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  • He walked fast, hunted by his fears, chattering to himself, skulking through the less-frequented thoroughfares, counting the minutes that still divided him from midnight.   (source)
    thoroughfares = roads
  • Next rose before her in memory's picture-gallery, the intricate and narrow thoroughfares, the tall, grey houses, the huge cathedrals, and the public edifices, ancient in date and quaint in architecture, of a continental city; where new life had awaited her, still in connexion with the misshapen scholar: a new life, but feeding itself on time-worn materials, like a tuft of green moss on a crumbling wall.   (source)
    thoroughfares = roads or paths
  • More than simply a restaurant, the Piazza was designed to be an extension of the city—of its gardens, markets, and thoroughfares.†   (source)
  • Their tent seemed to be pitched right alongside a kind of thoroughfare to the field, and Ministry members kept hurrying up and down it, greeting Mr. Weasley cordially as they passed.†   (source)
  • Farther south, the town descended into a vast, low-lying marshland of working-class houses, mobile homes, shanties, Fort Gordon army base, and a backwoods thoroughfare made famous by Erskine Caldwell as a symbol of rural squalor—Tobacco Road.†   (source)
  • They cross a seething thoroughfare, then go up an alley that smells like a muddy ditch.†   (source)
  • Beneath that, in smaller letters, it said NO THOROUGHFARE.†   (source)
  • As usual there was chaos in the main thoroughfare.†   (source)
  • One of the keys to this was erecting a wall in Sadr City—basically, a huge cement fence called a "T-wall" that would run down a major thoroughfare about a quarter of the way into the slum.†   (source)
  • The main thoroughfare, it ran the entire length of the ship, from the control car, the officer quarters, and the luxurious passenger decks near the bow all the way back to the cargo bays and crew quarters in the stern.†   (source)
  • If you show us a thoroughfare, you better put your hero on it.†   (source)
  • They assumed there would be activity there, that if anywhere would have a police or military presence, it would be Claiborne, the main thoroughfare nearby.†   (source)
  • There was a great deal of traffic in the main thoroughfares of the city — trams, cars and pedestrians; the shops were open, and since the mayor had appealed to the population not to hoard food, assuring us that there was no need to do so, there were not even any queues outside them.†   (source)
  • Marcus pulls onto one of the main thoroughfares and pushes his foot into the gas pedal.†   (source)
  • I saw a picture in my mind of the little alleyway that was the main thoroughfare of Pontocho, as I'd seen it one evening crowded with well-wishers after Kichisaburo's last performance, the day he'd retired from the Kabuki theater.†   (source)
  • On maps of Haiti, the road we traveled, National Highway 3, looks like a major thoroughfare, and indeed it is the gwo wout la, the only big road across the central plateau, a narrow dirt track, now strewn with boulders, now eroded down to rough bedrock, now, on stretches that must have been muddy back in the rainy season, baked into ruts that seemed designed to torture wheels, hooves, and feet.†   (source)
  • In obedience to them, in the silent heat she walked down Maycomb's main thoroughfare, a highway leading to Montgomery.†   (source)
  • From the direction of the main thoroughfare an excavator squealed shrilly.†   (source)
  • The four-story-high thoroughfare was so large, Eragon had little difficulty evading the dwarves who populated it, although at one point, a line of Knurlcarathn stepped in front of him, and he had no choice but to leap over the dwarves, who ducked, uttering startled exclamations.†   (source)
  • First we walked to Pasdaran Street, a main thoroughfare, and took a taxi to a bus stop near Mammal's house.†   (source)
  • One evening, a quarrel broke out between two prefects on the main thoroughfare of the college.†   (source)
  • No fear, no brakes, consumed by some irrational itch to cruise along shadowy thoroughfares, traveled by demons.†   (source)
  • I race past all of them, down Serra's main thoroughfare, through the dwindling crowds of Execution Square, and up the cobbled streets of the Illustrian Quarter.†   (source)
  • And though the town was cut through by two busy thoroughfares, Ponce de Leon Avenue and Indian Creek Drive, as well as a set of active railroad tracks, it had enough navigable sidewalks to qualify as pedestrian-friendly—important for a large group of people who couldn't afford automobiles.†   (source)
  • Finally, a sharp right down the service road into the main thoroughfare, where by heart she boarded the bus.†   (source)
  • Instead he pulled off of prison property and onto the main thoroughfare that skirted the institution.†   (source)
