Grape and canister cleared the streets in the twinkling of an eye.
Turned again into the streets the Hessians were driven headlong through the town into an open plain beyond it.
In due time, the Albatross glided through the Golden Gate, and our friends found themselves in San Francisco, whose streets all had trod years before.
Dan Mordaunt and his mother live in a poor tenement, and the lad is pluckily trying to make ends meet by selling papers in the streets of New York.
The trio of prisoners were marched through the now deserted streets to the lockup, where Chief Wallis would see to it that there was no chance for a getaway.
The various trades are grouped there as further west, and the streets are named after them.
In no part of Spain could one so readily imagine one's self in Morocco; indeed, it is hard to realize that one is not there till the new European streets are reached.
The streetsof the original settlement are just those of Mequinez on a small scale.
In the streets the absence of the better-class natives is most noticeable; one sees at once that Tripoli is not an aristocratic town like Fez, Tetuan, or Rabat.
It is remarkable, however, how much less conspicuous they are in the groups about the streets than in Morocco, notwithstanding that their dress is quite as distinctive as there, though different.
The summary punishment inflicted a few years ago on the murderer of an Englishman in the streets of Fez was, like everything else, persistently misinterpreted through the country.
All around are the still tortuous streets of a Moorish town, though the roofs of the houses are tiled in ridges of Moorish pattern, as those of Tangier were when occupied by the English two hundred years ago, and as those of El K'sar are now.
The country round is flat, the streets are on the whole fairly regular, and wider than the average in this part of the world.
His dress is barbarous, an ancient and badly fitting pair of trousers, and stockingless feet in untidy boots, on the heels of which he stamps along the streets with a most unpleasant noise.
The student class of Fez, drawn from all sections of the population of Morocco, actually makes a boast of the pale and pasty complexions attained by life amid the shaded cloisters and covered streets of the intellectual capital.
Its tortuousstreets and small houses, however, testify as to its origin, and its Moorish castle still appears to guard the narrow ascent by which alone it can be reached from the land, for it crowns a river-girt rock.
On walking the crooked streets of the part which formed the town of four centuries ago, on every hand the names are Moorish.
Some ten leagues further on, at Cullar de Baza is another Moorish ruin, and the next of note, a fine specimen, is fifteen leagues away at Lorca, whose streets are in the genuine intricate style.
As we marched along the streets we would see a Frenchwoman approaching us.
From Bedminster to Ratcliffgate, along the streets to the High Cross of Bristol: at the High Cross they are laid hold of by the authorities: turn out to be James Nayler and Company.
He was next sent to Bristol, and publicly whipped through the principal streets of that city; and again brought back to the Bridewell prison, where he remained about two years, shut out from all intercourse with his fellow-beings.
For another strong-voiced Adams in the city's streetsto cry, "Up for God and Massachusetts!
I long at times to hear a voice crying through the streets like that of one of the old prophets proclaiming the great first truth,--that the Lord alone is God.
They found houses deserted and streets strewn with household stuffs, abandoned in the hurry of escape.
The hills have bonfires; in our streets Flags flout us in our faces; The newsboys, peddling off their sheets, Are hoarse with our disgraces.
Guilt and remorse would make the golden streets of Paradise intolerable as the burning marl of the infernal abodes; while purity and innocence would transform hell itself into heaven.
Old Hampton, had her fields a tongue, And Salem's streets could tell their story, Of fainting woman dragged along, Gashed by the whip accursed and gory!
The streets are then blossoming like a peripatetic flower-garden; as if the tulips and lilies and roses of my friend W.
An atmosphere of reverend quiet seemed to hang over it as I walked through its shaded streets,--streets where there is never bustle, and which appear to be always remembering the great men who have walked in them.
A week or two before the streets had resounded with the Marseillaise and echoed with the fierce cry, "A Berlin!
The building is extensive; the streets of the city at that time running under it here and there in tunnels.
It is a beautiful town among low mountains green to the summit, and in the streets not a few lovely homes of the Virginia colonial type, draped with ivy and wisteria.
After his death, there took place in the streets of St. Louis an imposing military funeral.
Probably it was because he was so thoroughly a recluse that I recall seeing Hawthorne only once, although he was in the village in whose streets I was constantly passing.
As I went home that night, through the streets of London, my mind and heart were full.
Though slight, he was vigorous and the erect figure striding at a rapid pace could be encountered any day in all weathers, not only on the streets but in the fields and woods.
The lovely little town, whose streets for nearly six hundred years have throbbed with the often boisterous life of the student population, is at its best in the spring and early summer.
After roving the streets of German cities, I packed a knapsack and set out upon the country-roads.
So very soon the streets were full of people running to the mines with babies, blankets, bread, and bedding.
Three or four large houses were on fire--two of them were in the market-place--and the streets were illuminated by the flames.
All the streets I saw had their houses broken down.
For the great proportion of the men who had started with the column had sneaked off into the by-streets for the purpose of plundering--a business which was already going on merrily.
Women waiting in the streets for their rations would fall from exhaustion; others were mangled by shells.
But there were in side streets many of the roughest, the most cowardly and cruel ruffians of the worst parts of Paris.
Yet after every war how many one-armed and one-legged soldiers or sailors are pitifully begging along our streets and roads!
The main streets had a narrow opening left in the centre guarded by volunteers, who had orders to let none pass without a signed permit.
They gossiped in the streets with French gaiety and unconcern, while the bullets sang overhead pretty freely.
A German is used to drink plenty of beer, and can carry it without ill effects; but when Fritz took to drinking rum, schnapps, or arrack, he began to reel about the village streets and look rather disreputable.
