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Sentences starting with streets

Streets in some towns have a litter of pieces of paper, and odds and ends of one sort or another lying around. [5]

Sentences ending with streets

Carts piled high with household utensils, chairs, and cupboards kept emerging from the gates of the yards and moving along the streets. [2]
Forty eight guns with ammunition have been sent him from here, and his Serene Highness says he will defend Moscow to the last drop of blood and is even ready to fight in the streets. [2]
The next morning, when I sallied out to hire a conveyance, I was an object of interest to the entire population, who seemed to think it very odd that any one should walk about and explore the quiet streets. [4]
They had forgotten what grass was like, and the velvety green meadows seemed paradise to their surprised and happy eyes after the long habit of seeing nothing but dirty lanes and streets. [5]
The nearer they went to the market-place, which they must cross, the more crowded were the streets. [10]
It is a vast mass of building, compactly crusting a hill, and is cloven in all directions by an intricate confusion of cracks which stand for streets. [5]
March understood the unwillingness of the poor to leave the worst conditions in the city for comfort and plenty in the country when he reflected upon this dramatic incident, one of many no doubt which daily occur to entertain them in such streets. [8]
At last the tumult was so great that the whip-bearers were insufficient to cope with it, and a detachment of the body-guard was sent to patrol the streets. [10]
We'd go out, tired as we were, and walk the streets. [9]
For a little time the room was packed, then some of the more restless spirits, their thirst assuaged, sallied forth to taste the lager and old rye elsewhere, and "raise Cain" in the streets. [11]

Short sentences using streets

The streets were still. [11]

Sentences containing streets two or more times

But they began to notice that some streets were quiet and clean, and, though never so quiet and clean as Boston streets, that they wore an air of encouraging reform, and suggested a future of greater and greater domesticity. [8]
At first all the New York streets looked to them ill-paved, dirty, and repulsive; the general infamy imparted itself in their casual impression to streets in no wise guilty. [8]
At first the lad liked to stroll through the streets and watch the long, brilliant processions, or timidly shrink back when closely-muffled men, their figures wholly invisible except the eyes and feet, bore a corpse along, or glided on mysterious missions through the streets. [10]
Thus the crowd in the streets was lessened, order appeared amid the tumult, and when, in the dawn of morning, Adrian turned his steps towards home, there was little more bustle in the streets than on ordinary nights. [10]
Their youth, perchance, had been spent amongst the crooked streets of some French village, streets lined by red-tiled houses and crossing limpid streams by quaint bridges. [9]

