tunnels into which Parisians plunged with an exquisite frisson of romantic fear.

Market Street is the central street from which the others are reckoned in both directions according to the couplet "Market, Arch, Race, and Vine, Chestnut, Walnut, Spruce, and Pine," etc.

The first street you see is a desolation, empty and sinister.

The principal streets were: Pine (now Main), Market and Forsyth.

All the streets and pavements are pure gold, I warrant you,at least, I know an alchemy that turns her mud into that metal: a mind that loves to be at home in crowds.

STREET, GEORGE EDMUND, architect, born in Essex; was the architect of the New Law Courts in London; had been trained under Gilbert Scott (1824-1881).

The street, as I looked out, was now quite deserted save for one or two prowling policemen, who, apparently bored with their hiding-places, had come forth to patrol in the open.

The streets are mere alleys seven or eight feet broad, knee-deep in dust or mud, and as irregular and puzzling to a stranger as the maze at Hampton Court.

The streets are the fairest that euer I saw, as straight as a line from one gate to the other, and so broad that tenne or twelue men may ride a front thorow them.

The streets of the city of Valetta are extremely narrow, and the houses high; a great advantage in such a climate, as it ensures shade, while, as they generally run at right angles, they obtain all the breeze that is to be had.

121 Metaphors for  street