The streets were barricaded, and the houses protected by sand-bags.
Avenge the patriotic gore That flecks the streets of Baltimore And be the battle queen of yore-- Maryland!
At the corner of Centre and Concord Streets they came upon Miss Darcy, a charming girl to whom Lee had taken a strong fancy.
In Chicago, for the most part, the blacks lived crowded into a few streets on the South Side.
The public square was bare and grassless, and out of it ran streets of frame houses, long straight streetsthat finally became country roads running away into the flat prairie country.
When her father had regained control of the frightened beast they were in the streets of the town and his diffident silent nature had reasserted itself.
To go into such streets and to live her life among strangers would be like coming out of a waterless desert and into a cool forest carpeted with tender young grass.
Her mother did not permit her to run bare footed through the streets but when she got into the orchard she took her shoes off.
At the foot of the hill on which it stood the streets of the town began, and as she sat on the rock she could hear faint shouts and cries coming out of Wilmott Street.
She walked through the crowded streets and the buildings were ugly.
They invited her to dinner and to the theatre, but nothing would induce her to walk in the streets with a man.
I said that life was life, that men in streets and cities might build temples to their souls.
It was like smoke lying in the streets of a factory town.
The streets were lined with small unpainted frame houses and dirty faced children ran screaming in the dusty roadway.
Instead he went through a gate into the road and along the suburban streets until he got into the open country.
Before her mind's eye floated a vision of long streets filled with thousands of people all strangers to herself.
I would run through the streetssaying it over and over.
The streets are dark and silent, and you come back more miserable than you started.
The roar from the streets sounded dull and muffled, but the banging of a door, or the falling of a chair within the building, made such a noise, that the spiders ran into their holes for fright.
Persons playing or betting in the streets with coins or cards are now made amenable to the 5th George IV.
These circumstances leave much of the town as it was in Burns's time, though there are also evidences of modern extension and improvement, in new streets and public buildings, especially of a county jail lying between the town and the shore.
The main streets are all evidently new; and on advancing into the great street which traverses almost the whole length of the city, Union-street, a mile in length and seventy feet wide, you are struck with a pleasant surprise.
In traversing the streets of Mauchline, it was impossible to avoid not only recalling all the witty jollity of Burns here, but his troubles that wellnigh drove him from the land.
Driven from such a purgatory even for want of a character, Goldsmith, with The Deserted Village and The Vicar of Wakefield in his hand, was once more wandering the streets of London amid a thousand other equally destitute wretches.
The same Father O'Leary once met in the streets a friend, a witty Protestant clergyman with whom he had many an encounter of wit and repartee.
Thus in a Quaker's diary of 1752:--'There was a great sight of people passed through the streets of Limerick.
On landing, the attention is drawn to the vast number of small stalls and shops with which the streets are lined on each side, and to the crowds of people passing to and fro, all intent upon their several occupations.
Where the streets cross them, there are substantial stone bridges, which are generally of no more than one arch, so as not to impede the navigation.
Whether she was actually on the streets I do not know, but I rather think that she eked out a small allowance that she had from her husband by that means of livelihood.
In one's own home it is as if little, innate sympathies draw one to particular chairs that seem to enfold one in an embrace, or take one along particular streets that seem friendly when others may be hostile.
At twelve o'clock at night they reached the city and were driven through the silent streets to a vacant lot where all the circus bands were to meet.
He had gone through many streets and turned many corners, when he found himself opposite a beautiful, green, cool-looking park.
And the long rattle through dirty and dirtier streets in a four-wheel cab with the rest of her luggage on top.
Once indeed when walking with John through the winding streets of the African-Oriental city she had seen him out riding with Bazzard, the Vice-Consul.
Because it was very quiet and very dark it reminded him more of his beloved African jungle than did the noisy and garish streets surrounding it.
In this way Nauvoo became a great receptacle for stolen goods, and the river banks up and down the stream concealed many more, the takers of which walked boldly through the streets of the Mormon city.
He was buriod in a little plot on one of the main streets of Salt Lake City, not far from his place of residence.
The streets were practically deserted, and the few Mormons who remained were busy with their preparations to cross the river.
An English visitor to the place in 1843 wrote "The city is of great dimensions, laid out in beautiful order; the streets are wide and cross each other at right angles, which will add greatly to its order and magnificence when finished.
The Mormons, lessened in number by the many departures, and with their goods mostly packed for moving, were in no situation to repel an attack; and they began hurrying to the ferry until the streets were blocked with teams.
Perhaps it is this total absence of every thing elegant in the shape of man from the public streets and walks of the Athens, that has given so singular a twist to the minds and manners of the Athenian fair.
Nothing strikes a stranger more than the difference between the business streets and business men of the Athens, and the corresponding streets and men of London, or even of Glasgow.
Outside, the ten-storied houses of the High Street were tapestried with human faces; and to prevent disturbance, all the cross-streets were filled by cavalry.
It was a novelty to me: the illumination was so general, the streets were so thronged, and the people were so orderly.
At length rumours reached the palace of the strange scenes which were daily taking place in the streets of the capital, and Li Shih-ming sent officers to command the two strange priests to appear in his presence.
No sooner had Chung's messenger caught sight of this than, with terror in his eyes, he fled along the streets to tell his master the dreadful news.
The streets are narrow, and the houses are crowded close up to each other.
So it came to pass that while men's minds were excited about the proposed celebration for the dead, two priests suddenly appeared in the streets of the capital.
Just after reading its remarks, I was driving down the streets of the great industrial centre I had come to see--a town which the murderers of the night before would have been glad indeed to hit.
You walk through avenues of bacon, through streets of biscuits and jam.
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