  • Deep inside the hornet's nest, the assault force moved in staggered formation down the sides of the village's main thoroughfare: a narrow, rutted dirt road.†   (source)
  • Thirty kilometers west of Rawalpindi, at Taxila, they turned north off Pakistan's principal thoroughfare toward the mountains.†   (source)
  • They were in a convoy of four Humvees, patrolling one of the city's major thoroughfares.†   (source)
  • Tires squealing, Tummeler pulled onto the northern thoroughfare and sped away from the towers.†   (source)
  • But the old woman passed by without even seeing him, mumbling in terrible, tragic vexation, and soon the first woman had vanished into the deepening layers of darkness and the old woman was left standing helplessly in the center of the thoroughfare, dazed, uncertain which way to proceed, alone.†   (source)
  • The narrow street outside which rarely saw a car was now a noisy thoroughfare, and the compound wall showed no trace of whitewash but instead was the color of the earth on which it stood.†   (source)
  • Jace broke off as they came out from the narrow street into a larger thoroughfare.†   (source)
  • They would be all over Bee Cave Road and Southwest Parkway, the two primary roads that fed the vicinity, and Southwest Parkway was a wide-open thoroughfare with little traffic—not the best road to blend in on.†   (source)
  • Broadway, straight and wide, was the grand thoroughfare lined with shade trees and fine houses and churches.†   (source)
  • Nine of every ten were moving westward, down the broad brick thoroughfare to Daznak's Pit.†   (source)
  • It is almost 10:00 A.M. as Thich Quang Duc sits down on a crowded Saigon thoroughfare.†   (source)
  • Oh, it's cost him plenty-but he's bought the judge, the clerks, the bailiffs, their backers, their backers1 backers, a few legislators, half a dozen administrators-he's bought the whole legal process, like a private thoroughfare, and there's no single crossroad left for me to squeeze through to stop it!†   (source)
  • I take a walk of some length daily, part of my retirement routine, and so it's no trouble to make my way down Church Street, which is the main thoroughfare of the town.†   (source)
  • The rue Sarrasin was so ancient that in another city it might have been designated as a landmark thoroughfare, a wide brick alley connecting streets built centuries later.†   (source)
  • I paused there on the sidewalk of the tree-lined and civilized thoroughfare, drinking in this truly inspired elegance.†   (source)
  • For great distances about this dome, strung lights like street lamps line avenues among rocks, bridges over canyons, thoroughfares through mountains.†   (source)
  • Joe Louis had given them the courage to assert their right to use a public thoroughfare, and there wasn't a white person down there to dispute it.†   (source)
  • "What's a magician doing defacing a public thoroughfare?"†   (source)
  • I am on the same ancient thoroughfare That I was on that summer, on that day and hour.†   (source)
  • They walked in silence into the main thoroughfare.†   (source)
  • But free assembly does not carry with it the right to block public thoroughfares to traffic.†   (source)
  • Sprightly, she walked back to the wide thoroughfare near the park.   (source)
    thoroughfare = main road
  • It ran perpendicular to the end of the main thoroughfare bisecting the bazaar.   (source)
  • Here at the westernmost tip of the Denon Wing, the north-south thoroughfare of Place du Carrousel ran almost flush with the building with only a narrow sidewalk separating it from the Louvre's outer wall.   (source)
  • Where it had once connected with the Continuum's main thoroughfare, it now simply stopped, connected to nothing.   (source)
    thoroughfare = road
  • Spectators had gathered on both sides of the thoroughfare outside the Military Club near Wazir Akbar Khan.   (source)
    thoroughfare = main road
  • He had emerged from the exit portal in Paris, France, 1859, and found himself standing in the middle of a wide thoroughfare known as the Champs-Elysees.   (source)
  • Sophie's SmartCar tore through the diplomatic quarter, weaving past embassies and consulates, finally racing out a side street and taking a right turn back onto the massive thoroughfare of Champs-Elysées.   (source)
  • In Genevieve's time and before, it had been a grand thoroughfare of upscale shops and restaurants, but the wealthy and privileged gradually moved elsewhere as the surrounding streets became havens for looter gangs, imagination-stimulant manufacturers, and Wonderlanders engaged in other illicit but profitable employment.   (source)
  • "Most of them won't make it," Dodge said, urging their spirit-dane toward Wondertropolis, where they would skirt major thoroughfares on their way to The Everlasting Forest.   (source)
    thoroughfares = roads
  • In silence, too, they traversed the by-street; and it was not until they had come into a neighbouring thoroughfare, where even upon a Sunday there were still some stirrings of life, that Mr. Utterson at last turned and looked at his companion.   (source)
