At last, satisfactorily disguised, and with even his shock of black hair adding to the verisimilitude of his likeness to the natives of the city, he sought for some means of reaching the
street below.
There came a voice to a citizen of Damascus, named Ananias, saying, "Arise, and go into the
street which is called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas, for one called Saul, of Tarsus; for behold, he prayeth."
He had seen airships flying low and swift over darkened and groaning
streets; watched great buildings, suddenly red-lit amidst the shadows, crumple at the smashing impact of bombs; witnessed for the first time in his life the grotesque, swift onset, of insatiable conflagrations.
He went out into the
street: two men were running past toward the bridge.
We had a gambler's chance in the
street, but in here there is no chance at all.
A hotel would require pay in advance --I must walk the
street all night, and perhaps be arrested as a suspicious character.
So did a tall man on horseback who made a collection for the same purpose in Fleet
Street, and refused to take anything but gold.
As my brother began to realise the import of all these things, he turned hastily to his own room, put all his available money--some ten pounds altogether--into his pockets, and went out again into the
streets.
The young men, being Boston boys, felt as if they had a right to walk their own
streets without being accountable to a British redcoat, even though he challenged them in King George's name.
We shall see them at a Smithfield fire in King
Street!"
Olsen across the
street. "You go into the house, little mother that is to be.
Repeatedly during our ascent of the hill my eyes, I thought, had traversed the whole reach of that sidewalk, from
street to
street.