[…] and was then received into a magnificent high-backed chair, covered with orange silk, and gay with flags and streamers, on which I was borne on the shoulders of six electors, nodding majestically through all the streets and streetlings; […]
Source: wiktionary
The traffic had to flow round by Broad Street, St. Giles; whilst between Broad Street and Great Russell Street is the notorious St. Giles' rookery, of which Church Lane — a miserable streetling, running parallel with and south of New Oxford […]
Source: wiktionary
This, however, it was impossible in such a bustling thoroughfare to do; a fact which the scrambling and exclamations of the half-dozen streetlings clambering on the outer railings speedily brought home to me.
Source: wiktionary
Clean face and glossy curls must never frown upon little smutty, streetling publican.
Source: wiktionary
Showing 4 of 5 available sentences.