    thoroughfare = main road
  • The inhabitants were all doing well, it seemed, and all emulously hoping to do better still, and laying out the surplus of their gains in coquetry; so that the shop fronts stood along that thoroughfare with an air of invitation, like rows of smiling saleswomen.   (source)
  • Although they had but that moment left the school behind them, they were now in the busy thoroughfares of a city, where shadowy passengers passed and repassed; where shadowy carts and coaches battled for the way, and all the strife and tumult of a real city were.   (source)
    thoroughfares = main roads
  • It was exposed, in the open, in the centre of a wide thoroughfare that was in itself a dead end.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, there was the screeching of tyres far off on a thoroughfare to Jason's left.†   (source)
  • We're going to leave roadblocks in place on the seven primary thoroughfares leaving the city."†   (source)
  • Passing, they turned off the avenue of the sun and headed up a narrower thoroughfare.†   (source)
  • He expected that there might be people on Carrollton—like Napoleon and St. Charles, it seemed a logical thoroughfare for rescue or military boats—but when he got close, he saw no official personnel at all.†   (source)
  • With eighty tables scattered around a marble fountain and a menu offering everything from cabbage piroghi to cutlets of veal, the Piazza was meant to be an extension of the city—of its gardens, markets, and thoroughfares.†   (source)
  • 'The thoroughfare,' she mumbled lamely.†   (source)
  • Every part of the city shows up on the screen, the bridge near the Merciless Mart and the Pire and the main thoroughfare of the Abnegation sector, the Hub and the Ferris wheel and the Amity fields, now worked by all the factions.†   (source)
  • The tracks in Caliente are a major thoroughfare for freight trains, moving goods north to south and, of course, back again.†   (source)
  • At the week's end, as the Boston at lastentered the busy thoroughfare of Bordeaux, an Irish passenger from the Martha broke out a fiddle and played all afternoon as the sailors danced.†   (source)
  • The soldiers soon broke and ran in the face of the Varden's overwhelming strength, fleeing down the myriad side streets and alleys that branched off the thoroughfare.†   (source)
  • We are tongue on tongue when the beep of a passing peeping Tom reminds me I'm standing beside a quite public thoroughfare.†   (source)
  • Like Booth, who now prowls Washington in the desperate hope of finding Lincoln, O'Laughlen prowls the bustling thoroughfares, unsure of what to do next.†   (source)
  • I raced outside and down the street to the main thoroughfare to hail a taxi of my own It was early in November.†   (source)
  • With the six warriors he had selected, Roran circled the main thoroughfare that led to the gate until they reached the rubbish-strewn base of the outward-slanting wall, perhaps fifty feet from the portcullis and the open sally port.†   (source)
  • When you drive through town you notice how the trees hang a bit too closely over the streets, how the bushes and grasses are keenly in need of pruning and edging and clipping, how the main thoroughfare is rife with chain businesses and towering signs that glow and rotate and blink.†   (source)
  • Better to focus his officers on the busiest thoroughfares along the route, rather than waste them in a place where few people will be standing.†   (source)
  • The post road, or King's Highway, from Brunswick to Trenton, the main thoroughfare between New York and Philadelphia, was as straight and flat and fine a thirty-mile stretch of road as any in the country, and the retreating army made good time.†   (source)
  • The Braintree of Adams's boyhood was a quiet village of scattered houses and small neighboring farmsteads strung along the old coast road, the winding main thoroughfare from Boston to Plymouth, just back from the very irregular south shore of Massachusetts Bay.†   (source)
  • When gunfire was heard from a graveled road off the main thoroughfare, Thibault's squad was ordered to check it out.†   (source)
  • As it was a slow time at the gates, there were no more than a dozen people crossing the thoroughfare and disappearing into the darkness.†   (source)
  • There is still discussion over whether there is to be a motorcade through downtown Dallas, which will be a security nightmare, thanks to the more than twenty thousand windows lining the city's major thoroughfares.†   (source)
  • The three of us walked to Shariati Street to catch the first of four orange taxis that wound us through the city to the east, to our destination on a main thoroughfare that many people still referred to as Palavi Avenue, named after the shah.†   (source)
