The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

Its front was windowless, but irregularities in the masonry might be an indication that windows, now blinded, had once looked out upon the street.

That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.

From the back of the barn it was a simple matter to reach Black's house without using the street.

The street that is full now of traffic and parked cars then and for many years drowsed on an August afternoon in the shade of the curbside trees, and silence was a weight, almost palpable, in the air.

After his passage, the street was empty again.

The street was unpaved and rose steeply toward the center ; ;

Both abolition of war and new techniques of production, particularly robot factories, greatly increase the world's wealth, a situation described in the following passage, which has the true utopian ring: `` Everything was so cheap that the necessities of life were free, provided as a public service by the community, as roads, water, street lighting and drainage had once been.

The street was again empty.

But that year was different, for just as the city, in the form of my street clothes, had intruded upon my mountain nights, so an essential part of the summer gave promise of continuing into the fall: Jessica and I, about to be separated not by a mere footbridge or messhall kitchen but by the immense obstacle of residing in cruelly distant boroughs, had agreed to correspond.

Fing, a lean, chiseled, impeccable gentleman of the old school who was once mistaken on the street for Sir Cedric Hardwicke, is responsible for the rediscovery of Verdi's earliest, most raucous opera, Nabisco, a sumptuous bout-de-souffle with a haunting leitmotiv that struck me as being highly reminiscent of the Mudugno version of `` Volare ''.

The sewer on Bonnet Street was constructed when there were only a few houses on the street.

A further example of the incompatible difference in personalities was when two policemen held up a Torrio beer convoy on a West Side street and demanded $300 to let it through.

It was a busy street, conveniently near the shopping center, and unattended horses and wagons were often left at the curbside.

There was a small, neon-lighted restaurant and cocktail lounge on the southeast corner of the intersection as he turned into the quiet, palm-lined street where most of the houses on both sides were older two-story mansions, now cut up into furnished rooms and housekeeping apartments.

In the street, walking as quickly as he could, Stanley Gilborn was a lone figure.

There was, furthermore, the crowd of curious onlookers gathered in the street and a couple more cops to hold them at a decent distance.

Once out in the street, the traffic was a gadfly maze in which he wandered stricken.

Failing to find what was wanted, as was most likely, check out other guests, with special -- but not exclusive -- attention to those with rooms on the street.

If Mahzeer was alone with the prime minister he could be arranging his execution while Hoag stood out here shivering in the darkening street.

How was he to suspect that an assassin had been lurking somewhere across the street waiting for just such a chance??

With a cop patrolling the road Muller would have to be inside a building -- if he was here at all, and not waiting for the prime minister somewhere between this street and the terminal building at La Guardia Airport.

Winsett is a quiet street with no taverns and was completely deserted at that hour.

Mrs. Eustis Reily's olive-green street length silk taffeta dress was embroidered on the bodice with gold threads and golden sequins and beads.

The newspaper's offices have been in the same buildings since the beginning of the 20th century, and therefore it is popularly known as " the Via Solferino newspaper ", for the name of the street where it is still located.

This article outlines the differences between Malaysian English or more popularly Manglish, the form of street Malaysian English spoken by most Malaysians and British or the Queen's English, which for the purposes of this article is assumed to be the form of English spoken in south east England, used by the British Government and the BBC and widely understood in other parts of the United Kingdom.

It is argued that the easier it is to reach a street, the more popularly it should be used.

That building was replaced in 1941 by one across the street on the east side of Centre Street with the entrance at 125 White Street, officially named the Manhattan House of Detention, though still referred to popularly as " The Tombs ".

Running down the center of the Ciutat Vella ( dividing the Raval and Barri Gòtic ) are the boulevards Les Rambles, popularly known as La Rambla ( in singular ) since they are continuous, like a single street.

The megalithic Kempock Stone, popularly known as " Granny Kempock Stone ", stands on a cliff behind Kempock Street, the main shopping street.

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the street was known popularly as Calle del Correo ( Post Street ) in reference to the post office located on what later became Perú Street ( the southern continuation of Florida Street ).

On Easter Sunday 1930, Sterling's romantic revival came to pass with the opening of Paseo de Los Angeles ( which later became popularly known by its official street name Olvera Street ).

The station's surroundings ( popularly known as the paradero ), are the main public transport hub to Toluca and northwestern municipalities in the State of Mexico, such as Naucalpan, Atizapán, Tlalnepantla or Huixquilucan, as well as a major connection point to several destinations within the Mexico City proper and it also serves as the housing of a large street market, which is known largely because of its poor general conditions.

The street is named for Jacques Cartier, a French explorer popularly thought of as one of the major discoverers of Canada.

