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Avenues

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Avenue, Avenues a double row of trees or pillars acting as a passageway, also used figuratively.
Examples: avenues of research; of thought; of wealth.
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Some have such a vast appetite for the former commodity, that is, the news, and such sound digestive organs, that they can sit forever in public avenues without stirring, and let it simmer and whisper through them like the Etesian winds, or as if inhaling ether, it only producing numbness and insensibility to pain -- otherwise it would often be painful to bear -- without affecting the consciousness.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
All those considerations of honour and prudence which our heroe had lately with so much military wisdom placed as guards over the avenues of his heart, ran away from their posts, and the god of love marched in, in triumph.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
Already his mind was travelling swiftly along the avenues of his own future greatness.
The Kingdom of the Blind by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
 
 
 
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