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  • Thoroughfares in the Haitian capital are seldom dependable and usually jammed with rickety tap-taps the colorfully painted passenger buses used by locals, notorious for their ill-maintained brakes or barricaded with burning tires planted by political activists or entrepreneurial protesters who will agitate against anything for a meal or a weapon or a few gourdes.

    Angels of a Lower Flight Susie Scott Krabacher 2007

  • Thoroughfares in the Haitian capital are seldom dependable and usually jammed with rickety tap-taps the colorfully painted passenger buses used by locals, notorious for their ill-maintained brakes or barricaded with burning tires planted by political activists or entrepreneurial protesters who will agitate against anything for a meal or a weapon or a few gourdes.

    Angels of a Lower Flight Susie Scott Krabacher 2007

  • Thoroughfares in the Haitian capital are seldom dependable and usually jammed with rickety tap-taps the colorfully painted passenger buses used by locals, notorious for their ill-maintained brakes or barricaded with burning tires planted by political activists or entrepreneurial protesters who will agitate against anything for a meal or a weapon or a few gourdes.

    Angels of a Lower Flight Susie Scott Krabacher 2007

  • It was not exactly in a court, and it was not exactly in a yard; but it was in the dullest of No – Thoroughfares, rendered anxious and haggard by distant double knocks.

    Dombey and Son 2007

  • No Thoroughfares at night, glide into them by means of dark courts, tempt the schoolmaster to follow, turn suddenly, and catch him before he can retreat.

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • Veneering loses his way in the usual No Thoroughfares of speech, and

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • Thoroughfares that give forth a glad hum; wheels singing, too; whips that crack in sprightly arpeggios.

    Half A Chance Frederic S. Isham

  • Thoroughfares there will of course be; but there is a reason for this wide, open space.

    Commentary on Revelation 1837-1913 1909

  • When he opened up, he threw the Key in the River and arranged to have the Bodies taken out through the Alley so as not to impede Traffic in the Main Thoroughfares.

    Knocking the Neighbors George Ade 1905

  • Frances would load the hateful City Chap into the high Cart and exhibit him up and down all the Residence Thoroughfares.

    Ade's Fables George Ade 1905

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