How To Use Thoroughfare In A Sentence
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As they negotiated the park gates and turned into the crowded thoroughfare, Patience sat, stiffly erect; inside, her emotions churned.
A RAKE'S VOW
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The main thoroughfare there is Midsummer Boulevard, or H6, if you prefer the totalitarian grid system peculiar to the area.
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The little silver bell tinkles at a wayside shrine, calling the labouring man to propitiate the idol for the carelessness and detected dishonesties of his day's labours, and goodly Hindus, men and women, stream down the busy thoroughfare, responsive to the call.
Love and Life Behind the Purdah
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Some of the country's main thoroughfares converge at the busy Naas Road roundabout next to the Red Cow Inn.
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A street cleaner already cleans the main thoroughfares but wind eddies can blow drifts of crisp packets and chocolate wrappers into alleys and hedges, he said.
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The pedestrianised street is one of the main thoroughfares in the city and lends itself to street music and entertainment as well as thriving business.
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We wandered down the main thoroughfare and found ourselves on Desker Road, where some of our number insisted on seeing the back alley ‘sights’.
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A century ago, this was a muddy thoroughfare for burros and carts carrying firewood down from the mountains.
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Though long dry, these subterranean thoroughfares are literally everywhere beneath the city of London.
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Situated just off Filey's main thoroughfare, this proved to be a busy venue.
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The oil-on-canvas scene captures the town's main thoroughfare when it was still a two-way street.
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Would these people come to a village pub off a main thoroughfare if the food was as bad as your reviewer makes out?
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Was sickened by the kid on the tricycle barrelling down a major thoroughfare.
Just finding this site now - FAIL
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When it was time to file out the side-door into the courtway, she would linger at prayers, then slip out another door, and unseen glide up Chartres Street to Canal, and once there, mingle in the throng that filled the wide thoroughfare.
The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories
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Imagine a slew of developable land parcels facing a brand-new, landscaped thoroughfare, right in the heart of one of the nation's most expensive cities.
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Restrictions remained in place on the city's main thoroughfare for a couple of hours as gardaí cordoned off the scene and ambulances ferried the injured to hospital.
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Upon leaving, walk down St. Paul's steps and make a right turn onto the first main thoroughfare.
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The celebrities rode in a traditional Nepalese-style procession of Everest summiteers, mountaineers, Nepalese government and other officials that passed through the main thoroughfare of Nepal's capital.
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Angular planes of corrugated steel extend out to frame the entrance and engage with the public thoroughfare.
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Ironically, it is the newly-paved and sprawling five-lane thoroughfares clogged with sightseeing families and truckers laded down with ever more consumer items to choke our landfills, that has over the decades made Cadillac Ranch the Texan Stonehenge for sight-seers and graffiti enthusiasts eager to leave their mark of existence.
G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That
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A walk down Tokyo's main thoroughfares presents the modern observer with conflicting pictures.
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Hundreds of children who arrived in the town were entertained by a disco in the square and street carnival along the main thoroughfare, with clowns and face painters on hand to add colour.
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Don't park your car on a busy thoroughfare.
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To this end, vacant plots of land, broad boulevards, thoroughfares, public gardens, and parks are used.
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All nationalities joined in as we marched up the main thoroughfare.
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The first public gas company in the world was set up in London in 1812, and Westminster Bridge was the first public thoroughfare to be illuminated by gaslight.
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These will normally be major thoroughfares such as hallways, cloakrooms, bathrooms and the kitchen.
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Bath Street is turning out to be Glasgow's premier thoroughfare for boozing, schmoozing and general tomfoolery.
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16th and 15th Streets are main thoroughfares, with little commercial activity - be cautious at night.
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I now remembered that, in fact, a fruiterer, carrying upon his head a large basket of apples, had nearly thrown me down, by accident, as we passed from the Rue C — into the thoroughfare where we stood; but what this had to do with Chantilly I could not possibly understand.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
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Located on the outskirts of Iowa Falls on Henderson Street, an area striated with railway lines, the tower is tucked away from the town's thoroughfare, with only a metal fence separating it from the countryside.
