The soldiers yield the path to the dusty hearse and unpretending train, and the children quit their ranks and cluster on the sidewalks with timorous and instinctive curiosity.
The two or three people visible on the sidewalks have an aspect of endurance, a blue-nosed, frosty fortitude, which is evidently assumed in anticipation of a comfortless and blustering day.
As if there were magic in the sound, the sidewalks of the street, both up and down along, are immediately thronged with two long lines of people, all converging hitherward and streaming into the church.
The wet sidewalks gleam with a broad sheet of red light.
Stock in them was sold on the sidewalks by bally-hoo men with megaphone voices.
En route thither they had to elbow their way through a crowd that filled the sidewalks as if on a fair day.
The sidewalks were laid in tessellated work of all the hues of the solar spectrum.
He noticed that the streets and sidewalks were perfectly clean, and that an air of care, attention, and good order seemed to prevail.
Like the lower, the upper streets and sidewalks were of glass, which was molded into huge blocks, these resting on steel girders running across and down the streets.
The sidewalkswere light gray, and the street light steel-color.
Wagons from the outlying towns were coming into the city, shops were being opened, and sidewalks and front steps were being washed and swept.
Front steps were being swept down, front doors dusted, parlor shades drawn up, and sidewalks cleaned.
Frozen pools and rivulets are standing on the sidewalks and streets, and as the water comes out of the hose it is turned to frozen spray.
They had gradually left behind them the pleasant part of the city where the bake-shop was situated, and had reached a part where the streets and sidewalks were narrower and the houses smaller and closer together.
These stairways descend from the ancient Via Latina, which has been excavated for some distance, and is found with wide sidewalks of stone (lava) similar to the sidewalks in Pompeii.
Crowding the sidewalks were thousands of householders attempting to drag some of their effects to places of safety.
And because ships had come there for a great many years and all the sailors and all the captains and all the men who had business with the ships had to go on that narrow road, the flagstones that made the sidewalks were much worn.
And because ships had come there for a great many years, and all the sailors and all the captains and all the men who had business with the ships had to go on that narrow road, the flagstones that made the sidewalks were much worn.
Farther up is a church of another sort, where Europeans of more or less noble blood marry American daughters of acknowledged solvency, while the crowd covers the sidewalks and neighboring house-steps.
Fewer people are left on the sidewalks now--those that are look at their watches.
Big dry-goods stores and small millinery shops; general stores and department stores, and the places where the sidewalks are crowded with what is known to the trade as "Louis Fourteenth Street furniture.
The sawdust streets and high board sidewalks of the lumber town were filled to the brim with people.
The city was bathed in warm sunshine, and the well-dressed men and women who crowded the sidewalks made the two immigrants think that it was a festival day.
The sun was warm, and in the narrow plots between the wooden sidewalks and the curb, the grass was green.
The sidewalks were crowded, and, as far as one could see, umbrellas balanced in the glistening mist.
The sidewalks were thronged with pedestrians, young men whose lives had no other diversion than to parade in their best clothes or stand on dusty down-town corners, smoke cigars and watch the girls that tilted past.
Silently they pressed upon the sidewalks and thronged the gardens by the river.
By the time the guard from the Tower reached Westminster, vast multitudes lined the sidewalks and formed so dense a mass in the square in front of the gates that progress was well-nigh impossible.
United States flags were hung over the sidewalks to force the women to walk under them, and in some instances, when they refused to do so and went out into the street, efforts were made to force them to pass under the flag.
Several hundred negroes would march up and down the roads and streets, and amuse themselves by boasts, threats, and abuse of whites, and by shoving whites off the sidewalks or out of the road.
They are alleys in width and irregularity, paved with cobblestones which seem to have been selected for their angles, and with intermittent sidewalks consisting of narrow, carelessly joined flagstones.
The fine large yellow bricks, furnished by the local clay-beds, of which the buildings and sidewalks were made, were dazzling with heat.
But apart from the fact that they do walk on the narrow sidewalks in the Corso, I have noticed that in the side-streets, even where there is a foot-walk, nobody takes advantage of it at night.
Clerks began to bring samples of goods in off the sidewalks and lock the doors of stores.
When he got to Main Street clerks were sweeping the sidewalks before the stores.
The sidewalks break with wooden bars on which various things are suspended, and in the lower streets these bars are appropriated for drying the washwomen's clothes.
Hartford he found a place of 7,000 inhabitants, "completely but irregularly built, the streets crooked and dirty, with sidewalks but no pavements.
Walking half drunk in the darkness along the sidewalks of Caxton on the evening of the quarrel the man became inspired.
Mud lay soft and deep in the streets and among the little pools of water on the sidewalkswere dry spots from which steam arose.
The crowd on thesidewalks stirred; prolonged shouts went up; and now all those who were seated on the porch arose at one motion and came forward.
They are jostled from the sidewalks by dusky guards, marching four abreast.
We had, indeed, our own little grudge against the friars, for they were the only men of the city who forced us off the narrow sidewalks out into the rough and dirty road.
The strong, stolid figure, the fine old face traced with the lineage of gentility, the cane that pounded down the sidewalks as he went where he willed.
The northern sidewalks of Pennsylvania Avenue between the Indian Queen Hotel and the Capitol gate, was lined with faro banks, where good suppers were served and well-supplied sideboards were free to all comers.
The broad sidewalks of Pennsylvania Avenue were again packed as the procession returned from the Capitol.
Pennsylvania Avenue presented an animated appearance, the gay and varied dresses of the ladies at the windows and on the sidewalks forming a kaleidoscopic framework for the column of citizen soldiers.
Jack forgot the cheers and the singing and the enthusiastic throngs that filled the sidewalks and almost surrounded the carriage, and closing his eyes, leaned back and gave himself over to thought.
The crowd about the carriage was frantically struggling toward the sidewalks and above its voice sounded the pounding of hoofs on the hard road.
The sidewalks and the streets swarmed with noisy dealers in every sort of second-hand merchandise--vegetables that had seen a better day, fish in shoals.
As one approaches it from the harbor it gives a promise which its rather shabby streets, decaying houses, and steep plank sidewalks do not keep.
Often have I seen sidewalks spattered with blood, and a common sight is that of a couple of policemen leading away a gory victim or culprit.
Perhaps these two-foot sidewalks account in part for the innate courtesy of the Latin mind.
Sidewalks exist only as balconies for individual houses, and vary in height at the caprice of the builder, making the middle of the street the only convenient highway for the passers-by.
Along the sidewalks and in the doorsteps the evening hours are turned into neighborhood debating societies and wrangling clubs, and between the arguments and disputes, and the always nearby street meeting, there is never a dull moment.
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