sidewalk-public

Updated: June 20, 2025

There were trees in the street where he lived, but they were all upon the sidewalk-public property. Over these porches parched vines crept the town's enthusiasm for horticulture went as far as that and upon them concentrated the feminine social life of the place. Of this intercourse the high tones seemed to be giggles, and the bass the wooden thuds of rockers.

Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale - The Nest Builder