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The town's main thoroughfare Duval Street, once borderline sleazy, is now rather smart and other quarters have been similarly refurbished.
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The town of Enniscrone has taken on a distinctly new visage in the garments of tall and beautiful, well formed Christmas trees along the main thoroughfares.
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The Gentile Church is the "door," the type of catholic accessibleness (1Co 16: 9); but it must be not a mere thoroughfare but furnished with a wooden framework, so as not merely to admit, but also to safely enclose: cedar is fragrant, beautiful, and enduring.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Don't park your car on a busy thoroughfare.
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Along with the tree, the main thoroughfare through Mountmellick will be a far brighter place, as rows of lights are strung all along the street.
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With energy, enthusiasm and many brushes they swept the accumulation of weekend litter from O'Connell Square and the main thoroughfare of the town.
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In Karachi, what at times starts off as a docile four-lane line-up in a thoroughfare meant for two lanes, frequently descends to a crawl and ends in a seething orgy of terpsichorean self-expression run riot.
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Recollections occasionally obtruded, -- recollections of marts and galleries and crowded thoroughfares, of evening dress and social functions, of good men and dear women he had known, -- but they were dim memories of a life he had lived long centuries agone, on some other planet.
In a Far Country
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In the reader's imagination these shards of place and time woven into the mimetic weft cohere into a sense of location, layout of objects, orientation of characters within that immediate frame -- at night, on a street corner, where a side-street joins a wide thoroughfare.
Notes on Worldscape
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“An interoceanic canal . . . will be the great ocean thoroughfare between our Atlantic and our Pacific shores and virtually a part of the coastline of the United States.”
The Path Between the Seas
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This week work was under way to re-open the path and residents are hoping it will be a thoroughfare again by the weekend.
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They will be cruising along a thoroughfare when an enormous chuckhole appears ahead in the road.
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The main shopping thoroughfares of Lord, Church, and Bold Streets, achieve, in spite of a dearth of any really good buildings, and a hotchpotch of eccentric styles, quite a pleasing effect.
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The gill (or “ghyll,” as the poet writes it), from which the lonely family that dwelt there took their name, was not upon the bridle-road from Scargate Hall toward Middleton, nor even within eye or reach of any road at all; but overlooked by kites alone, and tracked with thoroughfare of nothing but the mountain streamlet.
Mary Anerley
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There is so much potential for this to be one of Bradford's most attractive shopping thoroughfares.
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The singles made their way into the cave's tunnel-like entrance under a full moon via Sultan Suleiman Street, a main thoroughfare in Jerusalem's largely Arab eastern sector.
Israeli singles look for new love in ancient cave
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On a major thoroughfare, a barricade constructed of burning tyres sent a wall of thick, black smoke along the street.
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The declining number of urban families with young children, as well as an increase in real and perceived social problems, complicate efforts to revitalize public thoroughfares such as alleys.
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The trucks sealed off the main thoroughfare at both ends preventing resupplies from reaching Col.
Libyan Rebels Buoyed by Strategic Win
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Go left onto Broad Street, the town's main thoroughfare.
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Recollections occasionally obtruded, -- recollections of marts and galleries and crowded thoroughfares, of evening dress and social functions, of good men and dear women he had known, -- but they were dim memories of a life he had lived long centuries agone, on some other planet.
In a Far Country
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Paths or parks next to freeways or major thoroughfares are trouble.
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Shops spilled out into the thoroughfare, the traffic of furry figures bustling around stalls and awnings and shop windows.
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Up ahead, a thoroughfare Traffic was going across the intersection at a good clip in both directions.
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The gill (or "ghyll," as the poet writes it), from which the lonely family that dwelt there took their name, was not upon the bridle-road from Scargate Hall toward Middleton, nor even within eye or reach of any road at all; but overlooked by kites alone, and tracked with thoroughfare of nothing but the mountain streamlet.
Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale
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Police closed off about 12 blocks of a major San Francisco thoroughfare for today's march.
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Qixian to when the thoroughfare has always been one of Shanxi Province a transportation hub.
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As it turned out, the station is well north of its namesake thoroughfare, and its access and egress is via a pedestrian bridge that leads to and from the western side of the tracks.
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The other location was York Street, a grimy thoroughfare running between Argyle Street and the river.
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He scanned Shaftesbury Avenue with a jaundiced eye, and thought that he had never seen a beastlier thoroughfare.
Uneasy Money
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I walk back towards my lodgings on Broad Street, which is the main thoroughfare through town.
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At the west end, off Europa Boulevard (the main thoroughfare of the east side of the Expo site), the glass screen is inflected.
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On or near the sites of the famous Feuillants and Jacobins he now laid down splendid thoroughfares; and where the constitutionals or reds a decade previously had perorated and fought, the fashionable world of Paris now rolled in gilded cabriolets along streets whose names recalled the
The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2)
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Now it is a narrow, bustling thoroughfare of Greek tavernas and kebab shops.
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Simultaneously, from the farther corner, another pedestrian debouched, into the thoroughfare -- a mere moving shadow at that distance, brother to blacker shadows that skulked in the fenced areas and unlively entries of that poorly lighted block.
The Black Bag
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Don't park your car on a busy thoroughfare.
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The crowd was more dense here; stalls stood on either side of a thoroughfare packed with carts, horses and, of course, troops of pilgrims.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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Facility under maintenance no thoroughfare for vehicles.
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(for that old building stood solitary amidst its grounds a little apart from the spacious platform on which the society of the Hill was concentrated), but up the broad causeway, with vistaed gaslamps; the gayer shops still-unclosed, the tide of busy life only slowly ebbing from the still-animated street, on to a square, in which the four main thoroughfares of the city converged, and which formed the boundary of Low
A Strange Story — Volume 01
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Off most of the main bustling thoroughfares lie tiny cobbled streets draped with vines and lined with old brick facades.
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Three or so miles south of Evanston is a revived Chicago neighborhood, once chiefly Swedish working class, called Andersonville, on whose main thoroughfare, Clark Street, reside a charming gallimaufry of odd shops and non-franchise restaurants.
In Praise of Shopkeepers
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Those East End thoroughfares like East India Dock Road were full of commercial stores and warehouses and godowns.
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A pleasing blend of cream-coloured cladding, monolithic steel and glass atriums, Rowan House is based around a single, central thoroughfare, topped by a massive glass roof.
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TWO major thoroughfares because the highway twists like vines as lanes spin up or down around each other - and the roads bend and warp until at last - at *last* - the road bears its own name on a sign.
Austin streets are as hipster as the population
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By night the City Mall turns into a thoroughfare for people moving between the City's most popular nightspots.
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Given the backdrop of ferns, hostas and the wooden acanthus leaves, this is an excellent way to bring back into the garden what would otherwise be a slightly shady thoroughfare.
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He set me free to roam the muddy thoroughfares of the city.
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A scant quarter-chime later, Lycaelon Tavadon strode down the main thoroughfare of Armethalieh, his heavily embroidered black-on-silver Arch-Mage robes belling behind him with the force of his passage, and the wide-brimmed, pointed hat that matched them held on to his head by a clever cantrip.
Tran Siberian
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He fears the Goshree bridges would divest the islands of their charm of being aloof and convert them into a thoroughfare.
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Come oot o 'the gutter, ye nickum!" cried, in harsh, half-masculine voice, a woman standing on the curbstone of a short, narrow, dirty lane, at right angles to an important thoroughfare, itself none of the widest or cleanest.
