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.

Albion's historic brick main street — first laid in 1903 and reconstructed with hand-laid, kiln-fired clay bricks in 1993.

To this end, they laid out a plat and street grid that became the basis of Berkeley's modern street plan.

Chicago's streets were laid out in a street grid that grew from the city's original townsite plat.

Nevertheless, its exact position showed that the platz was starting to be opened out: the former hotel had mostly stood on a large flagged area laid out in front of it, indicating that the new building curved away from the existing street line ; this would have enabled future street widening to take place.

The Saxon street plan laid out by Alfred the Great is still evident today: a cross shaped street system which conformed to the standard town planning system of the day – overlaying the pre-existing Roman street plan ( incorporating the ecclesiastical quarter in the south-east ; the judicial quarter in the south-west ; the tradesmen in the north-east ).

The street, laid out in the late 1700s, was also the location of many of the government buildings.

She died at Tamworth, Staffordshire in 918, and was buried at St Peter's Church ( now St Oswald's priory ) in Gloucester, a city she had reconstructed from Roman ruins, and laid out the core street plan, which is still in existence today.

On May 27, the force laid siege to the Porta Termini of Palermo, while a mass uprising of street and barricade fighting broke out within the city.

The street grid of the city of Lima, is laid out with a system of plazas of which serve a purpose similar to roundabouts or junctions.

His plans for the city also laid out the street plan for New Delhi consisting of wide tree-lined avenues.

Cookstown's famous main street ( laid out from c1735 – c1800 ), is long and wide, one of the longest, and widest in Ireland.

Newton drew in the streets, laid out lots and later added street names.

The district's offices are located on Broad Street and the district's only high school, Lincolnwood Sr. High School ( shares building with Lincolnwood Jr. High School ), is located on the extreme east end of Prairie Street ( although the town is laid out in a slightly irregular fashion, making this street NORTH Prairie Street, despite the fact that it runs East-West ).

Sidewalks were laid, street lights installed, and water service begun.

A few houses were developed on the Moyer property beginning in 1904 with broad streets laid out in a grid and trees planted along the street.

The community was laid out in 1850, when Joseph Souder's land was broken up into building lots to pay his debts, with the street names matching those of Center City, Philadelphia-Market, Arch, Race, and Vine ( from south to north ), and Front Street and numbered streets from the Delaware River.

The four parks were originally laid out within city street grid in the 19th century were Church Square Park, Columbus Park, Elysian Park and Stevens Park.

The county seat, initially known as Charleston, was laid out in a T-shape formed by what is now Main Street and Everett Street ( the latter street was named for the county's first sheriff, Epp Everett ).

In 1793 this area was laid out into town lots and named Alexandria, with the street near the site of the log name Hartslog Street.