  • The cross streets which intersect these are all equally wide, straight and parallel to each other, and are named for forest and fruit trees, Pear Street, Apple Street, Walnut Street, Chestnut Street, etc. The main thoroughfare was High Street, commonly called Market Street, as it was the location of the immense public market.†   (source)
  • The Zhongguo ren remained outside, his hand unobtrusively under his loose tunic, his own eyes darting about the crazy street, a thoroughfare he could not understand.†   (source)
  • Catherine had casually pointed it out when they arrived, explaining that there was an ordinance forbidding refuse in the street, which was the main thoroughfare of Tuen Mun.†   (source)
  • Running through the connecting thoroughfare behind the row of apartment buildings, her feet now bleeding inside the training shoes, Marie threw the kimono-like garment over her head and stopped by a row of garbage cans where she removed her green slacks and threw them inside the nearest one.†   (source)
  • He ran in spurts to his right, from pine to pine to the mid-point of the curve, where again he knelt in the shadowed greenery, waiting, studying every foot of the thoroughfare's borders, listening for any sound that did not belong to the hum of the deserted country road.†   (source)
  • Once on the bird sanctuary's series of dirt thoroughfares, Bourne kept jamming his automatic into the assassin's spine, forcing the killer to run faster, faster!†   (source)
  • Figures raced through the narrow thoroughfares, crashing into cages of small screeching birds and writhing snakes of various sizes — wares of peddlers on the lowest rungs of the territory's ladder of commerce.†   (source)
  • Its growth was not slow and haphazard, a building added here, a thoroughfare rerouted there, one structure torn down to make way for another, and all parts coming together into an irregular and unseemly whole.†   (source)
  • From the outer suburbs to the center of the town, in all the byways where the doctor's duties took him, in every thoroughfare, rats were piled up in garbage cans or lying in long lines in the gutters.†   (source)
  • Soon after nine o'clock of a Saturday morning, kids began spraying out of all the side streets on to Manhattan Avenue, the main thoroughfare.†   (source)
  • These broad thoroughfares—Piccadilly South, Piccadilly North, Regent Street and the Haymarket—are sanded paths of victory driven through the jungle.†   (source)
  • This, then, serves to explain my confidence, my central stability, otherwise so monstrously absurd as I breast the stream of this crowded thoroughfare, making always a passage for myself between people's bodies, taking advantage of safe moments to cross.†   (source)
  • On turning out of the main thoroughfares where the rejoicings were in full swing, and entering the street where Grand and Cottard lived, Dr. Rieux was held up by a police cordon.†   (source)
  • She looked despairingly up and down the dreary thoroughfare.†   (source)
  • We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had found ourselves in the morning.†   (source)
  • Madame Ratignolle had dragged herself over, avoiding the too public thoroughfares, she said.†   (source)
  • It was a wide thoroughfare lined by hitching-rails and saddled horses and vehicles of various kinds.†   (source)
  • Buggies and wagons almost filled the narrow thoroughfare.†   (source)
  • Farther down the main thoroughfare were several weather-boarded whitewashed stores.†   (source)
  • Upon his return down that main thoroughfare of the village not a person was to be seen.†   (source)
  • Archer had seated himself near the window and was gazing out blankly at the deserted thoroughfare.†   (source)
  • He turned the corner into the main thoroughfare.†   (source)
  • She did not know that thoroughfare very well.†   (source)
  • In the former thoroughfare businessmen and travelers were making for comfortable hotels.†   (source)
  • The thoroughfare, in this part, was like a walled canon of brown stone and clean.†   (source)
  • Its clear atmosphere, more populous thoroughfares, and peculiar indifference struck her forcibly.†   (source)
  • A small, dim, crooked shop, kept in a tortuous, up-hill thoroughfare, by a small, dim, crooked man.†   (source)
  • They lay right across the way, blocking the thoroughfare.†   (source)
  • There is always, to this day, a sudden pause in that place to the roar of the great thoroughfare.†   (source)
  • At last the fugitive, hard-pressed, takes to a narrow passage and a court which has no thoroughfare.†   (source)
  • They came to a thoroughfare as an owl trolley glowed and rattled round the corner; they ran beside it, swung up on the steps, and were safe.†   (source)
  • Sometimes he hoped that she would die, painlessly, in some accident, she who was out of doors in the streets, crossing busy thoroughfares, from morning to night.†   (source)
