Wood Pavement

The application of human ideals to the Almighty places Him on a level with Kipling's "wise wood-pavement gods" or the Teutonic conception of ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The wood-pavement stood out clearly against the black ground, and above loomed the pale cloud-covered heaven, where here and there stars gleamed. ❋ Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev (1902)

I was going to get this berth; and sometimes I should be able to smell the wood-pavement on the old boy's errands; perhaps he would insist on skimming over it in his bath-chair, with me behind. ❋ Unknown (1901)

It was now past mid-day, and the tarry wood-pavement was good to smell as I strode up the Earl's Court Road. ❋ Unknown (1901)

It was now past mid-day, and the tarry wood-pavement was good to smell as I strode up the Earl's ❋ Unknown (1893)

It followed that, carrying insufficiency of ballast, the great red-painted vehicle lumbered, and jerked, and swayed uneasily; while the lighter traffic swept past it in a glittering stream, the dominant note of which was black as against the dirty drab of the recently watered wood-pavement. ❋ Lucas Malet (1891)

History, of people and of princes, finance, literature, the arts of every kind, were the phantoms that started up from the stones and the blocks of the wood-pavement and followed or fled before us at every step. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

The 'chumpine' being still alive within him, in the excitement of the moment he leaped the hand-gate leading out of the shrubberies into the park; the noise the horse made in taking off resembling the trampling on wood-pavement. ❋ Robert Smith Surtees (1833)