On the broad shady pavements of the streets she used to choose, when she was alone, she made many a pause to watch the little children at their play.
But the pavements were dry and clean, and in spite of dirty crossings and mud bespattering carriages, they were thronged with gay promenaders, eager to welcome the spring.
With rippling, curling, Serpentine convolutions The pavements drip with drunken light.
The air is mild, and the pavements seem like a country road after the awful crowd of the lobby.
The rattle of the pavements is silence compared with the rattle of tongues which we have left behind us.
Johnson would desire to be transformed into an omnibus, that he might go rolling along the streets whose very pavements were the objects of his ardent affection.
The cabs and the crowds were gone, and only the nightmen were there swilling up the dirt of the pavements with their hose-pipes and water.
The passages of the house and the pavements outside were now empty; it was nearly two o'clock, and snow was beginning to fall.
Forks of lightning lit up the park, and floods of black rain made the vacant pavements like the surface of the sea.
But the houses themselves, with their occasional pavements and the one admirable mosaic, leave little to be desired.
Pavements still remain intact in some of the rooms, and altar bases and exedral seats lie all about in apparent confusion.
Scouring the streets in search of a flat, they had chanced to cross the narrow Rue des Grands-Augustins, which has preserved its old-world aspect, and whose greasy pavements are never dry.
I directed her, then glancing into her face, noticed how tired she looked, and a vista of the weary pavements she would have to tramp flashed before me.
Among the methods of this witch activity especially credited in central and southern Europe was the anointing of city walls and pavements with a diabolical unguent causing pestilence.
In 1530 Michael Caddo was executed with fearful tortures for thus besmearing the pavements of Geneva.
Neat, smooth, hard, beautiful pavements are now taking the place everywhere of the unsatisfactory gravel, wood, and brick pavements of former days.
The pavements were dark for miles around with people coming in, the little market-place on the crown of the hill, and the main street of Beldover were black with thickly-crowded men and women.
The air was full of the sound of criers and of people talking, thick streams of people moved on the pavements towards the solid crowd of the market.
It was just after a hard rain, and the pools on the broken pavements were full of blue sky.
He had awaited the day with impatience equal to mine, and the visions he saw as he hurried us over the sun-flecked pavements transcended all my dreams.
There were taxes for public works, but rotten pavements went on rotting year after year; and when a bridge was to be built, special taxes were levied.
It had required the employment of five assistants, and even these could make little impression on the list of applicants who crowded the rooms and blocked the pavements from morning until night.
As far as the eye could reach the throng engulfed the pavements and overflowed into the streets between the curbs, mingling with the mass of cars, cabs, trucks and wagons.
Within ten minutes from the time the large doors were opened every seat was filled and hundreds stood on the pavements outside, waiting developments, unable to gain admission.
The goods displayed in the windows are of a secondary quality, at best; and the people who throng the pavements are people who want second-rate articles.
Of course we went to see the venerable relic of the ancient glory of Venice, with its pavementsworn and broken by the passing feet of a thousand years of plebeians and patricians--The Cathedral of St. Mark.
And do I not know by these signs that Street Commissioners of Pompeii never attended to their business, and that if they never mended the pavements they never cleaned them?
We caught a glimpse of the handsome tessellated pavements within and of the devotees performing their ablutions at the fountains, but even that we took that glimpse was a thing not relished by the Moorish bystanders.
I know whereof I speak--for in the great, chief thoroughfares (Merchant street and the Street of Fortune) have I not seen with my own eyes how for two hundred years at least the pavements were not repaired!
We passed by a picturesque old gothic ruin whose stone pavements had rung to the armed heels of many a valorous Crusader, and we rode through a piece of country which we were told once knew Samson as a citizen.
When I start to walk on stone pavements the ache of them is in my feet before I set a foot on them because I'm so Tired.
I walk many a mile along the stone pavements and into distant odd streets and on open roads at the outskirts of this Butte.
We can judge of the approximate age in which the stonecutter lived, by the fact that in his time the pavements of the Roman house were already covered with a stratum of rubbish six feet thick.
We have one specimen left of these inscribed pavements in the church of SS.
In another the three pavements in use at different times may be seen in situ, one above another.
At this time the pavements are strewn with box, the halls and galleries are bright with fresh flowers, and Swiss guards are posted at the different turnings, to facilitate the circulation of visitors.
And brothers' blood, by brothers shed, Crept curdling over pavements cold.
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