"Pavement" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... station. In the rain Yaroslavl looks like Zvenigorod, and its churches remind me of Perervinsky Monastery; there are lots of illiterate signboards, it's muddy, jackdaws with big heads strut about the pavement. ...
— Letters of Anton Chekhov • Anton Chekhov
... Alma, with my husband's and Mr. Eastcliff's party back from the races, and as soon as we met on the pavement she began to pay me high ...
— The Woman Thou Gavest Me - Being the Story of Mary O'Neill • Hall Caine
... watch, twisted himself free of the wheel, leaped to the pavement, and tapped one of the hall-porter's gold ...
— Cynthia's Chauffeur • Louis Tracy
... drove by, and a few people on foot occasionally walked past the window. The clouds were gathering rapidly over the sky, and the air was becoming every instant more sultry and oppressive. Heavy drops of rain began to fall one by one in large round spots on the dusty pavement. Red and darkgreen umbrellas began to be unfolded; the carts to drive by more briskly; the marble players to withdraw into the house after sundry vociferations from some neighbouring window; and the whole scene fairly assumed the hopeless character of a rainy summer's evening. Meantime two men had ...
— Ellen Middleton--A Tale • Georgiana Fullerton
... rare. A case is mentioned in Blackwood's Magazine of October 1817, where a lady walking along a London street had her bag snatched from her by a drover's dog. The animal, apparently without any master, was noticed lying, seemingly asleep, by the pavement-side, but on the approach of the lady it sprang suddenly up, snatched from her hand what is described as her "ridicule," and made off at full gallop. On inquiry it was ascertained that the dog was well known as a thief, and that his habit was to lie in the street, apparently ...
— Stories of the Border Marches • John Lang and Jean Lang
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