  • At Sixteenth and Washington, seeing what he considered a fairly clear block to the left, he turned the car and tore along that thoroughfare to as far as Wyandotte once more.†   (source)
  • Their house was in Wickham Place, and fairly quiet, for a lofty promontory of buildings separated it from the main thoroughfare.†   (source)
  • They paused, and looked up and down it for a moment, and remarked upon the desolation which had come over this once lively thoroughfare, while the wind dipped to earth and scooped straws and hay-stems from the ground.†   (source)
  • It cast its eyes upon the roads, which were growing from long troughs of liquid mud to proper thoroughfares.†   (source)
  • My brother could not hear it for the traffic in the main thoroughfares, but by striking through the quiet back streets to the river he was able to distinguish it quite plainly.†   (source)
  • They had crossed the Place des Invalides, and were walking down one of the thoroughfares flanking the building.†   (source)
  • There seems to be something in the chill breezes which scurry through the long, narrow thoroughfares productive of rueful thoughts.†   (source)
  • Jim looked every day over the thickets of gardens, beyond the roofs of the town, over the fronds of palms growing on the shore, at that roadstead which is a thoroughfare to the East,—at the roadstead dotted by garlanded islets, lighted by festal sunshine, its ships like toys, its brilliant activity resembling a holiday pageant, with the eternal serenity of the Eastern sky overhead and the smiling peace of the Eastern seas possessing the space as far as the horizon.†   (source)
  • This structure, which had stood for six hundred years, and had been a noisy and populous thoroughfare all that time, was a curious affair, for a closely packed rank of stores and shops, with family quarters overhead, stretched along both sides of it, from one bank of the river to the other.†   (source)
  • When they turned into the broad, blossom-bordered road that was the only thoroughfare of Pine the sun was setting red and gold behind the mountains.†   (source)
  • Half an hour later Paul alighted from his car and went slowly down one of the side streets off the main thoroughfare.†   (source)
  • She thought that the months she had spent in the city, the going to theaters and the seeing of great crowds wandering in lighted thoroughfares, had changed her profoundly.†   (source)
  • 'Throughout the whole of Cheapside, from every penthouse and window, hung banners and streamers; and the richest carpets, stuffs, and cloth-of-gold tapestried the streets—specimens of the great wealth of the stores within; and the splendour of this thoroughfare was equalled in the other streets, and in some even surpassed.'†   (source)
  • THE room which Clyde secured this same day with the aid of Mrs. Braley, was in Thorpe Street, a thoroughfare enormously removed in quality if not in distance from that in which his uncle resided.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Fisher lived in an East side street near the Park, and as the two men walked down Fifth Avenue the new architectural developments of that versatile thoroughfare invited Van Alstyne's comment.†   (source)
  • On the left ran a lane which led to the stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a public, though little used, thoroughfare.†   (source)
  • Beyond them the thoroughfare roared gently—a tide that could never be quiet, while in the east, invisible behind the smokes of Wapping, the moon was rising.†   (source)
  • He took another cross street, and without breasting the throng on the Promenade, made his way to the fashionable club which overlooks that thoroughfare.†   (source)
  • Electric lights sizzled and jagged in the main thoroughfares, gas-lamps in the side streets glimmered a canary gold or green.†   (source)
  • By this time various homeward bound individuals of diverse occupations and interests noticing this small group so advantageously disposed near the principal thoroughfare of the city, hesitated a moment,—either to eye them askance or to ascertain the character of their work.†   (source)
  • As the young man strolled up Fifth Avenue from Waverley Place, the long thoroughfare was deserted but for a group of carriages standing before the Reggie Chiverses' (where there was a dinner for the Duke), and the occasional figure of an elderly gentleman in heavy overcoat and muffler ascending a brownstone doorstep and disappearing into a gas-lit hall.†   (source)
  • But who can explain Westminster Bridge Road or Liverpool Street in the morning—the city inhaling—or the same thoroughfares in the evening—the city exhaling her exhausted air?†   (source)
  • And so now he swung the car to the left into that thoroughfare, his thought here being that amid these comparatively quiet streets it was possible to wind in and out and so shake off pursuit—at least long enough to drop his passengers somewhere and return the car to the garage.†   (source)
