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Sentences ending with pavement

There the difficulty was to find a footing on the disjointed pavement. [10]
The triumphal arch under her, and the garlands which decorated the wooden structure, had caught her before she touched the pavement. [10]
She was handsome, too, when he came to look, very handsome when he came to look again,--endowed with that city beauty which is like the beauty of wall-fruit, something finer in certain respects than can be reared off the pavement. [6]
They carried her to one old nook, where she had many and many a time sat musing, and laid their burden softly on the pavement. [12]
It is pleasant to note that the city of Blathersville is endeavoring to contract with some New York gentlemen to pave its well-nigh impassable streets with the Nicholson pavement. [5]
For the first time she observed the shabby colors on the walls, the damage the pillars had sustained in the course of years, and the loose slabs in the pavement. [10]
Then one of the runaways knocked down Papias, and she could bear no more; her senses deserted her, her knees failed under her, she lost consciousness, and with a dull groan she fell on the dusty pavement. [10]
The roofs of the houses, turned into gardens and promenades, made of the huge superficial city one broken irregular pavement. [11]
Reporters were watching the closed house from the opposite pavement. [4]
And across the street was bliss Virginia Carvel, tapping her foot on the pavement. [9]

Sentences containing pavement two or more times

It is as large as a church; its pavement is rich enough for the pavement of a King's palace; its great dome is gorgeous with frescoes; its walls are made of--what? [5]