Sir Gibbie
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The one breath is throughout blunt, otherwise thoroughfare would a cut a to break.
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Students with backpacks strapped on are crisscrossing Northwestern Avenue, the main thoroughfare through campus.
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The information superhighway is a busy thoroughfare and there's going to be some road kill along the way.
Arianna Huffington: Journalism 2009: Desperate Metaphors, Desperate Revenue Models, And The Desperate Need For Better Journalism
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I was walking along one of the main thoroughfares of Glasgow's East End on a Saturday night a few weeks ago when I spied a pair of likely lads lurching towards me.
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Usually a busy thoroughfare, at weekends the foyer was deserted but for a commissionaire and a receptionist.
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Eventually, she reached the main thoroughfare, which was called Colman Avenue.
STARCRAFT GHOST NOVA
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Police closed off about 12 blocks of a major San Francisco thoroughfare for today's march.
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Diversion signs will be put in place well in advance of the closure of the section of road, which is one of the main thoroughfares in and out of the city.
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The Hospital authorities laid out a thoroughfare 66 feet in width from the west side of Elizabeth Street to the east side of University Avenue, and paved and side-walked it entirely at their own expense.
The City Planning Project
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Any owner or person in charge of such dog being walked upon any common thoroughfare, sidewalk, street, gutter, beach, passageway, bypath, play area, park, public school grounds, or place where people congregate, must have in their possession their cleanup device and nonabsorbent, leak proof container.
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Then they burst from the backstreets and the alleyway onto a large empty thoroughfare.
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In the District, 200 trucks had pretreated bridges, ramps and elevated roads for much of Monday evening, leaving major thoroughfares such as Connecticut Avenue NW wet but easily passable.
Freezing rain, slush prompt school closings, government delays
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The town gates were set in the walls where these principal thoroughfares made their exit.
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It seems that a ha-ha has been banked up to hide the public thoroughfare from which one turns down the private avenue of limes to approach the manor house.
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Next Sunday, the first movie to benefit from the New York-style film office will shoot scenes on Dublin's main thoroughfare, with the help of Gardai.
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For many days of the week shoppers and visitors alike, coming to Ballyhaunis, find it increasingly difficult to obtain parking facilities on or near the town's main shopping thoroughfares.
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He added that another possibility would be to block the road so it could not be used as a thoroughfare.
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Seb found himself a spot along the main thoroughfare and leaned up against the wall to watch the crowd.
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Contemplating the possibility of being hedged in by surroundfarms, there were purchased two strips of land to provide private entrances from the main thoroughfares of Yonge Street and Queen Street.
Old Toronto
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But fear lent us wings, and suddenly before us was a blaze of light and we saw the debouchment of our street in a main thoroughfare.
Greenmantle
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The march passed through the town's main thoroughfares and ended outside the local press club.
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Silver-coated mime artists, preening pipers and flaming fire-eaters clog every city thoroughfare.
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It was also a thoroughfare for the gay equipages of the square, which passed through it daily on their way to and from the adjoining stables, thereby endangering the lives of precocious babies who could crawl, but could not walk away from home, as well as affording food for criticism and scandal, not to mention the leaving behind of a species of secondhand odour of gentility such as coachmen and footmen can give forth.
Fighting the Flames
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I did not pass through the lane which led direct to Abbots 'House (for that old building stood solitary amidst its grounds a little apart from the spacious platform on which the society of the Hill was concentrated), but up the broad causeway, with vistaed gaslamps; the gayer shops still-unclosed, the tide of busy life only slowly ebbing from the still-animated street, on to a square, in which the four main thoroughfares of the city converged, and which formed the boundary of
A Strange Story — Complete
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Aside from resisting the urge to reach out and skitch a 100kph ride behind a passing semi, I give my mtb a bit of extra purpose by transforming the verge beside the narrow crumbling sections of road into a personal bike lane, and where reasonable I stop to drag the larger roadkill off the thoroughfare - today it was a wombat.
