Dusty, dishevelled, and of dilapidated attire, I leant Lizzie up against the kerb and mounted the marble steps of the "First National Bank.
I leave Lizzie leaning against the kerband go for an ice-cream soda; when I return, Lizzie is no longer visible.
I leant Lizzie against the kerb outside and pressed my nose against the window-pane.
Often one can see a row of men sitting on the kerb for the whole length of a "block" when the sun is in such a direction that the sitters are sheltered by the buildings behind them.
And standing at the kerb of Piccadilly Circus, waiting for a 'bus to take her to Ludgate Hill Station, the girl grew conscious of the moving multitude that filled the streets.
The dwelling-house was over the shop; the shop entrance faced the kerb in the King's Road.
A big, puffy man with a person that rendered his boots invisible, guided the hand-cart he was pushing into the kerb in front of No.
Ere, get on wiv it, Charley," he admonished the lad, who was standing by the kerb as if reluctant to trespass.
Against the kerb before the entrance a motor-car was stationed.
When in the early hours of the morning Mrs Lawless appeared on the pavement on Van Bleit's arm, Lawless was standing on the kerb beside the waiting motor in the act of lighting a cigar.
In an instant the car grazed past them, almost biting the kerb on the other side.
The nature of the kerb is decided by the nature of the materials within the Lycosa's reach, in the close neighbourhood of the building-yard.
But all, little by little, build the kerbthat is to edge the mouth.
Daily, if the sky be clear, the Lycosa, carrying her young, comes up from the burrow, leans on the kerb and spends long hours basking in the sun.
Clare, gently tapping the kerb of the pavement with his cane.
They rattled over the cobbles and clattered over the kidney stones and jolted prodigiously over a kerb that protruded too far into the road.
Muche had caught sight of her from the market, where he was amusing himself by dropping little dead fishes into the gutter, following them along the kerb as the water carried them away, and declaring that they were swimming.
Florent felt interested in one enormous tumbrel which was piled up with magnificent cabbages, and had only been backed to the kerb with the greatest difficulty.
On the kerb opposite stood the thick-set young man, who, having seen her signal, watched her leave, and then crossed and entered the hotel.
By this time Grant had arrived in the hall to let out Miss Sheila's visitor, and indeed he had opened the door for him, when at that same moment a taxi, turning in from Curzon Street, slowly drew up at the kerb before the house.
The pair ascended to the street, and after standing on the kerb for a few moments entered a tram car, while I climbed on top.
At first she was unwilling, making a couple of vague excuses and contradicting herself in her confusion; but as I hailed a cab and it drew up to the kerb she saw that all further effort to avoid me was unavailing, and accompanied me.
For the kerbuproar "the uncommunicating muteness of fishes" was the only panacea.
A policeman who warned me away from the kerb gave me some tobacco.
They were standing together on the kerb outside the Tube station at Piccadilly Circus as Benton uttered the words.
At the end of the street a taxi was drawn up at the kerb awaiting him.
At the kerb he saw the dim red rear-light of a car, and almost at the same moment a rough-looking Italian chauffeur approached him.
But the glass of these places of entertainment was all opaque, and there were no loungers on the kerb in front of any.
We sailed past Hyde Park Corner, down Knightsbridge, and cut along Brompton Road into Fulham Road, and rounded into King's Road, cutting the kerb a trifle too fine.
There is, of course, always the kerb to guide me, and in the main thoroughfares there are tramlines.
A man can give himself a nasty jar, or even injure himself pretty severely, by merely stepping off a kerb, if he doesn’t know the kerb is there.
And one of you men look after the steering so that I don't tumble off the kerb or get run over.
She was still speaking when he shot out to the street, dodged back of the waiting groups by the kerb and disappeared among the night traffic of the street in the direction of a certain bar.
The majority of the shoppers came afoot, but the kerb was lined with buggies, surries, neat station wagons and dog-carts, crowded in between the delivery wagons.
To-day there was no Beggar Man, no wonderful car gliding up to the kerb to pick her up and carry her the weary way home; such a thing could not happen a second time.
Faith stood on the kerb while he went in pursuit of a taxicab.
As the vehicle was passing under the railway viaduct in the Waterloo Road it skidded on the greasy surface and dashing into the kerb smashed the nearside fore-wheel.
Jellyboy, the porter, was standing on the kerb beckoning frantically to a newsboy.
Jeekes in the same language, and resumed his seat as the car glided smoothly away from the kerbinto the traffic of the busy square.
The car drew up at the kerb and halted within a few feet of the advertisement pillar.
Its playground was the cramped kitchen floor and the kerb and the gutter.
Quick as thought, in order to avoid meeting him face to face, I stepped off the kerb into the roadway.
I saw by his hesitation on the kerb that he was disappointed.
