The other canals intersect these and serve to connect one part of the town with another, as short streets cross wide highways and main thoroughfares in other places.
There are wide, bustling thoroughfares in Amsterdam, traversed by wagons and drays which could have no place in the city of gondolas and ancient palaces.
The quieterthoroughfares were quieter than usual, Deulin thought.
The side streets of St. Petersburg are quieter than the smaller thoroughfares of any other city in the world.
They were in a narrow street now--between the backs of high houses--and had left the life and traffic of frequented thoroughfares behind them.
The great mobs now thronging all the principal thoroughfares in London were already half-famished.
In those narrow thoroughfares they were powerless, and were therefore simply exterminated, until the streets ran with blood.
Not only are there huge barricades everywhere, but hundreds of houses and buildings have been put in a state of defence, especially the positions commanding the main thoroughfares leading to the bridges.
This report having got about, the people began building barricades in many of the principal thoroughfares north of the Thames.
From nearly all the principal thoroughfares south of the river, the paving-stones were being rapidly torn up by great gangs of men, and whenever the artillery brought up a fresh Maxim or field-gun the wildest demonstrations were made.
So that by two o’clock the populous neighbourhood bounded by the four great thoroughfares was rendered a fortress in itself.
Along Spring Bank, the Hessle road, the Anlaby road, and all the thoroughfares converging into Queen Victoria Square, came crowds of all classes eager to see for themselves and learn the truth of the startling rumour.
Many of the houses along these curious thoroughfares have no windows, the only light and air coming through the open door.
Not that I have become altogether and solely of the tribe: I still leave them whenever the whim seizes me, and repair to the great cities and thoroughfares of man.
When a war was to be conducted jointly by the three allied powers, proclamation was made by heralds in the public thoroughfares of the capital cities.
These faced the four chiefthoroughfares of the town, and their lower stories formed the portals of the gateways which gave entrance to the courtyard.
They abound especially in the immediate neighborhood of omnibus and cab stations, and very much in the thoroughfares and short-cuts most frequented by the middle and lower classes.
The interior area was divided by thoroughfares placed in a regular order.
Towns such as Diyârbekr, where not one Roman stone remains upon another, still betray a Roman origin in their crossed thoroughfares and quadruple gateways.
The area covered by the enclosure is so extensive that it resembles a town rather than a royal dwelling, and through this town run the crossed thoroughfares which were once the Via Principalis and the Via Praetoria.
An agreeable surprise, however, awaits me, for at the corner of one of the principal business thoroughfares a couple of American missionaries appear upon the scene.
Such lanterns were very common in the eighteenth century, and indeed in still more recent times in country places where they were very necessary before country roads were improved and rural thoroughfares lighted.
Through its principal thoroughfares a vaster flood of traffic is poured for several hours than is to be found in any other streets in the world.
Blind beggars especially affect Regent-street, Oxford-street, and Piccadilly, the most thronged thoroughfares in the West End.
These minor thoroughfares were tributary to the main avenues and gushed their rippling currents into them, as streams supply a river, until the principal streets flowed swiftly with the dirty water that choked their gutters.
The tavern he had just left was associated with an unforgotten presence; the stores, the windows, the thoroughfares themselves were fraught with retrospective suggestion of the strollers.
Charles Street, one of the chief thoroughfares of the city, leads to the north from the Washington Monument past the Union Station, near which, at the north end of the B.
Fine shops and restaurants line the Friedrichstrasse, while Viktoriastrasse is one of the manythoroughfares of the fashionable district, southwest.
Three of these thoroughfares skirt the river on the left, where the greater part of the city lies.
Meandering the streets for curiosity or in futile search of corporal sustenance, it was not until then that the hush of the thoroughfares struck one in its full intensity.
The town, its thoroughfares and houses were left alone for the nonce, while the guns were trained on the redoubts.
The streets themselves were moderate in width; even the main thoroughfares were little wider than the rest, and the public buildings within the walls were now merged in the general mass of houses.
Whether the smaller thoroughfares took the same lines can be determined only by excavation.
In the gloom I observed two little hammocks, between Colonel's Island and the Brunswick River, which seemed to be near Jointer's Creek, so I followed the tortuous thoroughfares until I was within a quarter of a mile of one of them.
From Matomkin Inlet the interior thoroughfareswere followed inside of Cedar Island, when darkness forced me to seek shelter with Captain William F.
From it I threaded the thoroughfares up to the mainland, reaching at dusk the "Emma Nickson Plantation.
Manchester is a city of nearly a million inhabitants, but its streets seemed almost like those of a country town as compared with the crowded thoroughfares of London.
It was the hour when balconies overhanging the narrow thoroughfares were crowded with women and children, and the doors beset with servants--the hour Byzantine gossips were abroad filling and unfilling their budgets.
As education progressed, signs were less needed, and when thoroughfares were named and sign-posts set up and houses numbered, the use of business signs vanished.
On these great, bustling, living thoroughfares a sad change has fallen.
From a very early date in the siege we have been accustomed to the spectacle of ungainly structures stretching across those thoroughfares which were exposed to the enemy's fire.
For many hours before the arrival of the troops at Kimberley crowds of interested spectators besieged the railway station and thronged the dusty thoroughfares of the town.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thoroughfares" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