  • Long garden-walls overhung by trees made a dark boundary to the pavement; an empty cab trailed along the deserted thoroughfare, and presently Selden saw two persons emerge from the opposite shadows, signal to the cab, and drive off in it toward the centre of the town.†   (source)
  • At Market, the great thoroughfare which they had reached—and because of threading throngs of automobiles and various lines of cars passing in opposite directions, they awaited the signal of the traffic officer.†   (source)
  • It mitigated the ugliness of the long crowded thoroughfare, blurred the gaunt roof-lines, threw a mauve veil over the discouraging perspective of the side streets, and gave a touch of poetry to the delicate haze of green that marked the entrance to the Park.†   (source)
  • Chapter 9 In Mrs. Peniston's youth, fashion had returned to town in October; therefore on the tenth day of the month the blinds of her Fifth Avenue residence were drawn up, and the eyes of the Dying Gladiator in bronze who occupied the drawing-room window resumed their survey of that deserted thoroughfare.†   (source)
  • In her indifferent wandering she turned into Jackson Street, nor far from the river, and was keeping her way along the south side of that imposing thoroughfare, when a piece of wrapping paper, written on with marking ink and tacked up on the door, attracted her attention.†   (source)
  • And walking still farther south, he came upon that same wide and tree-lined avenue—which he had seen before—the exterior appearance of which alone identified it as the principal residence thoroughfare of Lycurgus.†   (source)
  • Unless one were looking up this matter in particular, he could have stood at Sixth Avenue and Fifteenth Street for days around the noon hour and never have noticed that out of the vast crowd that surged along that busy thoroughfare there turned out, every few seconds, some weather-beaten, heavy-footed specimen of humanity, gaunt in countenance and dilapidated in the matter of clothes.†   (source)
  • So many imposing wrought-iron fences, flower-bordered walks, grouped trees and bushes, expensive and handsome automobiles either beneath porte-cochères within or speeding along the broad thoroughfare without.†   (source)
  • Crossing at right angles the great thoroughfare on which they walked, was a second canyon-like way, threaded by throngs and vehicles and various lines of cars which clanged their bells and made such progress as they might amid swiftly moving streams of traffic.†   (source)
  • Sparser by now having won a fair lead and realizing that a straight course was the least baffling to pursue, turned swiftly into McGee, a comparatively quiet thoroughfare along which he tore for a few blocks to the wide and winding Gillham Parkway, whose course was southward.†   (source)
  • Having reached an intersection this side of the second principal thoroughfare—really just an alley between two tall structures—now quite bare of life of any kind, the man put down the organ, which the woman immediately opened, setting up a music rack upon which she placed a wide flat hymn book.†   (source)
  • But because another cross street was visible a hundred feet or so further on, and he imagined that by turning into that he might find a paved thoroughfare again, he sped on and then swung sharply to the left, only to crash roughly into a pile of paving stones left by a contractor who was preparing to pave the way.†   (source)
  • It consisted in its entirety of one long store floor in an old and decidedly colorless and inartistic wooden building which was situated in that part of Kansas City which lies north of Independence Boulevard and west of Troost Avenue, the exact street or place being called Bickel, a very short thoroughfare opening off Missouri Avenue, a somewhat more lengthy but no less nondescript highway.†   (source)
  • And in some neighboring shops—those nearest Central Avenue and the business heart where this wide and handsome thoroughfare began, were to be seen such expensive-looking and apparently smart displays of the things that might well interest people of means and comfort—motors, jewels, lingerie, leather goods and furniture.†   (source)
  • He found himself ambling on and on until suddenly he was out of the business district again and in touch with a wide and tree-shaded thoroughfare of residences, the houses of which, each and every one, appeared to possess more room space, lawn space, general ease and repose and dignity even than any with which he had ever been in contact.†   (source)
  • And after dinner he made his way out into the principal thoroughfares of Lycurgus, only to observe such a crowd of nondescript mill-workers as, judging these streets by day, he would not have fancied swarmed here by night—girls and boys, men and women of various nationalities, and types—Americans, Poles, Hungarians, French, English—and for the most part—if not entirely touched with a peculiar something—ignorance or thickness of mind or body, or with a certain lack of taste and…†   (source)
  • It gave us the sole command of the great thoroughfare of the interior, and placed the countless tribes of savages, who lay along our borders, entirely within our control; it reconciled conflicting rights, and quieted national distrusts; it opened a thousand avenues to the inland trade, and to the waters of the Pacific; and, if ever time or necessity shall require a peaceful division of this vast empire, it assures us of a neighbour that will possess our language, our religion, our…†   (source)
  • These two great thoroughfares intersected by the two first, formed the canvas upon which reposed, knotted and crowded together on every hand, the labyrinthine network of the streets of Paris.†   (source)
  • Mr. Snagsby says nothing to this effect, says nothing at all indeed, but coughs his forlornest cough, expressive of no thoroughfare in any direction.†   (source)
  • But she also liked to think that it was well in every sense for Mr. Bulstrode to have won the hand of Harriet Vincy; whose family was undeniable in a Middlemarch light—a better light surely than any thrown in London thoroughfares or dissenting chapel-yards.†   (source)
  • Here wheat-ricks overhung the old Roman street, and thrust their eaves against the church tower; green-thatched barns, with doorways as high as the gates of Solomon's temple, opened directly upon the main thoroughfare.†   (source)
  • The times and times that he and I have cut such pranks, right in the teeth of Mingos raging for our blood, in the great thoroughfare round and about Ty!†   (source)
  • In the background rose this barrier, which made a blind thoroughfare of the street, a motionless and tranquil wall; no one was visible, nothing was audible; not a cry, not a sound, not a breath.†   (source)
  • A watchman was crying half-past nine, down a dark passage through which she had to pass, in gaining the main thoroughfare.†   (source)
  • By means of the two windows looking into the street, Albert could see all that passed; the sight of what is going on is necessary to young men, who always want to see the world traverse their horizon, even if that horizon is only a public thoroughfare.†   (source)
  • This is one of those miserable thoroughfares which intervene between the Rue Richelieu and the Rue St. Roch.†   (source)
  • …speaking) at the bottom of Pivart's irrigation; Wakem had tried to make Dix stand out, and go to law about the dam; it was unquestionably Wakem who had caused Mr. Tulliver to lose the suit about the right of road and the bridge that made a thoroughfare of his land for every vagabond who preferred an opportunity of damaging private property to walking like an honest man along the highroad; all lawyers were more or less rascals, but Wakem's rascality was of that peculiarly aggravated…†   (source)
  • In France contributions in kind take place on very few roads; in America upon almost all the thoroughfares: in the former country the roads are free to all travellers; in the latter turnpikes abound.†   (source)
  • Mr. Pumblechook helped me to the liver wing, and to the best slice of tongue (none of those out-of-the-way No Thoroughfares of Pork now), and took, comparatively speaking, no care of himself at all.†   (source)
  • In the town were some substantial windowless houses of stone scattered among a wilderness of thatched cabins; the streets were mere crooked alleys, and unpaved; troops of dogs and nude children played in the sun and made life and noise; hogs roamed and rooted contentedly about, and one of them lay in a reeking wallow in the middle of the main thoroughfare and suckled her family.†   (source)
  • It has a kind of established repose which is not of frequent occurrence in other quarters of the long, shrill city; it has a riper, richer, more honourable look than any of the upper ramifications of the great longitudinal thoroughfare—the look of having had something of a social history.†   (source)
  • That second-floor arch in a London house, looking up and down the well of the staircase and commanding the main thoroughfare by which the inhabitants are passing; by which cook lurks down before daylight to scour her pots and pans in the kitchen; by which young master stealthily ascends, having left his boots in the hall, and let himself in after dawn from a jolly night at the Club; down which miss comes rustling in fresh ribbons and spreading muslins, brilliant and beautiful, and…†   (source)
  • In thoroughfares nigh the docks, any considerable seaport will frequently offer to view the queerest looking nondescripts from foreign parts.†   (source)
  • He stooped a good deal, and plodded along in a slow pre-occupied manner, which made the bustling London thoroughfares no very safe resort for him.†   (source)
  • They went back to dress and dine; and so well had the scheme answered already, that nothing was found amiss; though its being "so entirely out of season," and the "no thoroughfare of Lyme," and the "no expectation of company," had brought many apologies from the heads of the inn.†   (source)
