The ape-man grinned and crossed quickly to the opposite side of the street, for his delicate senses indicated that at this point the breeze stirring through the city streets and deflected by the opposite wall would now blow from the lion toward him as the beast passed, whereas if he remained upon the side of the street upon which he had been walking when he discovered the carnivore, his scent would have been borne to the nostrils of the animal, and Tarzan was sufficiently jungle-wise to realize that while he might deceive the eyes of man and beast he could not so easily disguise from the nostrils of one of the great cats that he was a creature of a different species from the inhabitants of the city, the only human beings, possibly, that Numa was familiar with.
He had proceeded for some little distance and had about reached a point where he judged he would find the street which led up from the city gate when, at an intersection of two streets, his nostrils caught the scent spoor of the girl.
Tarzan the Untamed
So, when they had crawled through the passage indicated by the vintner (which was a mere shelving-trap for the admission of casks), and had managed with some difficulty to unchain and raise the door at the upper end, they emerged into the street without being observed or interrupted.
The general alarm was so apparent in the faces of the inhabitants, and its expression was so aggravated by want of rest (few persons, with any property to lose, having dared go to bed since Monday), that a stranger coming into the streets would have supposed some mortal pest or plague to have been raging.
Barnaby Rudge A Tale Of The Riots Of Eighty
And presently men selling unnaturally early newspapers came bawling into the street:
Unable from his window to learn what was happening, my brother went down and out into the street, just as the sky between the parapets of the houses grew pink with the early dawn.
War Of The Worlds
Others who were younger and less prudent remained in
the streets; for there seems to have been a presentiment that some strange event was on the eve of taking place.
Grandfathers Chair
Once more something whistled, but this time quite close, swooping downwards like a little bird; a flame flashed in the middle of
the street, something exploded, and
the street was shrouded in smoke.
War and Peace
A drift of cloud made the prospect of
the streets and squares hazy, and the rolling of the airship swung the picture up and down.
The War in the Air
We could see the front of their column filling
the street from gutter to gutter, as the last war-automobile fled past.
The Iron Heel
One of the men pointed into
the street, and several of his companions laughed.
The Valley of the Moon
They confronted the soldiers, not wholly without arms, and ready to convert the very stones of
the street into deadly weapons.
From Twice Told Tales
There are no street lamps there, and the law compels all who go abroad at night to carry lanterns, just as was the case in old days, when heroes and heroines of the Arabian Nights walked
the streets of Damascus, or flew away toward Bagdad on enchanted carpets.
The Innocents Abroad
But
the streets were becoming blacker and more deserted every moment.
Notre Dame de Paris
If I had been astonished at first catching a glimpse of so outlandish an individual as Queequeg circulating among the polite society of a civilized town, that astonishment soon departed upon taking my first daylight stroll through
the streets of New Bedford.
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