Marseilles harbour;' on his knees on the pavement, mapping it all out with a swarthy forefinger; 'Toulon
The other man spat suddenly on the pavement, and gurgled in his throat.
"Queer fish!" said Stepan Arkadyevitch to his wife, and glancing at his watch, he made a motion of his hand before his face, indicating a caress to his wife and children, and walked jauntily along the
pavement.
They stood back from the pavement, separated from it by little strips of garden-ground.
Doors opened, and people came and went, in the houses on either side; children by the dozen poured out on the pavement to play, and invaded the little strips of garden-ground to recover lost balls and shuttlecocks; streams of people passed backward and forward perpetually; heavy wagons piled high with goods lumbered along the road on their way to, or their way from, the railway station near; all the daily life of the district stirred with its ceaseless activity in every direction but one.
Everywhere are walls, walls, walls, and all of them tasteful and handsome--and eternally substantial; and everywhere are those marvelous
pavements, so neat, so smooth, and so indestructible.
Jerry of course came back to the stand, but in about ten minutes one of the shopmen called him, so we drew up to the
pavement.
Outside on the
pavement she stood for a moment, looking carefully around.
Away they fly, splashing through the mud, and rattling along the
pavements:
I wished to save her from the awkwardness, and as I hesitated what to do she looked up and our eyes happened to meet just as she was turning off the pavement into the hotel doorway.
At the junction of the two thoroughfares she stopped in the thin traffic of the broad pavement and turned to me with an air of challenge.
Whatever the creature was that had seized him, it apparently had a well-defined purpose in mind, for it walked directly toward the edge of the roof so that it was soon apparent to Tarzan that he was to be hurled to the pavement below--a most efficacious manner of disposing of an intruder.
He had been forced to accomplish it, however, by bending very low at each street intersection in repeated attention to his sandal wrappings, bringing his nostrils as close to the pavement as possible.
Now and then a drowsy watchman's footsteps sounded on the
pavement, or the lamplighter on his rounds went flashing past, leaving behind a little track of smoke mingled with glowing morsels of his hot red link.
Two or three theatres emptied a crowd upon the storm-swept
pavements. Men pulled their hats over their eyebrows and raised their collars to their ears.