"Back street" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... town, where the streets were thronged with country people who had come in for the Saturday market. They got along as best they could, walking first on the pavement and then on the road, dodging round stout females bearing baskets, avoiding hooting motors, and finally making a dash down a back street that led to the railway bridge. They clattered down the steps to the booking office, secured their tickets and rushed on to the platform. The hands of the big clock were at 12.45 exactly, the guard was about to wave his green flag. They were too late to look ...
— The Luckiest Girl in the School • Angela Brazil
... a back street of the lower town, they discovered a tunnel running into the cliff. At its mouth ...
— Through stained glass • George Agnew Chamberlain
... One front is formed of cottages of the best class, so fortunate as to possess a back door and small court, and these command the highest rent. In the rear of these cottages runs a narrow alley, the back street, built up at both ends, into which either a narrow roadway or a covered passage leads from one side. The cottages which face this back street command least rent, and are most neglected. These have their rear walls in common with the third row of cottages ...
— The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 - with a Preface written in 1892 • Frederick Engels |