The plaza became famous in the 1960s for its street fair, popularly called the “ feria hippie .” Over time, in addition to genuine artisans and craftspeople, the fair has attracted street vendors and merchants of a wide variety of merchandise.

Furthermore, the new development would re-link the street grid through the site, following the razing of a working class Sainte-Marie, Montreal neighborhood popularly known as Faubourg à m ' lasse in the 1960s to make way for the Radio-Canada complex.

On 25 February 1978, workers for the electric company were digging at a place in the city then popularly known as the “ island of the dogs .” It was named such because it was slightly elevated over the rest of the neighborhood and when there was flooding, street dogs would congregate there.

In 1894, " 17th Street " was renamed " Palmetto Street " ( later redesignated Palmetto Avenue ), but the canal continued to be popularly known by the old street name.

In the city, BUS US 131 is named Mitchell Street, after George Mitchell, but may be referred to as main street.

The expression kabukimono ( 歌舞伎者 ) referred originally to those who were bizarrely dressed and swaggered on a street.

Smoking PCP is known as " getting wet ", and a cigarette or joint which has been dipped in PCP may be referred to on the street as a " fry stick ," " sherm ," " leak ," " amp ," " lovely ," " KJ ( an abbreviation for ' Killer Joint ')," " toe tag ", " dipper ", " happy stick ," or " wet stick.

His first hit, released in 1987, was the single " Posse on Broadway ," whose title referred to a street in Seattle's Capitol Hill district.

The period in German history from 1919 to 1933 is commonly referred to as the Weimar Republic, as the Republic's constitution was drafted here because the capital, Berlin, with its street rioting after the 1918 German Revolution, was considered too dangerous for the National Assembly to use it as a meeting place.

One of the oldest buildings in the town is The Market Hall, which is situated on Hole In The Wall street, or Stryd Twll Yn Wal as it is referred to by Welsh speakers.

Street routings in San Francisco are more commonly referred to by their street names rather than the route number.

Apart from two of the jurors swapping names while leaving the courthouse, no names are used in the film: the defendant is referred to as " the boy " and the witnesses as the " old man " and " the lady across the street ".

There are also areas of deprivation to the north, sometimes referred to as North Kensington, or Ladbroke Grove, from the name of the street.

Tijuana is also known for its red-light district Zona Norte ( also referred to as La Coahuila after one of the main streets in it ) which features legal prostitution in strip clubs and on the street.

The area consists of suburban housing and a small business district along Alameda de las Pulgas, often just referred to as " the Alameda " ( literally, " Avenue of the Fleas ": in Spanish " Alameda " means a row of trees or a street lined with trees, which extends the length of the Pulgas family land grant — whose name means " fleas ").

The main street of Brazil is U. S. Highway 40, the historic National Road, which is referred to as National Avenue within Brazil.

Ninth Street in Wisner directly runs the route that Dutch Hollow ran, and this street is still referred to as " Dutch Hollow " by residents.

* Downtown, commonly referred to as Town, is the closest thing to a " main street " in Briarcliff Manor.

It is for this reason that it is generally referred to as Merton Church in older documents, and that there is a north door into the street as well as doors into the college.

Until 2000 there were no street addresses for the buildings in town ; the 60-odd buildings in Hillsboro were referred to by their owners ' names or their purposes.

* Musician Tim Rose lived on West 46th street, Restaurant Row, in Hell's Kitchen for a decade or more in the 1980s and 90s, and later referred to it as " skid row " in a song called " Because You're Rich.

The new location is casually referred to by staff as Sugar Beach, and is located across the street from the Kool Haus concert venue.

Children's street culture refers to the cumulative culture created by young children and is sometimes referred to as their secret world.

Unicycles with shorter cranks are generally referred to as street unicycles, as they let the rider keep up their momentum easier and do smooth tricks.

In the US, electric power is referred to by several names including household power, household electricity, house current, powerline, domestic power, wall power, line power, AC power, city power, street power, and grid power.

The main street in Mallow is called Davis St. ( although commonly referred to as Main St .), and joins with William O ' Brien St. outside Mallow Town Hall.

* A street in Massillon, Ohio is named after Gish, who had lived there during an early period of her life and fondly referred to it as her hometown throughout her career.

Neither were there any street signs guiding foreigners as no streets were officially named, instead referred to as " the thoroughfare running from the outer southern gate and up to the cross and the chapel " or constantly renamed after the most prominent person settled in an exposed part of the alley.

Several members of the Rothschild family had mansions at the western end of the street, and that part of it was colloquially referred to as Rothschild Row.