It was a warm summer afternoon of just such temperature as to invite the citizens who remained in town for a stroll abroad, and there was a world of people crowding the sidewalks of this metropolitan road-way.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
It was not an attractive place, with rickety plank sidewalks raised several feet above the street, towering telegraph-poles, wooden stores, and square frame houses cracked by the weather, and mostly destitute of any adornment or paint.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
Past the gravel were sidewalks and stores and further was a department store.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills