The lower portion of Crown Square was devoted to tramlines; in the upper portion the Wakes began, and spread into the market-place, and thence by many tentacles into all manner of streets.
"Tales of the Five Towns"
Arnold Bennett
The weary way to Thionville unfurled before them, furnaces to the left and flat grass prairie to the right-little villages and clustering houses went by them, and Thionville itself, with its tramlines and faint air of Manchester, drew near.
"The Happy Foreigner"
Enid Bagnold