Thoroughfares

The courtyard you are looking into is one of the main thoroughfares of college. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These free roads usually were the original routes, pre-dating the modern freeways, and today are welcomed options for those who cannot or will not pay the tolls by which the construction of the fancy thoroughfares is financed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For the moment, the main thoroughfares are clear (more or less), though the hilly neighborhoods like mine are still ringing with regular intervals of MEEEERRRREEEEEEWWWWWNNNNNGGGGG -- that is, the sound tires make when drivers realize they're tootling up a 21% grade* and the asphalt is covered with black ice. ❋ Moriarty6 (2007)

Now it chanced one day, whilst he paced about the main thoroughfares, as of wont, and was bending his steps right and left, he heard a crier crying aloud and saying, ‘Who will earn a thousand gold pieces and a slave-girl of surpassing beauty and loveliness by working for me between morning and noontide?’ ❋ Unknown (2006)

Even if the flood-likely areas were to flood, main thoroughfares will would be passable. ❋ Unknown (2004)

This highway is one of the main thoroughfares crossing the city from north to south. ❋ Unknown (1996)

And so, he started naming the main thoroughfares after the King and his family. ❋ Unknown (1987)

Here I am imploring you against living your life only on the main thoroughfares of language usage, scared that if you turn down the wrong alleyway and dangle a participle you’ll be set upon by the local prescriptivist gangs. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Yemeni security forces tightened surveillance around the city center by doubling up the numbers of soldiers at checkpoints that were already prevalent on some of Sana's main thoroughfares. ❋ Adam Entous (2010)

There are dozens of less expensive bungalows along both of the main thoroughfares. ❋ Unknown (1997)

In some parts all that was left of the thoroughfares were the cobble stones -- by which it was possible to trace streets for a short distance -- and the street railway tracks remaining in places for spaces of a hundred feet or so. ❋ James Herbert Walker (N/A)

The Aldwych site is on the two great highways north and south, and east and west, of London; Kingsway coming down from the north crosses this site and noes over the bridge to the south of London; the Strand equally comes down from the west of London and passes along Fleet Street and into the City, and Aldwych is at the junction of these two great main thoroughfares. ❋ Unknown (1914)

The information that I received from John Kaiser (ph) is that there has been a modified Amber Alert been given, and talking to other news organizations, I believe that is going to be a local, Riverside County -- because we have two major thoroughfares which is Interstate 10 and we also have Highway 60 that connects with Interstate 10. ❋ Unknown (2002)

74 Boulevard, drive and speed-way are almost unknown to the English, but they use road for urban thoroughfares, which is very seldom done in America, and they also make free use of place, walk, passage, lane and circus, all of which are obsolescent on this side of the ocean. ❋ Henry Louis (1921)