Washed boys in black and white, and girls in tender colours converged from various directions, making gayly for the thrilling gateway-and the most beautiful little girl in all the world, Marjorie Jones, of the amber curls, jumped from a carriage step to the curbstone as Penrod and Sam came up.
"Penrod and Sam"
Booth Tarkington
He paused on the curbstone to curse the bank, but a policeman told him to move along.
"Under the Skylights"
Henry Blake Fuller
In five minutes the dull noise of the curbstone market in Broad Street had leaped to a high note of frantic interrogation.
"The Woman in Black"
Edmund Clerihew Bentley