More example sentences with the word streets in them

It was Sunday; yet at Canterbury the streets were empty; strangest of all, there was not even a priest in sight, and no stroke of a bell fell upon my ear. [5]
It had been written just after Georg's return the day before, and ran as follows: "Joyously they march along, Lights are flashing through the panes, In the streets a busy throng Curiosity enchains. [10]
Charles Augustus Murray, writing some forty-five or fifty years ago, said--'The streets are narrow, ill paved and ill lighted. [5]
The grand total would have been twice as large, but the streets were very narrow, and hundreds who wanted to bid could not get within a block of the stand, and could not make themselves heard. [5]
Relieved of the worst of her griefs, Agne followed her new friend through the streets and lanes, till they paused at the gate of a small garden and he said: "Here we are. [10]
The streets swarmed with people, waiting impatiently to see the strange spectacle which the punishment of one of the king's wives, who had proved false and faithless, promised to afford. [10]
Egad," he added with a laugh, "there would be no more walking the streets at night in search of adventure for you. [9]
The streets are wisely made narrow and the houses heavy and thick and stony, in order that the people may be cool in this roasting climate. [5]
From all the windows of the streets through which he rode, rugs, flags, and his monogram were displayed, and the Polish ladies, welcoming him, waved their handkerchiefs to him. [2]
Taken as a whole, the underground city had some thirty miles of streets and a population of five or six thousand. [5]
Gentlemen and ladies who were sick, or were taking a siesta, or had dissipated till a late hour and were making up lost sleep, thronged into the public streets in all sorts of queer apparel, and some without any at all. [5]
His hair was white, and he walked the streets with a crutch. [9]
In a little while we were speeding through the streets of Paris and delightfully recognizing certain names and places with which books had long ago made us familiar. [5]
And all this while the poor lie in London streets upon pallets of straw, or else in the mire and dirt, and die like dogs! [4]
The streets along which they passed in the pale morning light were now deserted, and a film of mist, behind which glowed the golden light of the newly risen sun, shrouded the horizon. [10]
The streets through which the procession moved were broad and straight, the houses on either side, built of brick, tall and handsome. [10]
It was one which I had rented from Howard Ogilvy, and it stood on the corner of Baker and Clinton streets, near that fashionable neighbourhood called "the Heights. [9]
I knew not where I was, nor how long I had been walking the streets at a furious pace. [9]
Why, just now, when Caesar is here, and gain and honor be in the streets for such a one as you only to stoop for--why, I say, you should waste precious time on that poring fellow from the Museum, I can not understand. [10]
Outside, the streets were still crowded with people pouring out of the amphitheatre. [10]
Along the streets were places of torment and torture exceedingly ingenious and disagreeable. [4]
The maidservants who were opening the shutters glanced gaily out into the streets, and arranged the flowers in front of the windows or bowed reverently as a priest passed by on his way to mass. [10]
Next evening there were more costly gifts, but albeit Puer natus was still to be heard in the streets, we no longer were moved to join in. [10]
Thousands of people were made so sea-sick by the rolling and pitching of floors and streets that they were weak and bed-ridden for hours, and some few for even days afterward.--Hardly an individual escaped nausea entirely. [5]
Here the streets were like a city of the dead; not a door was open, not a man to be seen. [10]
The streets themselves were just as crowded with quartz wagons, freight teams and other vehicles. [5]
The shop signs were in foreign tongues; in some streets all Hebrew. [4]
Though the streets were full, the town did not seem any less deserted; and the early marketers had only come to life for a day, revisiting the places that once they thronged. [4]
Radiating from this were five streets and passages like the spokes of a wheel, and from these now poured the defenders of the isle. [11]
The Alexandrian populace were accustomed to see much that was strange in the busy streets of their crowded city; but this vehicle attracted every eye, and excited astonishment, admiration and mirth, wherever it appeared, and not unfrequently the bitterest ridicule. [10]
He came and went through the streets, and was found at his usual haunts, to observers as cool and nonchalant as ever. [11]
Then came a week of what the Muncheners call hot weather, with the thermometer up to eighty degrees Fahrenheit, and the white wide streets and gray buildings in a glare of light; since then, weather of the most uncertain sort. [4]
After nightfall, as we walked in the middle of the roughly paved streets, meeting few people, and hearing only the echoing clatter of the wooden sabots of the few who were abroad, the old spirit of the place came over us. [4]
If one whom we recognized and adored as a god should go abroad in our streets, and the day it was to happen were known, all traffic would be blocked and business would come to a standstill. [5]
We bent our way towards one of the sandy streets where the great houses were. [9]
I made my way cautiously through the streets towards the cathedral, for I owed a duty to the poor soldier who had died in my arms, through whose death I had been able to enter the town. [11]
Early though it was, the narrow streets of the wholesale district reverberated with the rattle of trucks and echoed with the shouts of drivers. [9]
Yet the impression was instantaneous, when I set forth in the streets of New York, that we had not fully measured the magnitude of our task--an impression that has been amply confirmed as the weeks have passed. [9]
Well--months afterward, I was driving through the streets of Munich in a cab with a German lady, one day, when she said: "There, that is Prince Ludwig and his wife, walking along there. [5]
That afternoon there was a great tumult in Rouen, and excited crowds were flocking through all the chief streets, chattering and seeking for news; for a report had gone abroad that Joan of Arc was sick until death. [5]
In short, he was a decidedly ordinary looking person; you would meet a hundred like him in the streets of Far Harbor and Beaverton. [9]
When a lady walks the streets, she leaves her virtuous-indignation countenance at home; she knows well enough that the street is a picture-gallery, where pretty faces framed in pretty bonnets are meant to be seen, and everybody has a right to see them. [6]
We took a walk down street, a block or two, and a place where four streets met and the principal shops were clustered, found the groups of men in the roadway thicker than ever--for this was the Exchange of Chamonix. [5]
The town was waking from its siesta, the streets filling, and people stopped to stare at Nick as we passed. [9]
They are so vividly portrayed that we are convinced the author must have known them in that great world with which he was so familiar; we should not be surprised to meet any of them in the streets of London. [4]
But these occasional visitors may have been mere wanderers, which, straying along in the woods by day, and perhaps stalking through the streets of still villages by night, had worked their way along down from the ragged mountain-spurs of higher latitudes. [6]
An hour later, Virginia and her aunt and the Captain, followed by Mammy aster and Rosetta and Susan, were walking through the streets of the stillest city in the Union. [9]
We reached the village, the French gentlemen leaped down from their stools in the cart, and in ten minutes the streets were filled with frenzied, hooded figures. [9]
The streets were very narrow, and crooked, and dirty, especially in the part where Tom Canty lived, which was not far from London Bridge. [5]
The streets are very layed out by line and too paved. [5]
The streets were very clean, very sunny, very empty, and very dull. [12]
There was a vast city laid out in regular streets, but there were no houses. [4]
But for their usefulness in partially cleansing these terrible streets, they would not be tolerated long. [5]
The sun rose upon wrecked and smoking buildings, and upon mutilated corpses lying here, there, and yonder about the streets, just as they fell, and stripped naked by thieves, the unholy gleaners after the mob. [5]
Afterward we walked up and down one of the most popular streets for some time, enjoying other people's comfort and wishing we could export some of it to our restless, driving, vitality-consuming marts at home. [5]
Dyck rode the unpaved streets on his horse with its high demipicque Spanish saddle, with its silver stirrups and heavy bit, and made his way towards Charlotte Bedford's lodgings. [11]
He idled through unfrequented streets, stopping in doorways and corners to take it out and look at it. [5]
The free inhabitants, unaccustomed to such restrictions, revenged themselves by cutting witticisms at Caesar's expense, "for clearing the streets of Alexandria by his men-at-arms as he did those of Rome by the executioner. [10]
In silence they turned for a last lingering look, and in silence went down the slope into the world again, and through the streets to the driveway of the Duncan house. [9]
Here all was tumult and confusion; the streets were filled with throngs of people--many strangers were there, it seemed, by the looks they cast about--the church-bells rang out their noisy peals, and flags streamed from windows and house-tops. [12]
Of all her trials, the homesickness which she experienced as she drove through the deserted streets of the metropolis of the Middle West was perhaps the worst. [9]
As Ruth Leigh tramped along late this afternoon in the slush of the streets, from one house of sickness and poverty to another, a sense of her puny efforts in this great mass of suffering and injustice came over her anew. [4]
Here is a town of twelve or thirteen thousand population, with electric lighted streets, and with blocks of buildings which are stately enough, and also architecturally fine enough, to command respect in any city. [5]
Showing that the town has grown in sympathy with human needs and eccentricities, and is not the work of a surveyor, the streets are irregular, forming picturesque angles and open spaces. [4]
But our friends took very little notice of what was going on in the streets through which they passed; they followed Syloson in silence. [10]
In silence they took their way back to the handsomer streets of Sais, without noticing how many mutilated Egyptians crossed their path. [10]