More example sentences with the word pavement in them

Even a stone with a whitish band crossing it, belonging to the pavement of the back-yard, insisted on becoming one of the talismans of memory. [6]
A spacious yard well above the pavement surrounds it, sustained by a wall of dressed stones, capped by an iron fence. [9]
The asphalt pavement was not laid in Paris. [6]
The pavement, here, was made of heavy blocks of stone. [5]
The brick pavement was lumpy from much travel and near as dirty as the street. [9]
The man who was attacked flung him on the pavement in the struggle. [10]
He rose, and walked to the far end of the tiled pavement of the pergola, and stood for a moment looking out over the sea. [9]
Heavy soles tramped upon the pavement, and amid the voices that now mingled with those she had formerly heard, she fancied she distinguished Maria's and Barbara's. [10]
The ploughman turns up an old Saxon's bones, and beneath them is a tessellated pavement of the time of the Caesars. [6]
His keen eyes, too, failed, for the objects he tried to see blended with the dust of the road, the horizon reeled up and down before his eyes, and he felt as though the hard pavement had turned to a yielding bog under his feet. [10]
Rather than return to her benefactress she would have joined the roofless crew who passed the night on the hard marble pavement of the forecourts of the temple. [10]
And yet here they were on the pavement at his very side. [9]
And most of them are fine-looking fellows, good figures in elegantly fitting and tasteful uniforms; but they do like to show their handsome forms and hear their sword-scabbards rattle on the pavement as they stride by. [4]
The initiated bowed their heads till they touched the pavement, and the priests and scholars bent their faces down to the earth, when they beheld their haughty master so filled with humility and devotion. [10]
The body-guards flung their halberds on the pavement, and there were plenty of tears and lamentations. [10]
On account of the tindery condition of the woods we made our fire on the natural pavement, and selected a smooth place for our bed near by on the flat rock, with a pool of limpid water at the foot. [4]
She halted on the pavement, her eyes raised, heedless of passers-by, feeling within her a throb of the longing that could be so oddly and unexpectedly aroused. [9]
As he reached the pavement, he saw people gathering in front of the wide entrance of the Court House opposite, and perched on the copings. [9]
A crowd blocked the pavement, and hustled and shoved at the doors,--roughs, and soldiers off duty, and ladies and gentlemen whom the Judge and Stephen knew, and some of whom they spoke to. [9]
Once safely on the pavement outside, she realized that the apartment was not only unfinished, but unfurnished, and had neither steam heat nor elevator. [8]
The gate of the palisade was now opened, and the captain of the guards allowed the prisoners to lie down on the glowing pavement within. [10]
The linden and the neighbouring houses cast dark, sharply outlined shadows upon the light pavement, and from the convent garden the song of the nightingale echoed down the quiet moonlit street. [10]
Within, they crossed the marble pavement, the Honourable Dave handed her into an elevator, and when it stopped she followed him as in a dream to an oak-panelled door marked with a legend she did not read. [9]
The entombment of the magnificent coffin of Frau Maria Ortlieb under the pavement of the family chapel was over. [10]
But now, as the horses approached the curb, their restive feet clattering on the hard pavement, in the darkened interior of the church she saw faces turned, and entering worshippers pausing in the doorway. [9]
He had directed the Emperor's attention to the mosaic pavement in the steward's room, and had shamelessly accused Keraunus of having offered to sell him a work that belonged to the palace, contrasting his conduct with his own rectitude. [10]
In front of the Banner office a group blocked the pavement staring up at the news bulletin, which she paused to read. [9]
Stephen paused under the awning, of which there were many shading the brick pavement, to regard the straggling line of stores and houses which surrounded and did homage to the yellow pile. [9]
I have to sweep the pavement of the forecourt. [10]
Breakfast in Fillmore Street, never a lively meal, was more dismal than usual that morning, eaten to the accompaniment of slopping water from the roofs on the pavement of the passage. [9]
The water was standing between the smooth red tiles of the pavement. [10]
Here and there somebody was kneeling on the pavement, unheeding the passing throng. [4]
Yet it was so crowded with historical interest, that if all the pages that have been written about it were spread upon its surface, they would flag it from horizon to horizon like a pavement. [5]
At last the sleigh bore to the right, drew up at an entrance, and Rostov saw overhead the old familiar cornice with a bit of plaster broken off, the porch, and the post by the side of the pavement. [2]
The wheels seem scarcely to touch the smooth flags of the Alexandrian pavement. [10]
All the region round about, and up and down the river-road, was a dense wilderness of humanity hidden under an unbroken pavement of carriage tops and umbrellas. [5]
One dealer had preempted a large space on the pavement, where he had spread out an assortment of bits of old iron, nails, pieces of steel traps, and various fragments which might be useful to the peasants. [4]
I can see Powell Street, where Nancy lived, at four o'clock on a mild and cloudy December afternoon, the decorous, retiring houses, Nancy on one side of the pavement by the iron fences and I on the other by the tree boxes. [9]
How often I plunged into ditches filled with snow and slid down short descents I don't know; but as I write these lines I can vividly remember the relief with which I at last trod the pavement of the little town. [10]
Horses stamping on pavement to get off flies. [6]
Look how the painted walls and columns gleam in the light, and what marvellous figures the shadows of the obelisks and sphinxes throw on the smooth yellow pavement! [10]
For now the over-tense nerves are all unstraining themselves, and a buzz, like that which comes over one who stops after being long jolted upon an uneasy pavement, makes the whole frame alive with a luxurious languid sense of all its inmost fibres. [6]
On the pavement outside the house, Krool staggered, stumbled, and fell down; but he slowly gathered himself up, and turned to the doorway, where Byng stood panting with the sjambok in his hand. [11]
Still, there was one late shop at no great distance which sent forth a ruddy glare upon the pavement even yet, and looked bright and companionable. [12]
But he walked on, in the direction he had taken, till he found himself in Union Square, on the pavement in front of Brentano's. [8]
He stopped presently on the pavement. [11]
He was standing on the pavement, when an awkward express employee, carrying a brick weighing a hundred pounds, stumbled and let it fall on the bummer's foot. [5]
The young fellow on the box jumped down to hold the horses and Anatole and Dolokhov went along the pavement. [2]
On a portion of this pavement, raised above the rest, stood the priests, some wearing ostrich-feathers on their bald and shining heads; others panther-skins over their white-robed shoulders. [10]
But the feature of the place is a short column that rises from the middle of the marble pavement of the chapel, and marks the exact centre of the earth. [5]
The mighty roar of London was round them, like the sound of an unseen ocean, yet every footfall on the pavement below might be heard distinctly, in that unfrequented street. [14]
