streets

• But the streets will be as full as ever of poilus en permission_, walking with their sweethearts, in spite of the hateful things One makes one's adieux early in war times; but the moonlight was so wonderful on that Taube-ridden night that Brian said he felt it like a cool silver shower on his eyelids. —  Everyman's Land
• The incessant noise of the streets was a source of great discomfort to one who had been so long accustomed to the silence of the country; and he positively refused to fashion himself to the late hours of London. —  Story-Lives of Great Musicians
• Every third man you meet on the streets is a minister of the Gospel, and the others are all teachers in the Sunday school. —  Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective
• All the streets were alive with people; and streams of vehicles of all sorts were pouring in from the four quarters of the compass and discharging their cargoes on the public squares to a loud buzzing accompaniment of vigorous talk--much in the way that the ark people, thankful to get ashore again, must have come buzzing out on Ararat I am sorry to say that the handling of a small part of this crowd by the railway people, and of the whole of it by the local management, was deplorably bad. —  The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals
• He told Morgan that he might look to have great trouble in winning the city, for the streets were all dug about with trenches and mounted with heavy brass guns. —  On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.

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