Once on
the street he was not at a loss as to the direction in which he wished to go, for he had tracked the two Europeans practically to the gate, which he felt assured must have given them entry to the city.
Their first impulse was, to clamber along the roofs of the houses, and, knocking at some garret window for admission, pass down that way into
the street, and so escape.
His room was an attic and as he thrust his head out, up and down
the street there were a dozen echoes to the noise of his window sash, and heads in every kind of night disarray appeared.
I do not love to hear of mobs and broils in
the street. These things were unworthy of the people when they had such a great object to accomplish."
Half
the street was in shadow, the other half brightly lit by the sun.
The trouble became acute at last in
the streets above Columbia University.
The automobiles on which they were mounted blocked
the street, compelling the soldiers to find positions in, between, and on the sidewalks.
The doors slammed behind them, and
the street was deserted, though here and there front shades were drawn aside so that anxious-faced women might peer forth.
The crowd had rolled back, and were now huddled together nearly at the extremity of
the street, while the soldiers had advanced no more than a third of its length.
Still, I must venture to claim one little matter of superiority in our manners; a lady may traverse our streets all day, going and coming as she chooses, and she will never be molested by any man; but if a lady, unattended, walks abroad in
the streets of London, even at noonday, she will be pretty likely to be accosted and insulted--and not by drunken sailors, but by men who carry the look and wear the dress of gentlemen.
However, in obedience to orders, he went into the "street called Straight" (how he found his way into it, and after he did, how he ever found his way out of it again, are mysteries only to be accounted for by the fact that he was acting under Divine inspiration.) He found Paul and restored him, and ordained him a preacher; and from this old house we had hunted up in
the street which is miscalled Straight, he had started out on that bold missionary career which he prosecuted till his death.
Gringoire, a practical philosopher of
the streets of Paris, had noticed that nothing is more propitious to revery than following a pretty woman without knowing whither she is going.
