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Example sentences for "narrow street"

  • Modern improvements have altered the place; but it was the last house at the bottom of a narrow street, curving down hill to the river, with some stairs at the end, where people took boat.

  • We wheeled him off into a narrow street, where he took out his pocket-handkerchief, and stood with his back to a wall.

  • Presently, we came into a narrow street, where, besides one line of carriages going, there was another line of carriages returning.

  • Again he crossed the wide thoroughfare, walked along a narrow street, and re-entered hastily his own departmental buildings.

  • With a turn to the left Mr Verloc pursued his way along a narrow street by the side of a yellow wall which, for some inscrutable reason, had No.

  • Cautiously they wend their way down the dark, narrow street, into a filthy alley, and through it to an open space laid bare by some recent fire.

  • It is, however, known that Rienzi was not born in this house, but in a narrow street behind S.

  • Hence a narrow street leads to the Church of S.

  • The cab turned into a narrow street of little shops.

  • It was nearly dark when they reached a narrow street close to the cathedral.

  • The former is a narrow street, corresponding in dimensions with one of the less important among the side canals in the other city.

  • My guide, after conversing for a few moments with a sous-officier of his regiment, turned from the Plaza into a narrow street, the termination to which was formed by a large building now brilliantly lit up.

  • We entered a narrow street on the other side, took two or three turnings to right and left, and at last came to a standstill at some steps that I had never noticed before.

  • This proved to be a narrow street-scene by moonlight.

  • Without a word the man entered a narrow street on the right, then turned to the left, after which to the right again.

  • They turned down a narrow street of quiet houses, and came out on to the Plage.

  • He left the melancholy group, once more beginning their sad business, and went out again into the narrow street.

  • But the press was stubborn and a man might as well hope to make his way through a herd of camels crowded together in a narrow street.

  • And when Abdullah walks about the city alone lie in wait for him, for you will easily catch him in a narrow street, and two or three score of you can run after him begging for alms, until he is surrounded on all sides.

  • And this we will do continually, when he is abroad, until one day to escape from us he will turn quickly into a narrow street, supposing that we cannot see him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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