no-thoroughfare

But I remembered it, and in many a spare hour have tried to see my way through the no-thoroughfare it presented.

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-- From the noise and dust of the New Road, my family removed to a corner in Chelsea where the air of the neighboring river was so refreshing, and the quiet of the "no-thoroughfare" so full of repose, that, although our fortunes were at their worst, and my health almost of a piece with them, I felt for some weeks as if I could sit still for ever, embalmed in the silence.

International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 Various

Possibly the climax was still ahead; if so, the waters were at present heaped high on this side of ultimate disaster, and on the other side, leaving, between past and future, a dry no-thoroughfare.

Fran 1913

To what a blank no-thoroughfare he had brought himself.

The Devil's Garden W. B. Maxwell 1902

Why, then, was it that in the course of a few minutes more her voice suddenly broke into a wild, unearthly shriek, which ringing with terror burst the bounds of that dungeon-like room, and sank, a barbed shaft, into the breasts of those awaiting the result of her doubtful adventure, at either end of this dread no-thoroughfare.

Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Detective Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897

Circle, the most expensive, if not the most aristocratic, no-thoroughfare of the capital city.

The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush Francis Lynde 1893

But I remembered it, and in many a spare hour have tried to see my way through the no-thoroughfare it presented.

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Why then, was it that in the course of a few minutes more her voice suddenly broke into a wild, unearthly shriek, which ringing with terror burst the bounds of that dungeon-like room, and sank, a barbed shaft, into the breasts of those awaiting the result of her doubtful adventure, at either end of this dread no-thoroughfare.

The Golden Slipper : and other problems for Violet Strange Anna Katharine Green 1890

Its site was in a no-thoroughfare, and, perhaps by design, perhaps by accident, a barricade had been erected before it; not a very high barricade, but a wall or series of stumbling-blocks made up of useless litter.

The Heather-Moon 1889