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From the main deck, in the alley-way between the 'midship-house and the rail, came the voices of

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They will follow up such and such a man or woman for whole days; they will do sentry duty for hours at a time on the corners of the streets, under alley-way doors at night, in cold and rain; they will bribe errand-porters, they will make the drivers of hackney-coaches and lackeys tipsy, buy a waiting-maid, suborn a porter.

Les Miserables 2008

We snooped, first from a distance and then closer on our afternoon neighborhood stroll, and the quarry seems to be a small alley-way that ducks off between two houses.

Another man done gone jhetley 2008

PATRON, bland as ever, would stop me as I went down the alley-way past the bar.

Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

We went at five to an alley-way behind some offices, but there was already a queue of thirty or forty men waiting, and after two hours we were told that there was no work for us.

Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

One went down an area and through an alley-way into a deep, stifling cellar, ten feet square.

Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

Every Monday morning, the dealer in second-hand goods, who lived under the alley-way, spread out his wares on the sidewalk.

A Simple Soul 2003

Village number three hove in sight high up on a mountain side soon after, but it was getting dark and the water worse, and the hill-sides growing higher and higher into nobly shaped mountains, forming, with their forest-graced steep sides, a ravine that, in the gathering gloom, looked like an alley-way made of iron, for the foaming Ogowe.

Travels in West Africa 2003

The guard lowered his spear threateningly, opening his mouth to shout an alarm that would bring spearmen swarming out of the guard-rooms at either end of the alley-way.

The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

We were seated on a bench near the spot where the children were playing — just opposite the point in the alley-way before the Casino where the carriages drew up in order to set down their occupants.

The Gambler 2003