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.

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

He was due for an attack coming down the main street and from alleys to the right and left.

The gate overarched with honeysuckle, the long alley with its fragrant flowering border, the grape arbor, the steep green hill behind, lay before me in the still, rich beauty of June.

There were two gates to the house: one wide, with decorated posts, that faced the crescent street, where Galen's oldest slave sat on a stool and blinked at passers-by; the other narrow, leading from a little high-walled courtyard at the rear into an alley between stables in which milch-asses were kept.

Finally they reached the post office, and Ripley drove around to a sort of hitching alley at its side.

" The regiment, which had probably come from the Popincourt barracks close at hand, had occupied the street opposite the blind alley for more than half an hour, and then had returned to the barracks.

The courts and alleys behind even some of the main streets swarm with people who have hardly a whole nail left to scratch themselves with.

One evening late I was just coming out of a dark alley on the Barbary Coast, San Francisco.

There was an alley by the Molendinar Burn, close to the archery butts, where he would let me practise at a mark with guns from his store.

Andy saw him enter a store, but only to leave it by a side door and cross an alley into a saloon.

He had lodged with his wife in courts and alleys about the Strand; but now, for the purpose of carrying on his arduous undertaking, and to be nearer his printer and friend, Mr. Strahan, he ventured to take a house in Gough square, Fleet street.

Down inside the Jaffa Gate, in a dark alley beside the Grand Hotel, there are usually two or three cabs standing at any hour of the night ready to care for belated Christian gentlemen who have looked on the wine when it was any colour that it chanced to be.

The houses on each side of them are of immense height, being of six or seven stories, which form such a shade as effectually to protect those who walk thro' these alleys from the rays of the sun.

Presently he found himself in the back alleys near Cissie's house.

The Germans occupy an alley within an alley, as it were.

"Now, though a lad of mettle, you know, sir, it would not have been quite the thing to have called out my intended father-in-law; so, with amazing forbearance, bridling my passion, I allowed him to march off triumphantly, and stood, with the letter in my hand, looking down the alley after him, strutting along, staff in hand, like a recruiting sergeant, as if he had been a phoenix.

Here, with her hair knotted up and secured by a tiny dagger, her gauzy drapery gathered in her arm, Delphine floated down the green alley toward us, as if in a rosy cloud.

A short and pleasant walk of scarcely ten minutes through St. James's Palace and the Mall (a broad alley alongside of St. James's Park) led him to Buckingham Palace, and near at hand was the house of Mrs. Schroeter.

More than that, I've heard strange noises at night, and seen strange faces in the alley over yer.

There was a rush up the alley past her hiding-place, a shout, and the savage thud of blows.

The frock I made up into a small packet, and, having carried it to a distance as great as I thought necessary, I dropped it in the corner of an alley through which I passed.

While they stood waiting, Leverage glanced keenly up and down the street, and his eye lighted on the muscular figure of Cartwright, the plainclothes man, shivering in the partial shelter of an alley across the way.

[Illustration: NO ROOM FOR DOLLY] "Dear Lord," he said, "there's only room for seventy-five of thy little lambs that are pining and wasting away in every dark street and alley like mine.

John Mortimer saw some one holding aside a dark dress, and moving down the rose-covered alley towards him.