back-streets

Going underground in the dangerous back-streets Raf is hunting a man and a past that he knows he will not survive for a second time.

Sci-Fi Book Releases for September (UK) Mark 2008

Through the joy of Hasidism, his biographer believes, he "transformed the cramped, dull back-streets of his childhood" into a color-saturated "vision of beauty and harmony on canvas."

From Shtetl to Château Dorment, Richard 2009

A place where the children can breathe clean air, and women have a few conveniences to save them from drudgery, and a man has a bit of garden to dig in, must be better than the stinking back-streets of Leeds and Sheffield.

The Road to Wigan Pier 2004

Presently he lights up an army cigarette, and stays still then for a long while, as the fog moves white through the riverbank houses, and up above the warplanes go droning somewhere invisible, and the dogs run barking in the back-streets.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

The first thing that impressed him was the abandonment that thrust itself upon him in the more crowded of these courts and alley-ways and back-streets, the despairing abandonment there of the decencies of living.

The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller

Take a bolus and am walked for half an hour or so up and down some back-streets.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 20, 1891 Various

And while your trap runs smoothly and noiselessly, while the leather is fresh and the paint unscratched, do not worry yourself with visions of the day when it will rattle and creak, and when you will make it wait for you at the corner of back-streets when you drive into town.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various

Perhaps it will be well to visit one of these at once, taking the tram direct from the magnificent Gare de l'Est (no lesser epithet is just) to the Place Verte, which may be considered the real centre of the city; and making our way thence by a network of quieter back-streets to the Musee Plantin -

Beautiful Europe: Belgium Joseph Ernest Morris

How long, he asked them, were Guys to be chivied, and harried, and moved along into back-streets by the brutal minions of a corrupt middle-class?

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 5, 1892 Various

They don't care twopence about real political questions in the back-streets.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 6, 1891 Various