Pavements

Examples

• There was a jaded aspect on the business lanes and courts, and the very pavements had a weary appearance, confused by the tread of a million of feet. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The burden fell into a strain or tune as he stumped along the pavements. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Far below me lay the brilliantly lighted streets, the hard pavements, and death. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Neat, smooth, hard, beautiful pavements are now taking the place everywhere of the unsatisfactory gravel, wood, and brick pavements of former days. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• And yet he did care something for the streets that environed that house, and for the senseless stones that made their pavements. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Municipal improvements were undertaken in Panama and Colon and the various settlements in the Canal Zone, such as the construction of reservoirs, pavements and a system of modern roads. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• More clattering upon the pavements. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The air was full of the sound of criers and of people talking, thick streams of people moved on the pavements towards the solid crowd of the market. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• A group of loafers upon the pavements, all staring up at a particular window, directed me to the house which I had come to see. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The pavements, the roads, and the bridges are all government work. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Often householders must relay their pavements and walks because of the damage done by freezing water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.

Typist: Malcolm