foot pavement

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The main street, the rue Royale, can boast of a foot pavement, which is seldom to be met with in this country.

From A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817 With Notes Taken During a Tour Through Le Perche, Normandy, Bretagne, Poitou, Anjou, Le Bocage, Touraine, Orleanois, and the Environs of Paris. Illustrated with Numerous Coloured Engravings, from Drawings Made on the Spot by Fellowes, W.D.

By talking and writing on the subject I was at length instrumental in getting the street paved with stone between the market and the bricked foot pavement that was on each side next the houses.

From Franklin's Autobiography (Eclectic English Classics) by Franklin, Benjamin

With the bold assurance of their twenty summers, these young fellows took possession of the foot pavement.

From His Masterpiece by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred

Broad foot pavement raised nine inches or a foot above the carriage way, running along the whole length of the Street of Tombs.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)

Policeman Ellis, C 91, saw the Marquis, with two or three other persons and a woman in his cab, driving down the Haymarket, and committing the insane freak of making the foot pavement his road. 

From Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign by Ashton, John