But you are now denying respect to a lady--" "From that, too, my heart is as far removed as the starry sky above our heads from the wretched pavement of this square," Malfalconnet interrupted. [10]
But she could not achieve the mental picture of herself as Ditmar's wife--especially when, later in the evening, she walked up Warren Street and stood gazing at his house from the opposite pavement. [9]
There are few more pathetic events recorded in history than this weeping, helpless, praying crowd, holding their lighted candles and kneeling on the pavement beneath the prison walls of the old fortress. [5]
For at that moment they drew up at a carpet stretched across the pavement. [9]
But she was mistaken; for, looking down upon the pavement, she perceived that this, too, swam with blood, and that the ground was covered with corpses. [10]
Opposite the Clarendon Mill on the corner of East Street was a provision store with stands of fruit and vegetables encroaching on the pavement. [9]
The man owes me a service, for my father commissioned him and his assistants to execute the mosaic pavement in the new arcade he was having built in the capitol; and subsequently, when the envy of rival artists threatened his life, my father saved him. [10]
These houses, solid marble palaces though they be, are in many cases of a dull pinkish color, outside, and from pavement to eaves are pictured with Genoese battle scenes, with monstrous Jupiters and Cupids, and with familiar illustrations from Grecian mythology. [5]
Within the church, long rows of fluted columns, like huge monuments, divided the building into broad aisles, and on the figured pavement fell many a soft blush from the painted windows above. [5]
These had very little winking windows, and low-arched doors, and, in some of the narrower ways, quite overhung the pavement. [12]
But, in a little time, this closed, the light was extinguished, and all was gloomy and quiet, except when some stray footsteps sounded on the pavement, or a neighbour, out later than his wont, knocked lustily at his house-door to rouse the sleeping inmates. [12]
Suddenly the color left her face, she turned deadly pale, and the golden sistrum fell on to the stone pavement with a clang, close to Bartja's feet. [10]
On the pavement lay wounded men groaning with pain; the street of the Caesareum was lined with a double row of footsoldiers of Papias no sign! [10]
Torches, pitch-pans and lamps made the square of St. Mark's as bright as day, and the maskers crowded upon its smooth pavement as if it were the floor of an immense ball-room. [10]
The wine offered in libations to the gods already lay in broad pools upon the hard pavement of the hall, the music and singing were drowned in shouts the feast had become an orgy. [10]
Presently the pavement in front of the house which sheltered them rang again with the tramp of the horse, till it died away at last in the direction of Hadrian's gate. [10]
She had stayed in Frederick through the Rebel inroad, and kept the star-spangled banner where it would be safe, to unroll it as the last Rebel hoofs clattered off from the pavement of the town. [6]
But just as I was taking leave the pavement echoed with the noise of hoofs and the rattle of wheels. [10]
Not until the hoofs of her gray horse rang upon the pavement did Barbara awake from the dream of longing which had held her captive. [10]
The Regent signed her to a corner of the room, and she squatted down on the pavement. [10]
She had made her sister's dress look as nice as her own, and had laid it carefully on the divan near the mosaic pavement. [10]
Yesterday we put her poor, wasted, mortal frame quietly under the church pavement. [14]
They ran after her calling out impudently, 'dot, and go one,' and tried ruthlessly to snatch at the loosely-tied sandal on her injured foot, which tapped the pavement at every step. [10]
What right had he to pull down that flag, to die on the pavement before that house? [9]
A score of hands caught them, coats smothered Dennis's burning clothes, and the man he had rescued was carried across the street and laid upon the pavement. [11]
In the pillared hall beyond the vestibule bearded soldiers were sitting on benches or squatting in groups on the ground, drinking noisily and singing, or laughing and squabbling as they threw the dice on the costly mosaic pavement. [10]
His one desire had been to get away, out of hearing, and he pressed forward over the tiled pavement until he stumbled against a stone balustrade that guarded a drop of five feet or so to the lawn below. [9]
There was a group by every side altar and chapel, all the benches were occupied by knots of them, and there were so many circles of them seated on the pavement that I could with difficulty make my way among them. [4]
He drew her gently away, and they walked together along Park Street towards the distant arc-light at the corner which flung a gleaming band along the wet pavement. [9]
The pavement in front of the company boarding-houses by the canal was plastered with sodden leaves whipped from the maples by the driving rain in the night. [9]
At last she found strength to turn to fly, but at the same instant a loud and furious bark echoed behind her and she heard the monster's quick leaps as he flew after her along the stone pavement. [10]
It has rattled for years over the cobble-stones of a rough city pavement. [6]
Janet was speechless for sheer lack of words to describe what she felt.... At length he brought the car to a halt opposite an imposing doorway in front of which a glass roof extended over the pavement, and Janet demanded where they were. [9]
The slim, tall figure of a young woman descended from a carriage and crossed the pavement, and in the soft light of the vestibule she recognized Ethel Wing. [9]
The publican was fighting one of the smiths at the door, and when the workmen came out the smith, wrenching himself free from the tavern keeper, fell face downward on the pavement. [2]
At last I fell asleep, until the wheels rattled on the pavement of the city streets. [10]
The sound of feet was heard on the pavement. [9]
She dropped her eyes and caught sight of a dark stain on the snow-white plumage of the doves in the mosaic pavement at her feet. [10]
But directly the excitable little man, Renault, had appeared on the pavement above him. [9]
We've got the entire contract for Dobson's Patent Pavement for the city of Mobile. [5]
There's an elevated double pavement of umbrellas, stretching down the sides of the streets as far as I can see. [5]
Extreme fatigue had deadened consciousness, yet she fancied that at times she heard the sound of footsteps on the pavement outside, and the deep voices of men. [10]
Herr von Nordwyk's chestnut horse was stamping on the pavement before the door, and Hesperus was rising above the roofs. [10]
Perhaps George had caught sight of a face in the depths of the carriage, for he turned purple, and stood staring on the pavement after his choleric parent had gone on. [9]
Here was the broken pavement, worn, so long ago, by pious feet, that Time, stealing on the pilgrims' steps, had trodden out their track, and left but crumbling stones. [12]
He had his ballads strung singly upon a cord against the house wall, and held down in piles on the pavement with stones and blocks of wood. [8]
When she alighted at the corner of Burton Street there was the well-remembered, shifting group on the pavement in front of the church porch. [9]
These useful persons appear to have a life-lease of this portion of the city pavement, and pretty effectually block it up nearly all day and evening. [4]
Waving her fan, and tripping over the pavement like a wag-tail, she came directly towards the disputants. [10]

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