cross-alley

Updated: July 1, 2025

It was during these excursions that Harry was more particularly struck by certain phenomena, which he vainly sought to explain. Several times, while walking along some narrow cross-alley, he seemed to hear sounds similar to those which would be produced by violent blows of a pickax against the wall. Harry hastened to seek the cause of this mysterious work. The tunnel was empty.

Jules Verne - The Underground City, or, the Child of the Cavern