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...ate to the hall door; but blighted by an intolerable monotony of miles and miles of graceless, characterless brick houses, black iron railings, stony pavements, slaty roofs, and respectably ill dressed or disreputably poorly dressed people, quite accustomed to the place, and mostly plodding about somebody else?s work, which they would not do if they themselves could help i...

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...les of graceless, character- less brick houses, black iron railings, stony pavements, slaty roofs, and respectably ill dressed or disreputably poorly ...

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...nt. It was like in the olden days, when he and Sima and myself strolled down the white-hot pavements. She had an auburn mane she locked into a pony...

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... the reflexes of the day. Months blew away like empty bags skidding on the pavements. Evanescent and mutable to their ultimate end, their lives passe...

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...M from shelters, was disposed by being set outside to blow away on street pavements, and from rude remarks to turn here, to turn there with a nightma...

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...tamorphosed into rock-formations, whilst ashes from the torches are become pavements of white quartz pebbles. A bloodwood tree nearby marks their cere...

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...loneliness by coming here was to walk on the same spit and urine evaporating pavements within the swaths of mankind. Her ideas rambled on fervently. "...

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...apter XI ON A CORNER a glass fronted building shed a yellow glare upon the pavements. The open mouth of a saloon called seduc tively to passengers ... ...d chrysanthemums. Two or three theatres emptied a crowd upon the storm swept pavements. Men pulled their hats over their eyebrows and raised their col... ...onversation, their hearts still kindling from the glowings of the stage. The pavements became tossing seas of umbrellas. Men stepped forth to hail cab... ...fting her skirts and picking for her well shod feet the dryer spots upon the pavements. The restless doors of saloons, clashing to and fro, dis close...

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...n the chief thor- oughfares Irish washings flutter at the windows, and the pavements are encumbered with loiterers. These loiterers are a true charact... ...ills, innumerable spots of the bright element shine far and near along the pavements and upon the high facades. Moving lights of the railway pass and ... ...ill scarce desert him at the curling-pond. Edinburgh, with its long, steep pavements, is the proper home of sliders; many a happy urchin can slide the...

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...many lights sprang up at dusk; so many feet passed here and there upon the pavements; so many hours of sleep and cooler air of night succeeded: indif-...

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...shing of slates and chimney pots as they were dashed by the blast onto the pavements of the streets. “Come,” suddenly said the major, rising, “my stop...

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...thers, with serious attentive face, and ear bent down, much jostled on the pavements of the busy town, but afraid of losing a single incident of the e...

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...ck and stone, and over the domes of Chris- tian churches, built on the old pavements of heathen temples, and supported by the very pillars that once u... ...ome, the dead at- mosphere in which he had wasted so many months, the hard pavements, the smell of ruin and decaying generations, the chill palaces, t... ...ooked down into the excavated space, where a confusion of pillars, arches, pavements, and shattered blocks and shafts—the crumbs of various ruin dropp... ...y, but they affect me strangely. They have walked to and fro over the hard pavements of Rome, and through a hundred other rough ways of this life, whe...

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...ck and stone, and over the domes of Chris- tian churches, built on the old pavements of heathen temples, and supported by the very pillars that once u... ...ome, the dead at- mosphere in which he had wasted so many months, the hard pavements, the smell of ruin and decaying generations, the chill palaces, t... ...ooked down into the excavated space, where a confusion of pillars, arches, pavements, and shattered blocks and shafts—the crumbs of various ruin dropp... ...y, but they affect me strangely. They have walked to and fro over the hard pavements of Rome, and through a hundred other rough ways of this life, whe... ...lancholy girl wandered through those long galler- ies, and over the mosaic pavements of vast, solitary saloons, wondering what had become of the splen... ... so beautiful and costly are the marbles with which they are inlaid. Their pavements are of- ten a mosaic, of rare workmanship. Around their lofty cor...

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...nalism was visible on what was freshest from the sky. But when we left the pavements, and our muffled hoof tramps beat upon a desolate extent of count... ...what an inter est they had for me! From the street came the tumult of the pavements, pervading the whole house with a continual up roar, so broad an... ... by spaces of forty feet, rather than bedraggle her skirts over the sloppy pavements. Accordingly, in about the time requisite to pass through the arc...

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...d to keep going as he did along one inter- minable street after another on pavements that were gradually becoming blocked with snow. It was the though...

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...y long list. After din- ner they went out and slowly walked about the neighbor- ing streets. The early dusk of waning summer was coming on, but the he...

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...dred thou-sand white men and women gathered in one spot, walking upon real pavements in front of plate- glass-windowed shops, and talking something th...

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...memorial obelisk. Church bells heard. Church-goers passing along the outer pavements. WILLIE HOUGHTON. What’s the matter with you folks, as I’ve told ...

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...oud thread- bare cloaks; perambulating, mostly with closed lips, the broad pavements of Euston Square and the regions about St. Pancras new Church. Th... ... Their lodging was chiefly in Somers Town, as I understood: and those open pavements about St. Pancras Church were the general place of rendezvous. Th... ...towards fallacies for relief. These weary groups, pacing the Euston-Square pavements, had often said in their despair, “Were not death in battle bet- ...

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...attention to his weariness, though many a night his feet, blistered by the pavements of Paris, and his bruised shoulders, made him suffer horribly. Th... ... to her. In 1792 the feet of the deserted Cesar were well-toughened to the pavements, his shoulders to the bales, and his mind to what he called the “... ...t, which drew the handsomest cabriolet that rolled in those days along the pavements of Paris, and which was now pulled up sud- denly beside him. He w...