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“I have always loved to sit in ferry and railroad stations and watch the people, to walk on crowded streets, just walk along among the people, and see their faces, to be among people on street cars and trains and boats.”

People Faces Walks Watches Streets Car Train Boat Stations Crowded Railroads Ferry Crowded Streets

Book:We are Many: An Autobiography by Ella Reeve Bloor

Source: We are Many: An Autobiography by Ella Reeve Bloor

“I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!”

Pain Sound Attention Music Streets Endless Sat Italian Opera Sheer Anguish Torment Obliged Crowded Solace Barren Inexplicable Crowded Streets

Book:The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb

Source: The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb

“There are gems of wondrous brightness Ofttimes lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare.”

Ifs Care Earth Lying Steps Knowledge Feet Streets Walking Busy Pace Jewels Crowded Careless Brightness Gems Wondrous Treading Crowded Streets

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“Life is like walking along a crowded street--there always seem to be fewer obstacles to getting along on the opposite pavement--and yet, if one crosses over, matters are rarely mended.”

Ifs Life Matter Seems Life Is Streets Walking Crosses Opposites Obstacles Fewer Crowded Life Is Like Pavement Getting Along Crowded Streets

Book:Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

“The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.”

Country Boys Streets Noise Crowded Filth Elasticity Country Boy Crowded Streets

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“But often, in the world’s most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the knowledge of our buried life; A thirst to spend our fire and restless force In tracking out our true, original course; A longing to inquire Into the mystery of this heart which beats So wild, so deep in us—to know Whence our lives come and where they go.”

Knows World Heart Desire Courses Force Fire Our Lives Mystery Streets Beats Originals Longing Buried Thirst Strife Restless Crowded Unspeakable Tracking Crowded Streets

Book:Dover Beach and Other Poems

Source: Dover Beach and Other Poems

“It seemed as though he gave way all at once; he was so languid that he could not control his thoughts; they would wander to her; they would bring back the scene,- not of his repulse and rejection the day before but the looks, the actions of the day before that. He went along the crowded streets mechanically, winding in and out among the people, but never seeing them, -almost sick with longing for that one half-hour-that one brief space of time when she clung to him, and her heart beat against his-to come once again.”

Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

“Vimes stalked gloomily through the crowded streets, feeling like the only pickled onion in a fruit salad.”

Feelings Streets Fruit Crowded Salad Onions Fruit Salad Crowded Streets

Book:Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)

Source: Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)

“There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.”

Three Bits Wedding Crowded Crowded Streets

Author:Princess Diana

“Numbers have dehumanized us. Over breakfast coffee we read of 40,000 American dead in Vietnam. Instead of vomiting, we reach for the toast. Our morning rush through crowded streets is not to cry murder but to hit that trough before somebody else gobbles our share.”

War Numbers Morning Share Streets Cry Murder Coffee Breakfast Vietnam Crowded Vietnam War Toasts Vomiting Trough Crowded Streets

Book:Johnny Got His Gun

Source: Johnny Got His Gun