Pull My Strings: The New Puppetry
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On the wharves was the smell of tarred seams and cordage, -- sweltering in the sun; in the counting-rooms the clerks could barely keep the drops of moisture from their faces from falling down to blot their toilsome lines of figures on the faultless pages of the ledgers; on the Common, common men surreptitiously stretched themselves in shady corners on the grass, regardless of the police, until they should be found and ordered off; little babies in second-rate boarding-houses, where their fathers and mothers had to stay for cheapness the summer through wailed the helpless, pitiful cry of a slowly murdered infancy; and out on the blazing thoroughfares where business had to be busy, strong men were dropping down, and reporters were hovering about upon the skirts of little crowds, gathering their items; making
The Other Girls
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As befitted their social positions the forge and black boys '"humpy" kept a respectful distance well round the south-eastern corner of this thoroughfare; but, for some unknown reason, the fowl-roosts had been erected over Sam Lee's sleeping-quarters.
We of the Never-Never
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The "slype" is a passage which was cut through the southern buttress by Bishop Curle, to put a stop to the constant use of the nave and south aisle as a thoroughfare by the townspeople.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See
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Perhaps the people were simply too excited to eat or the shop itself lay too far off the main thoroughfare.
MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
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First Street, the old town's main thoroughfare, is pleasantly walkable.
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True, travellers were not rare on this road, since it was part of the great highway from London to Chester, and the little thoroughfare town of Stone, some three miles ahead, had a noted posthouse.
The Yeoman Adventurer
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Agents of the secret police swarmed among its buildings and along its thoroughfares like ‘locusts.’
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A nearer view shows a pair of semi-detached houses, built upon arches, and separated by a thoroughfare; the cleaner of the two is a hospital; the dingier, which is decorated with the brown-green stains, the normal complexion of tropical masonry, lodges the station
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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Leading off the main thoroughfare, a warren of smaller streets and squares provide the perfect retreat for food and beer.
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The ones most suited for thoroughfares are generally the best ascetically, and have the fewest noise/pollution/emergency vehicle tradeoffs but are generally also the most expensive and create least aggregate reduction in speed. in short, as usual tanstaafl.
Matthew Yglesias » DC Cop Urges Pedestrians to Avoid Inconveniently Colliding With Illegally Fast-Driving Cars
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Don't park your car on a busy thoroughfare.
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Glumness still inhabits the thoroughfares, but for a few hours, especially the wee small hours after the New York Yankees managed victories over the Arizona Diamondbacks that approached the surrealistic, there was revelling once more.
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Just as pedestrians are accorded priority on thoroughfares because pedestrianism is the natural state of man, so amateur sports stand on a higher plane than professional sport.
For the Love of the Game
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The other location was York Street, a grimy thoroughfare running between Argyle Street and the river.
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We walked through endless marble corridors that twisted and turned with many branches leading from the main thoroughfare.
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In particular, Dean Road and Manor Road are used as a green thoroughfare by residents and are perhaps more akin to urban parks.
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I left the main thoroughfare outside Delhi and followed a narrow single track through an eerie forest of thin spindly trees, close enough together to blot out the sun.
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The solitude was greater than I could bear; the mountain upon my master's sheep-run was a crowded thoroughfare in comparison with this sombre sullen place.
Erewhon; or, Over the range
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Down below on one of the city's most ancient thoroughfares, the thriving pub and club sub-culture was rarely of the blond wood variety.
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Hoardings, which dot the main thoroughfares, used to look bland and unromantic.
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Street lights are now working on main thoroughfares.
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In the former thoroughfare businessmen and travellers were making for comfortable hotels.
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The pub is situated on the town's main thoroughfare and has street frontage of nearly 11 metres.
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Modelled on a thousand-year-old prototype, this hulking birlinn - a Gaelic longboat - will soon be ready to sail out along the Clyde and up the west coast in homage to the time when water was Scotland's main thoroughfare.
