The first need, however, was to discover a
street paralleling the northern wall along which he could make his way in the direction of the gate he had seen from the forest.
The vintner and Mr Haredale, unable to sit quietly listening to the noise without seeing what went on, had climbed to the roof of the house, and hiding behind a stack of chimneys, were looking cautiously down into the
street, almost hoping that after so many repulses the rioters would be foiled, when a great shout proclaimed that a parry were coming round the other way; and the dismal jingling of those accursed fetters warned them next moment that they too were led by Hugh.
He went to bed a little after midnight, and was awakened from lurid dreams in the small hours of Monday by the sound of door knockers, feet running in the
street, distant drumming, and a clamour of bells.
The town drums beat to arms," replied Grandfather, "the alarm-bells rang, and an immense multitude rushed into King
Street.
There is no longer a Popish tyrant on the throne of England, and by to-morrow noon, his name shall be a byword in this very
street, where ye would make it a word of terror.
She remembered the Friday night, after a City Hall band concert, when he had taken her and two other girls to Tony's Tamale Grotto on Thirteenth
street.
Tiring of the slaughter, a great herding movement was begun by the soldiers, the intent of which was to drive the
street mobs, like cattle, into Lake Michigan.
The
streets are extravagantly wide, the paved squares are prodigious, the houses are huge and handsome, and compacted into uniform blocks that stretch away as straight as an arrow, into the distance.
Any where else we would have been assailed by a clamorous army of donkey- drivers, guides, peddlers and beggars--but in Damascus they so hate the very sight of a foreign Christian that they want no intercourse whatever with him; only a year or two ago, his person was not always safe in Damascus
streets.
Now they would be low and close, and he would distinguish in that steep, unusual perspective, windows, doors,
street and sky signs, people and the minutest details, and watch the enigmatical behaviour of crowds and clusters upon the roofs and in the
streets; then as they soared the details would shrink, the sides of
streets draw together, the view widen, the people cease to be significant.
Moreover, for the purpose of thus following passers-by (and especially female passers-by) in the
streets, which Gringoire was fond of doing, there is no better disposition than ignorance of where one is going to sleep.
When the
streets were slippery with frost or snow that was the worst of all for us horses.