The color holds, too, toward sundown, and seems to be poured, like something solid, into the streets of the city. [4]
One of them told me, as illustrating his want of dignity, that as he was going home late one night through the nearly empty streets, he was met by a roystering party who were making a night of it from tavern to tavern. [4]
The Serapeum lay to their right, several streets leading to it from the street of the Sun. [10]
In driving down to the old city, to the place of business of the Barings, I found many streets little changed. [6]
Five years previous to the battle of the Plains of Abraham, one comes across three genuine Scots in the streets of Quebec--all however prisoners of war, taken in the border raids--as such under close surveillance. [11]
It is needless to say with what eager curiosity he entered its gates and wandered through its streets, and gazed upon its Oriental monuments. [4]
She began mechanically to rearrange her hat and veil; and after that, sitting upright, to watch the cross streets with feverish anticipation, her hands in her lap. [9]
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]
But it seems to me that in walking the streets of London and Paris I shall revert to my student days, and appear to myself like a relic of a former generation. [6]
It was pleasant to have her do all the packing, while I read or sauntered in the queer streets about the inns. [9]
They are prone to habits,--they frequent reading-rooms,--insurance-offices,--they walk the same streets at the same hours,--so that one becomes familiar with their faces and persons, as a part of the street-furniture. [6]
Instead of going to Eda's she walked alone, seeking the quieter streets that her thoughts might flow undisturbed. [9]
Pictou is said to be a thriving place, and its streets have a cindery appearance, betokening the nearness of coal mines and the presence of furnaces. [4]
From time to time we wound through the cobble-stoned streets of historic villages, each having its stone church end the bodki-shaped steeple of blue slate so characteristic of that country. [9]
For the first time she ventured to call herself unhappy and, while walking through the streets with downcast eyes against the wind, struggled vainly to resist some mysterious, gloomy power, that compelled her to minutely recall everything that had resulted differently from her expectations. [10]
So I passed through the vacant streets, still seeing the town as it was, and not as it is, and recognizing and metaphorically shaking hands with a hundred familiar objects which no longer exist; and finally climbed Holiday's Hill to get a comprehensive view. [5]
Then a ramble through the town, which is a quaint one, with interesting, crooked streets, and narrow, crooked lanes, with here and there a grain of dust. [5]
We went abroad through the town, then, and found it a city of huge commercial buildings, and broad, handsome streets brilliant with gas-light. [5]
As he rode through the streets, people stopped him and poured out questions; but he only shrugged his shoulders, and gave no information, and neither denied nor affirmed anything. [11]
As I sped through the streets, I could not help but think of how he had kissed her hand as he fell, and I knew by this act, at such a time, that in very truth he loved her after his fashion. [11]
The Emperor rode through the streets to comfort the inhabitants, and, despite his preoccupation with state affairs, himself visited the theaters that were established by his order. [2]
On his way through the streets Pierre felt stifled by the smoke which seemed to hang over the whole city. [2]
As he drove through the streets past the houses that had been burned down, he was surprised by the beauty of those ruins. [2]
As David walked through the streets of Heddington making for the open country, he was conscious of a new feeling regarding the place. [11]
She swept swiftly through the streets and bazaars on her mission to Nahoum. [11]
The regiments marched through the streets and aboard the boats, and pushed off before a levee of waving handkerchiefs and nags. [9]
As they walked through the silent streets toward the Opera House, he listened perforce to Mr. Bixby's comments upon some of the innumerable details which Jethro had planned and quietly carried out while sitting, in the window of the Throne Room. [9]
Other detachments passed through the Kremlin and encamped along the Moroseyka, the Lubyanka, and Pokrovka Streets. [2]
Pierre's way led through side streets to the Povarskoy and from there to the church of St. Nicholas on the Arbat, where he had long before decided that the deed should be done. [2]
Out of this throng in the streets I like to select the meek, patient, diminutive little donkeys, with enormous panniers that almost hide them. [4]
More than five thousand young men tried to get into the theatre, and in a short time traffic was practically stopped in the adjacent streets. [5]
The divine in this woman of the streets regenerated by the divine in her fellow-creatures, was gasping like a new-born babe for breath. [9]
I mention these things to give an idea of how narrow the streets are. [5]
Inside the vast, thick-walled halls it was much cooler than in the streets even, and the hours glided fast to the besieged heathen. [10]

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