He skipped wildly out of the way and up on the curbstone with a purely instinctive precision; his mind had nothing to do with his movements.
By then the cab had drawn up to the curbstone and was stopped.
In fact there were no blackboards at all around which the British could hold curbstone parliaments, for Lord Kitchener's censorship was not parting with news enough, apparently, to make even the chalk worth while.
As he flitted by, the huge crowds lined up on the curbstone stiffened into attitudes, clicked heels, doffed hats and "hoched.
The blind stripling tapped the curbstone and went on his way, drawing his cane back, feeling again.
On the curbstone before Jimmy Geary, the sexton's, an old tramp sat, grumbling, emptying the dirt and stones out of his huge dustbrown yawning boot.
From the curbstonehe darted a keen glance through the door of the postoffice.
A bony form strode along thecurbstone from the river staring with a rapt gaze into the sunlight through a heavystringed glass.
Tap blind walked tapping by the tap the curbstone tapping, tap by tap.
A blind stripling stood tapping the curbstone with his slender cane.
BLOOM: (Bloom trickleaps to the curbstone and halts again.
Oot: a dullgarbed old man from the curbstone tendered his wares, his mouth opening: oot.
I tried it myself once with an imperious old woman, who clung to the curbstone some twenty minutes before she could muster courage for the plunge, lecturing me fluently all the time on the dangers of a rash disposition.
The children sitting on the curbstone rocked their little bodies back and forth in excitement.
The passage was dark, and, to my delight, I heard some of them breaking their shins over the curbstone and old pear-tree of my defences.
There was a bit of curbstone from the street, and other such trash, which quite masked the fence and the hand-cart.
The marshal handed her out with old-fashioned gallantry, threw his horse's head-weight on the curbstone and accompanied her upstairs.
Possibly so"--he filliped off the lighted end of his cigar, but it fell into a black moat alongside of the curbstone and went out with a gentle hiss.
Now, that Lazarus should lie stranded there on the curbstone before the door of Dives, this is more wonderful than that an iceberg should be moored to one of the Moluccas.
And there they stop: at the curbstone of the people's life.
He was first heard of in Wall Street as a curbstone broker, taking enormous risks and always lucky.
The curbstone was lined with a score of reporters of the city journals, each with his note-book.
The shrewd curbstone broker may climb to a seat in the Stock Exchange; quite as often a lord of the Board, a commander of millions, may be reduced to the seedy watcher of the bulletin-board in a bucket-shop.
From this circumstance they are termed "curbstone brokers," a name which will probably cling to them.
Men who gamble in stocks, curbstone brokers, and others, vainly endeavor to make good a part of their losses at these places.
He amassed a small sum of money, and being naturally a sharp, shrewd man, went into Wall street, and joined the "Curbstone Brokers.
There are still others who are not ashamed to mingle openly with the throng of curbstone brokers, and carry on their operations behind the sanctity of their white cravats.
It was her hour, and he had grown used to seeing her sitting on the curbstone by the churchyard gate every day when he went home just before sunset.
It was merely this; that as I rode along the streets on that memorable morning, searching for that mark on the curbstone from which I hoped so much, I had come upon a spot where the pavement had been freshly washed.
Without a word she drew me towards a carriage I now observed standing by the curbstone a few feet to the left.
Noting the streets between which we had paused, I bade the driver to turn down one and come back by the other, occupying myself in the meanwhile, in searching the curbstone for the small mark I had left in front of her door the night before.
And it might be that the pavers and ditchers and shovellers and curbstone men and asphalt makers should vote wrong.
There was a bit of curbstone from the street, and other such trash, which quite masked the fence and the hand- cart.
At that very moment Pascal was waiting, seated on the curbstone opposite the mansion.
Having at least twenty minutes to wait, Pascal sat down on the curbstone opposite the Hotel de Chalusse, and fixed his eyes upon the building as if he were striving to penetrate the massive walls, and see what was passing within.
If you are a beggar, as you very well may be in Rome, you impart your personal heat to a specific curbstone or the spot which you select as being most in the path of charity, and cling to it from dawn till dark.
Upon the evening appointed a carpet is spread from the curbstone to the front door, and over this is placed a temporary awning.
After a while, she advanced to the curb on Jane's side of the street, and, swinging her right foot, allowed it to kick the curbstone repeatedly.
There was a pause during which she continued to scuff the curbstone with her shoe, Jane likewise scuffing the fence-picket.
The man on the curbstone is the arbiter of our destinies, and the standard man.
The most learned scholar reveals all the philistinism and prejudice of the man-on-the-curbstone when mores are in discussion.
He dropped down on the curbstoneand sat there thinking for some time.
