Persuade the city to build a gigantic asphalt sewer.
He leaned himself against the dripping, cold pane, and regarded the lights below, shining on the wet asphalt of the quais.
Below, the long line of the quais was outlined by long rows of electric lights, swaying and tossing from their poles, and illuminating the shining, wet asphalt of the Bund.
The Val de Travers asphalt was discovered in 1710.
It is of organic origin, the asphalt of the great Pitch Lake of Trinidad being derived from bituminous shales, containing vegetable remains in the process of transformation.
If this be distilled, naphtha and other volatile matters escape, and asphalt is left behind.
They came to one of those small triangular parks which abound in Washington, where there are seats under the trees and asphalt walks winding in and out of shrubbery.
Valuable salt is obtained from the pits at Dolnja Tuzla, and the southern part of Herzegovina yieldsasphalt and lignite.
Here, on theasphalt pavements, the broughams and hansoms rolled noiselessly to and fro among the opulent houses with tidy front grass plots and shining steps.
They were almost at her father's house, walking along the steamingasphalt of the quiet avenue.
From the quiet decorous boulevard, with its clean asphalt pavement and pleasant trees, he turned at once into the dirty cross street.
The asphalt of the pavements and the cement of the walks glistened white under its rays.
I sauntered past it leisurely, and walked down the asphalt path.
In the afternoon I saw Miss Darrell pacing up and down the asphalt walk.
Not for worlds would I have confronted them alone in that dark asphalt walk.
I heard them talking in "Conspiracy Corner"; you know that seat in the asphalt walk?
Mr. Hamilton was pacing up and down the asphalt walk as he had paced the passage last night.
Mr. Hamilton, I am going to repeat the conversation that I have just overheard between Leah and her mistress when they were in the seat in the asphalt walk: you shall hear it from my lips word for word.
So was every window on both sides of the Boulevard for several hundred feet, and a big ragged hole beside the asphalt showed where the bomb had fallen.
That is the way my obstinate comrade flits across woods and walls, stands still when I stand still, dances over the faces of passers-by, over the asphalt paving wet from the rain, over everything my eyes happen to fall upon.
Inside an hour the automobile raced back to safety, back to the bath-tub, and you promenaded asphalt streets again in shining pumps.
On the asphalt terrace also, but separated from the head master's classic habitation by a small square space, was the lingerie, managed by Mlle.
That magnificent avenue, over a mile long and one hundred and ten feet wide, asphalt paved and superbly illuminated, is lined with costly modern buildings, some of them truly imposing.
The streets, as I first saw them, were roughly cobbled, now they are asphalt paved, and made into beautiful avenues, such as would grace any capital of the world.
There are seven miles of asphaltstreets and several miles of vitrified brick.
Whitehall and Peachtree Streets, connecting at the viaduct, form a continuous asphalt boulevard three and one-half miles long.
On one hand a wide asphalt path ran parallel with the drive; on the other lay a darksome hedge of trees and shrubbery.
A line of trees bordered it at a considerable distance; beneath them were visible patches of asphalt walk, shining coldly under electric arcs.
It makes no difference where the ditch is dug, from which the asphalt is taken, as the hole left the night before is filled again by the following morning.
Some of these blocks of hardened asphalt had been polished by the sea until they shone like jewels of jet as large as a table, others, fringed with green seaweed, gave the shore an uncanny appearance of a sea-beach not of this earth.
Although previously warned, Stuart could not repress an exclamation of disappointed surprise at his first view of this famous lake, the greatest deposit of natural asphalt in the world.
Asphalt is less than a twentieth part of the value of the exports of the island, so, you see, Trinidad would have been rich without that.
As for where thisasphalt come from, I don't know, and nobody knows.
Trying to change the subject, Stuart commenced to ask questions about where the asphalt came from, and the manager, who seemed to be a Canadian, turned on the boy, sharply.
And I caught myself thinking what an improvement the asphalt was in Witching Hill Road, and how we did want it in Mulcaster Park.
A soft step came marching round the asphalt curve, throwing a bright beam now upon its indigo surface, and now over the fussy fronts of the red houses, as a child plays with a bit of looking-glass in the sun.
For we were still in that asphalt passage, and the couple had scarcely quitted it at the other end, when Delavoye drew off his glove and showed me the missing ring upon his little finger.
We were cutting off the last corner before Richmond by following the asphalt foot-path behind St. Stephen's Church.
Here we escaped the mud at last; the moist asphalt shone with a cleanly lustre; and our footsteps threw an echo ahead, between the two long walls, until it mixed with the tramp of approaching feet, and another couple advanced into view.
Even Mr. Delavoye won't thank you for keeping him standing on this villainous asphalt till his feet sink in.
She saw, a long way off, a solitary hooded sergent de ville, and dragged herself across an endless expanse of wet asphalt to ask him her way.
More inquiry, the disdaining of a cab, and a twenty minutes' walk along curving asphalt walks with houses far enough back to lose their identities among trees.
Gravel walks when once in order, may be rendered nearly equal to asphalt by pouring over them tar or a mixture of tar and pitch, absorption being promoted, if required, by the application of a hot iron.
Here, during those months when the sun made the asphalt soft, on a scaffolding spanning the window of the store, might be seen a perspiring young man in his shirt sleeves chalking up baseball scores for the benefit of a crowd below.
Her way lay along Faber Street, the main artery of Hampton, a wide strip of asphalt threaded with car tracks, lined on both sides with incongruous edifices indicative of a rapid, undiscriminating, and artless prosperity.
There had been no other first-class passengers to embark and the forward end of the asphalt was deserted.
Patricia, as the expert stepped before them on to the long, dusky, asphalt platform.
Go slowly over this rough place," the doctor ordered; and the speed lessened, to be renewed a little farther on, where the asphalt pavement began again.
The arc-lights blazed into the depths of the tall chestnut-trees beside the street, while the four young people stood for a moment clustered together on the asphalt walk before the glass-porch.
Then came other, quick steps on the asphalt path, and the girls saw over Hugo's rather portly shoulder a taller, slighter figure coming up the road behind him.