The Guardian World News
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Isaac fought heroically to regain his legal portion of the thoroughfare.
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BIKANER - Bikaner witnessed a rally of about 500 camels through its main thoroughfares on Monday.
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Otherwise known as ‘Chip Alley’, it's a thoroughfare of chippies, kebab shops and pizza places that can diplomatically be described as ‘lively’ after the pubs shut.
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Walking downhill to Tbilisi's main thoroughfare, Rustaveli Prospekt (named for Shota Rustaveli, a twelfth-century Georgian poet), I saw flower stalls, dark-haired women in black dresses, and verdant hills in the distance; the countryside is always close by, because of Tbilisi's medieval compactness.
Where Europe Vanishes
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She continued walking through the well-mannered backcloth, then, rounding a corner onto the main thoroughfare, the gardens ended abruptly.
A Small Death in the Great Glen
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Standing at the busy thoroughfares, those such as Yonge and King are here, you can see the policeman holding up his hand to regulate the traffic, because the old rickshaw is there, the taxi-bus is there, the auto is there, and in company with these you can see the man wheeling the wheelbarrow, all competing to see who shall get the first place in this modern traffic of the twentieth century.
Changing China
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Strategically it was important then as it is important now, and Roman soldiery of the past, as the automobilist of to-day, had here four great thoroughfares leading from the city.
The Automobilist Abroad
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Rachen Sageamsak/Xinhua via Zuma Press The blasts happened along Sukhumvit Soi 71, a multilane thoroughfare with businesses and apartment blocks.
Blasts Hit Thai Capital
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Gosh, there's even a humungous, inflatable snowman standing on the thoroughfare of a local shopping centre.
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They seeded the main thoroughfare, a dirt road with moonlike craters, with land mines.
U.S. training Afghan villagers to fight the Taliban
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On the Damrak a well-trodden thoroughfare wedged between Centraal Station and Dam Square, the hotel is sprucing up the accommodation options in the area with designs that feature fine fabrics, fairy tales and famous characters.
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A nearer view shows a pair of semi-detached houses, built upon arches, and separated by a thoroughfare; the cleaner of the two is a hospital; the dingier, which is decorated with the brown - green stains, the normal complexion of tropical masonry, lodges the station Commandant and the medical officers.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1
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Halfan hour ago, I walked into a plush reception lobby on Harley Street - athoroughfare famed for its exclusive private medical practices.
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No omnibus-driver threading the confusion of a great thoroughfare could shape his course with greater assurance and lack of hesitation than does B. through these endless avenues of heavy-foliaged pines, broken only now and then by some tangled, impenetrable brake of cedars, or by a charred and blackened clearing, where the coaler has been at work.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859
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But as he turned out of Main Street, which is the principal thoroughfare, into
The Thunders of Silence
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A rooster crowed every morning, amazing, only blocks from major thoroughfares.
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In crossing crowded thoroughfares I found I had to be, if anything, more lively in avoiding vehicles, and it was strikingly impressed upon me that my life had cheapened in direct ratio with my clothes.
THE DESCENT
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Thoroughfares in and out of the cities are lined with innocent looking hairdressers and beauty parlours.
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Forty-fifth to Fifty-sixth Streets, formerly dead ends at railway yards, became thoroughfares.
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Mr Gibbs advises people to avoid poorly-lit alleyways and instead walk on main thoroughfares.
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Don't park your car on a busy thoroughfare.
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Although it could not be driven in a car, the route would steer cyclists off extremely busy roads and onto quiet thoroughfares and country lanes.
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The stoppage has resulted in garbage accumulating on the main thoroughfares and streets of Lyari.
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These are frequently middle-aged couples who roam the floor together, towing a bulky roller suitcase that kneecaps, en passant, those attendees who don't remember to watch out in the crowded thoroughfares.
Peter Ginna: An Insider's Guide to the Characters of BookExpo America
