Thoroughfare

Examples

• Here, in a broad thoroughfare, once the abode of wealthy City merchants, we found the sculpture works for which we searched. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had found ourselves in the morning. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• It was the opening of this street from a lane into a great thoroughfare, thirty years ago, which has caused his property to rise so much in value. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• A watchman was crying half-past nine, down a dark passage through which she had to pass, in gaining the main thoroughfare. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• She looked despairingly up and down the dreary thoroughfare. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• A small, dim, crooked shop, kept in a tortuous, up-hill thoroughfare, by a small, dim, crooked man. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• There is always, to this day, a sudden pause in that place to the roar of the great thoroughfare. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• At last the fugitive, hard-pressed, takes to a narrow passage and a court which has no thoroughfare. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The side of the town on which Crampton lay was especially a thoroughfare for the factory people. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Again, Park Lane is a frequented thoroughfare; there is a cab stand within a hundred yards of the house. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• On the left ran a lane which led to the stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a public, though little used, thoroughfare. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Mr. Weller regaled himself with moderation at the nearest tavern until it was nearly dusk, and then returned to the lane without the thoroughfare. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Archer had seated himself near the window and was gazing out blankly at the deserted thoroughfare. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• This is the street, said he, as we turned into a short thoroughfare lined with plain two-storied brick houses. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Mr. Snagsby says nothing to this effect, says nothing at all indeed, but coughs his forlornest cough, expressive of no thoroughfare in any direction. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• 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.

Edited by Cathryn