He had meant to go out, but had no particular object and the streets were hot; besides, after the quiet country, he liked the bustle in the hall.

All around this were high and magnificent buildings; and between these opened long, narrow streets.

The streets were straight and narrow, but not empty and gloomy, as they were in the cities with which he was familiar.

No city wall, no gate, no sentinels, no streets, no houses could now be seenonly the sea.

The boy saw also the narrow streets, which were almost deserted on holiday afternoons.

He saw neither the cheery cottages on the side streets, with their black walls, and white bows and red pelargoniums behind the shining window-panes, nor the many pretty gardens and avenues, nor the beauty in the weed-clad ruins.

It was not to be expected that city folks should stop out in the streets, and call to the wild geese.

They are large and frightful, many of them six inches in breadth; and after a night of rain, the streets are almost covered, so that it is impossible to walk any distance without crushing dozens of them.

Like other Spanish cities of America it is laid out in quadras or squares of houses, and through the centre of nearly all the streets runs a stream of water three feet wide, which carries away a good portion of the refuse of the city.

The streets have carriage ways and footpaths, and are lighted at night.

What perversity is there in the human understanding, to quit the delightful and peaceful abodes of nature, for noisy towns and dusty streets.

And the clock?" "My good woman, enough shoes and slippers are forgotten in the bottoms of cupboards year after year in flood-time, and are found floating around the streets, to make all the old-clothesmen in town happy.

" I entered and ascended the stairs, glad enough of the prospect of a warm and well-lighted room after my comfortless groping in the murky streets, and Polton, with a final glance up and down the walk reluctantly followed.

People said, "When Daniel Webster walked the streets of Boston, he made the buildings look small.

When he walked the streets of London, people would stop and wonder who the noble stranger was; and workingmen whispered to one another: "There goes a king!"

It was a chester ready made, with its four streets, its four gates, all but that toward the sea flanked with octagonal towers, and with four greater square towers at the corners.

Within the walls, besides the splendid buildings which still remain, besides the broken-down walls and chambers which formed the immediate dwelling-place of the founder, the main streets were lined with massive arcades, large parts of which still remain.

But, tho' the streets of Cattaro are narrow, yet they are civilized and airy-looking compared with those of Traü, and the little paved squares, as so often along this coast, suggest the memory of the ruling city.

At the same time, I can only record faithfully my impression, and that was that everything new, everything modern, was hopelessly out of tone in Cracow; progress, which, tho' desirable, may be a vulgar thing, would not suit her, and does not seem at home in her streets.

We have been rambling all morning through its winding streets, stopping sometimes at a church to see the dusty tombs and shrines or to hear the fine music which accompanies the morning mass.

Consequently mountaineering is little in evidence, conversation about ascents is seldom heard, and ice-axes, ropes, and nailed boots are seen more often in shop windows than in the streets.

Two Christians were murdered in the streets of Canea, and the remainder in the villages round about fled precipitately to the mountains.

When I look long and intently at the ice, I get almost to believe that these are streets, and palaces, and cathedrals.

He walked the streets in the early morning looking for breakfast but with so little money left that he did not wish to spend it.

Broad and other streets in the Wall Street district were crammed with crazy crowds.