Thoroughfares
[θɜ:rəʊ,feəz]
Examples
- Five of these great thoroughfares radiate from one ample centre--a centre which is exceedingly well adapted to the accommodation of heavy artillery. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He stooped a good deal, and plodded along in a slow pre-occupied manner, which made the bustling London thoroughfares no very safe resort for him. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- They had crossed the Place des Invalides, and were walking down one of the thoroughfares flanking the building. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Veneering loses his way in the usual No Thoroughfares of speech, and Podsnap and Twemlow say Hear hear! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I study and get up abstruse No Thoroughfares in the course of the day. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The thoroughfares and highways of civilization fairly swarm with thousands of glistening and silently gliding wheels. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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