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Example sentences for "side street"

  • I was about to venture some remonstrance, but she would not hear me until we had left the square, and were pacing down a side street.

  • Leaving my omnibus in the Uxbridge Road, I walked up a side street to the house.

  • The truck turned down a side street, and as they reached the station the officer got out without waiting for Patricia to come to a full stop.

  • Much to Patricia's surprise they turned away from the college buildings and down a side street.

  • He crossed from curb to curb slowly, sheltered by a fringe of people that, however, in no way obstructed his view down the side street.

  • The house being on the corner, the entrance to the garage was directly from the side street.

  • He turned to the eastward, down a side street where a large building was in the course of erection.

  • The widow's cottage was a tumbled-down affair on a side street of Dexter's Corners.

  • At that moment the figure of a tall, lanky colored man came down a side street.

  • We got free at last, and he struck down a side street, and made one or two sharp turns to right and left.

  • But he took my arm and led me up a side street, and stopped at a door in a high wall.

  • The tree before his window was but a shabby sycamore, and the window belonged to a hall bedroom in a shabby boarding-house down a side street.

  • Then they turned into a side street, and pushed their way westward.

  • You told me,' I said, 'that the American had gone down a side street.

  • The American certainly went down the side street, but of course I watched the cab which contained the jewels.

  • After handing the box to Dubois, I turned down a side street, and then into another whose name I do not know, and there in a shop with sealing wax and string did up the real diamonds for posting.

  • He was just leaving the vicinity of the station, when, chancing to look down a side street, he saw a sight that filled him with astonishment.

  • With his papers under his arm, Dick Talcott hurried down a side street, and around a corner.

  • Coming to an alley way, Nat darted through it to a side street, and then around a corner to a thoroughfare leading down to the docks.

  • The matter needed several minutes of explanation before misunderstandings were cleared up, so that we withdrew into a side street.

  • At the corner of a side street on the far side of the Rue de Galata Titoff parted from his companion.

  • Coming toward it from the bridge across the Golden Horn one passed along a side street so narrow that the bodies of passengers clinging to the rails of the swaying and much-loaded tram-cars often collided with pedestrians.

  • We turned into a side street to see a fine palazzo; then, crossing the market-place, went on to the Palazzo Pretoria.

  • We took another little carriage, standing in a side street, and had a very pleasant drive back to Spello, between vineyards and olive groves, eating our luncheon on the way.

  • Down an arched passage close by, and up a side street on the right, we reached Via Deliziosa; in this Perugino's house is marked by a tablet.

  • The car stopped with a jar on a side street, some distance from the quarantined section.

  • From both directions and down a side street as well the dwellers in the slums straggled into the open space in front of the "Clarion" office.

  • And having watched the lad disappear, Ellerey went quickly down a side street, and by many turnings and doublings on his track, sought to escape any spy who might chance to be watching him.

  • They had turned from a side street into a narrow thoroughfare with tall, dark houses on either side.

  • In the neighborhood of the Grande Place he lingered in a side street until he saw the lad approaching the statue, when he went to meet him.

  • If we see him in time, we can go down a side street.

  • Later on, down a side street, he pauses before a house with its face blown away.

  • As I walked slowly back into town I felt a reluctance to return to the noisy hotel, and finding myself in front of a little restaurant on a side street, I entered it.

  • One civilian, a youngish man a little inclined to stoutness, stopped at the gate, stared, then thrust some papers in his pocket and hurried down the side street.

  • Their own new English bull-dog revolvers were to serve as weapons in the coming combat, and a carriage was to be in waiting for them in a side street at seven o'clock.

  • The two stood looking after the carriage until it turned into a side street, half way down the shady stretch toward the castle.

  • Despite their queries he offered no explanation, but rushed them along, passing out of the opposite door, down a short stairway and into a side street.

  • An hour afterward, while walking with the doctor in a side street, Phil's attention was attracted by the notes of a hand-organ.

  • Next he strolled into a side street, and began to play in front of some dwelling-houses.

  • Meanwhile Tim, satisfied with the mischief he had done, and feeling revenged for his former mortification, walked up a side street, and escaped interference.

  • And the Irishman pointed to a side street.

  • After a walk of half an hour, both felt hungry and entered a modest-looking restaurant on a side street.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after time; anything but; certain articles; elections last; epithelial cells; exile from; full cock; heaven and; her power; here you; interim president; local banks; necessary condition; physical defect; republican form; right judgment; side corner; side door; side glance; sided figure; sided prisms; sided smile; sidelong glance; single sheet; weigh anchor; will restore