They were coming directly toward him and the ape-man saw that should he continue on he would meet them directly at the intersection of the two
streets in the full light of the flare.
It was fairly dark a few minutes after we got within the wall, and we rode long distances through wonderfully crooked
streets, eight to ten feet wide, and shut in on either aide by the high mud-walls of the gardens.
In her
streets one found the extremes of magnificence and misery, of civilisation and disorder.
Gringoire, a practical philosopher of the
streets of Paris, had noticed that nothing is more propitious to revery than following a pretty woman without knowing whither she is going.
When the
streets were slippery with frost or snow that was the worst of all for us horses.
He menaced mankind at the intersections of
streets.
Many people were hurrying through the
streets and there were many soldiers, but cabs were still driving about, tradesmen stood at their shops, and service was being held in the churches as usual.
He remembered the look that had lurked in the girl's eyes when they had met on the
streets and thought of the note she had written.
And we fled eastward through the quiet
streets, prepared at every cross
street for anything to happen.
I got lost in a tangle of narrow and crooked
streets, and stayed lost for an hour or two.
The general alarm was so apparent in the faces of the inhabitants, and its expression was so aggravated by want of rest (few persons, with any property to lose, having dared go to bed since Monday), that a stranger coming into the
streets would have supposed some mortal pest or plague to have been raging.
Of course all the students in the crammer's biology class, to which my brother went that day, were intensely interested, but there were no signs of any unusual excitement in the
streets. The afternoon papers puffed scraps of news under big headlines.