  • …of a sort of Tuscan architecture; farther off, the remains of a gigantic aqueduct; here, the caked heights of an acropolis along with the fluid forms of a Parthenon; there, the remnants of a wharf, as if some bygone port had long ago harbored merchant vessels and triple–tiered war galleys on the shores of some lost ocean; still farther off, long rows of collapsing walls, deserted thoroughfares, a whole Pompeii buried under the waters, which Captain Nemo had resurrected before my eyes!†   (source)
  • 'To carry out an idea,' repeated Miss La Creevy; 'and that's the great convenience of living in a thoroughfare like the Strand.†   (source)
  • Some malevolent spirit, doing his utmost to drive Hepzibah mad, unrolled before her imagination a kind of panorama, representing the great thoroughfare of a city all astir with customers.†   (source)
  • The western windows were four in number, the northern only two, all set on the line of the second story in such manner as to overhang the thoroughfares below.†   (source)
  • In front of her a colony of ants had established a thoroughfare across the way, where they toiled a never-ending and heavy-laden throng.†   (source)
  • Some of the compassionate and curious bystanders joined the party; and headed by one of the constables arm in arm with Bartleby, the silent procession filed its way through all the noise, and heat, and joy of the roaring thoroughfares at noon.†   (source)
  • Now, the road, in fact, was an old one, that had formerly been a thoroughfare to the river, but abandoned for many years after the laying of the new pike.†   (source)
  • Sometimes these cabins stretched off on either side like wings; sometimes only on one side, forming a double row, or edging the road that turned into the plantation from the main thoroughfare.†   (source)
  • It was a warm, dusty evening, just the time when, in the great main thoroughfare out of which that by-way turned, there was a temporary lull in the eternal tread of feet upon the pavement, and a strong red sunshine.†   (source)
  • …sound the depths of that badly constructed organism; if it were granted to us to look with a torch behind those non-transparent organs to explore the shadowy interior of that opaque creature, to elucidate his obscure corners, his absurd no-thoroughfares, and suddenly to cast a vivid light upon the soul enchained at the extremity of that cave, we should, no doubt, find the unhappy Psyche in some poor, cramped, and ricketty attitude, like those prisoners beneath the Leads of Venice,…†   (source)
  • Out southwest to the gates of the Grove, the magnificent thoroughfare stretched a little over four miles from the city.†   (source)
  • But granting all this; yet, regarded discreetly and coolly, seems it not but a mad idea, this; that in the broad boundless ocean, one solitary whale, even if encountered, should be thought capable of individual recognition from his hunter, even as a white-bearded Mufti in the thronged thoroughfares of Constantinople?†   (source)
  • …finds itself able and at ease: he was enamoured of that arduous invention which is the very eye of research, provisionally framing its object and correcting it to more and more exactness of relation; he wanted to pierce the obscurity of those minute processes which prepare human misery and joy, those invisible thoroughfares which are the first lurking-places of anguish, mania, and crime, that delicate poise and transition which determine the growth of happy or unhappy consciousness.†   (source)
  • Holgrave had read very little, and that little in passing through the thoroughfare of life, where the mystic language of his books was necessarily mixed up with the babble of the multitude, so that both one and the other were apt to lose any sense that might have been properly their own.†   (source)
  • I now remembered that, in fact, a fruiterer, carrying upon his head a large basket of apples, had nearly thrown me down, by accident, as we passed from the Rue C ---- into the thoroughfare where we stood; but what this had to do with Chantilly I could not possibly understand.†   (source)
  • "Shall I go there or not?" thought Raskolnikov, standing in the middle of the thoroughfare at the cross-roads, and he looked about him, as though expecting from someone a decisive word.†   (source)
  • The street was laid out, a name was chosen and posted up on an iron plate, but before construction was begun, it occurred to the possessor of the property that a handsome sum might be obtained for the ground then devoted to fruits and vegetables, by building along the line of the proposed street, and so making it a branch of communication with the Faubourg Saint-Honore itself, one of the most important thoroughfares in the city of Paris.†   (source)
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