The sloping road came to an end sooner than at Natchez, and the sidewalk did not reveal any pitfalls like those in Cairo a few years ago.
Turning to the left at the end of the pier, we found a plank sidewalk ascending a sloping road in the hillside.
The windows were of lattice work, the roof had a dragon's head at each end of the ridge, and a mosaic pavement extended like a sidewalk around the entire building.
These head-waiters in command of the sidewalk portion of these establishments will note your arrival and departure with the quickness with which a telephone operator detects the dropping of one of a thousand numbers on a central switchboard.
Later some of these confetti hawkers began replenishing their stock from the sidewalk where it could literally be gathered by the shovelful.
The Sidewalk Conversation or Gag Act This form may or may not open and close with songs, and depends upon skillfully blended, but not necessarily related, gags and jokes.
Weber and Fields--before they made so much money that they retired to indulge in the pleasant pastime of producing shows--presented probably the most famous of all the sidewalk comedian slap-stick acts.
They elevated the slap-stick sidewalk conversation act into national popularity and certainly reduced the business of their performance to a science--or raised it to an art.
Two doors above the corner where Miss Marlenspuyk was standing a striped awning stretched its convolutions across the sidewalk and up the irregular stone steps, and thrust itself into the door-way at the top of the stoop.
Then two men stepped from the sidewalk and lifted him to his feet, while a boy picked up his hat and handed it to him.
As the old man read this, the paper slipped from his fingers, and he fell on the sidewalk dead, still tightly grasping the pardon.
And one evening, in the middle of the week, the Solo Orchestra appeared on the sidewalk in front of our house and gave a concert for our special benefit.
The wind was still sharpening, and the wooden signs which projected across the sidewalk here and there swung heavily as they felt its force.
From this he pitched to the sidewalk with a broken leg and a dislocated shoulder.
The foliage of the trees which lined the curb was so thick that Stone could not see the sidewalk just below him, and apparently those in charge of operations had not seen him.
It came along the sidewalk and seemed about to pounce down upon the American tracker with the greatest ease.
You were on the sidewalk watching me like a hawk; I am Roland Riggs, yet you shadow me.
One bright afternoon Keller stood on the sidewalk in front of the store.
Then in shutting up the store she forgot her rubber over-shoes, and the sidewalk was plastered with sticky mud.
Over the sidewalk swung a shabby black sign with gilt letters that spelled, "Franz Baumbach.
He stepped to one side of the wooden sidewalk and crawled under it.
The boy crawled out from under the sidewalk as the next batch of fugitives, three of them, reached the corner.
Moreover they feared lest the noise would bring into the basement the sentry whose steps they could hear on the sidewalk outside.
A figure leaned out from under the sidewalk and observed him.
Looking round fairly he saw a man with a whitish cap stagger off the sidewalk and fall in the snow.
On the sidewalk not far from her door he met Reardon with a casual nod, and Reardon blazed out at him, "Damn you!
She was using her parasol for a cane, and now, in instinctive remonstrance, she struck it the more forcibly on the sidewalk and had to stop and pull it out from a worn space between the bricks.
When he got there he found the sidewalk in front of the tenement piled up with furniture.
Others who heard the glass rattle down on the sidewalk ran in to see what had happened.
A few days after the Gainses left the bank Fred was going along Broad street when he saw a little crowd on the sidewalk listening to a young man explaining a gas-saving appliance.
Several vehicles drew up at the same moment in front of Mrs. Mack's door, and greetings and some introductions were exchanged on the sidewalk and door-steps.
He turned to mount the steps when the sudden pushing back of all the chairs on the sidewalk attracted his attention.
When the two had crossed the street St. George's eye rested upon a group on the sidewalk of the club.
St. George would be at his wits' end; Harry would be forced to choose between the sidewalk and Moorlands, and the old life would go on as before.
His Honor had already left the bench and was then slowly making his way toward where she stood, hugging the sidewalk trees the better to shade him from the increasing heat.
Shortly after, our party was increased by Vivian and Catron, and we filled the sidewalk from edge to edge, all talking in lively fashion except myself, Marcel being in his element.
They walked straight towards us, and I saw that unless either they or we turned aside, a most unpleasant collision would occur, as the sidewalk was narrow.
How Junior came to be sprawling on the sidewalk he never knew; only that his hand involuntarily opened in falling and he threw it out to catch himself, so he couldn't find the dime.
They laughed together, then Mickey sped to the sidewalk and ordered the car back.
Lubimoff sits down at a table, at a protruding angle of thesidewalk cafe which people nickname "The Promontory.
Lubimoff notices two Italian soldiers who are looking at him from the sidewalk around the "Camembert.
One sidewalk belongs to the Prince of Monaco, and the other across the street, to the French Republic.
The houses of Flowerton Road stand back and are separated from the sidewalk by diminutive gardens.
There was a little group of people about the prostrate figure of a man who lay upon the sidewalk in Gray Square, Bloomsbury.
Michael thinks no less of a backyard or a sidewalk than he does of a parlor.
It would be better we think to get him a bright vest and a derby hat and let him pretend to be a sidewalk speculator.
Presently the auto chugged off, leaving the disgruntled youth standing on the sidewalk following it with his eyes.
Jess, ignoring his proffered hand, leaped lightly to the sidewalk and, responding somewhat frigidly to his pleasantries, made her way into the bank.
She stepped out to the edge of the sidewalk and stopped him.
But there were mutterings, and from the sidewalk he heard a man curse him.
There wasn't any curbstone, and the sidewalk was a new one of gravel, and there would be a border of grass when the grass had time to grow.
David scrambled up on the sidewalk before he even looked, for he remembered to be careful.
The first sight that greeted his eyes, therefore, as he entered Galena was an arch bearing the words "General, the sidewalk is laid!
