Our carriage fairly stuck in one of these alleys as we were attempting to pass through it; and for some minutes it seemed problematical whether we should be able to wriggle free.
The alleys are lit only by small holes pierced in the crowns of the vaulting; and so solid seem the beams of light that fall athwart the dustladen gloom, that the passenger instinctively checks his pace before he ventures to breast them.
Once they went out to Chantilly, the cameo-like chateau that stands mirrored in its waters, and wandered through the alleys there.
Patrick Wishart advised that we should stop up all the alleys and closes as far down as the Blackfriar's Wynd with barracadoes of carts, barrels, and puncheons, to prevent the enemy sallying forth upon us from behind.
I knew that the sharpshooters would be placed in the alleys of the garden.
Michael had been spending enough time in the alleysof the metropolis to be already deeply interested in the problem of the city, and deeply pained by its sorrows.
Perhaps some day if he gets interested he'll help do what I want for the alley, and all the other alleys in the city; make better laws and see that they're enforced.
There is a long and splendid row of fine buildings upon the quay on the river bank, elegant jewelry stores and hotels, a few other good streets, and the usual amount of narrow alleys and dirty lanes.
These gardens on fine Sunday afternoons are thronged with people from the city, strolling through their shady alleys and beautiful walks.
Is it through the immense width of the alleys that the noise of the bands seems scattered and lost?
He ran through alleys and across commons until he caught a street car for the smelters.
Stretching down long avenues these flickering torches blocked out the alleys of the mine in either direction from the room, perhaps fifty by forty feet, six or seven feet high, where they were standing.
Now and then a servant passed through the alleysof clipped box to see to the lanterns.
Here in the tall box alleys as a child I had many times played, and every foot of the ground was pleasingly familiar.
And suddenly a strong red light, cast by the cloud-weight downwards, spread like fingers over the moorland, opened the alleys of darkness, and hung on the steel of the riders.
Long-drawn alleys of white haze seemed to lead towards him, yet such as he could not come down, with any warmth remaining.
Together the two policemen rode away up the shadow-haunted alleys of the steep and narrow barranca.
As they proceeded up the shadow-haunted alleys of the barranca, their pace quickened.
Among them are many very good houses, and the roads and alleys by which they are intersected are well planted with poplars and willows, shading pleasant streams which supply the water for irrigation.
The high weather-worn mud walls along the alleys have no windows, in order that the women may not see or be seen by men.
He hurried through several alleys and streets, and at length turned into one, lighted only by a single lamp at the farther end.
I am making winding alleys all round my park, which will be of great beauty," writes Madame de Sevigne, in 1671.
The comfort and the elegance of a garden depend in no slight degree upon good gravel walks, but having secured gravel walks to all parts of the grounds, green alleys should also be provided.
The long straight alleys appear to us insipid; the palisades cold and formless.
Those groves, those alleys where I have passed so many charming moments, stripped up!
Johnny and Keith found the square jammed, but the latter led the way by devious alleys to the rear of the Monumental headquarters, and so out to a little second-story balcony.
The interims were dark, and the side streets and alleys stygian.
I warn you not so much against the abomination that hides in the lower courts and alleys of the town, as against the more damnable vice that hides behind the white shutters and brownstone fronts of the upper classes.
Soon after the third watch they stalk forth, silently, looking out for the police, through the alleys to their appointed work.
Here was laid out a vast and beautiful garden, filled with noble statues and marble basins, that extended its geometrical alleys and lines of symmetrical trees to a park around which spread the magnificent forest.
First, From fevers and other diseases generated by heated and impure atmosphere; from which even one day's escape in seven may tend to relieve the present dwellers in the dark courts and alleys of London.
Fully equipped, except for a blanket, I followed Chal-az from his domicile into the dark and deserted alleys of Kro-lu.
The messenger led me through the labyrinthine alleys to an open plaza near the center of the village.
The winter covering of litter should be raked into the walks or alleys as soon as winter is over and allowed to remain there as a mulch for keeping the soil cool and damp and for the purpose of keeping the berries clean.
In that the plague rageth and reigneth especially amongst the younger sort, and such as do not greatly regard clean and sweet keeping, and where many are pestered together in alleys and houses--is not this an argument of infection?
The former related only to the alleys leading down to the river, which were likely enough places for nuisance, then as now[623].
If the stalwart figure of the man loomed at midnight in a dance hall on the Barbary Coast of San Francisco or in the darkest alleys of an Oakland water-front saloon, his presence was remarked, but his purpose was never doubted.
The fresh salt breeze was very grateful to his face and lungs after the noisome alleys through which his mission had taken him.
Jails, theaters, hotels, questionable side entrances, boulevards and alleys were accustomed to the sight of his comings and goings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alleys" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
