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  • When officials began discouraging aid from reaching that camp, Tombeau took his $90 worth of donated tarps, wood and corrugated tin to the new camp on the side-street of Delmas 56, a rocky slope above a ravine behind a fast food joint and computer store.

    Haiti Housing Prices Rival New York, LA AP 2010

  • Almost everything she saw in the small boutique on a shaded side-street in the old city to which her sister had directed her was simple and light.

    The Empty Family Colm Tóibín 2011

  • I find the open window and leap out of it – no one is in sight (it is normal difficulty, after all) but as I creep down the back alley I spy some soldiers down a side-street.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Ben Abraham 2009

  • When officials began discouraging aid from reaching that camp, Tombeau took his $90 worth of donated tarps, wood and corrugated tin to the new camp on the side-street of Delmas 56, a rocky slope above a ravine behind a fast food joint and computer store.

    Haiti Housing Prices Rival New York, LA AP 2010

  • I find the open window and leap out of it – no one is in sight (it is normal difficulty, after all) but as I creep down the back alley I spy some soldiers down a side-street.

    Permanent Death, Episode 1: An Inauspicious Beginning Ben Abraham 2009

  • One man with blood coming out of his eye stumbled into a side-street clinic.

    Mubarak Supporters Clash With Protesters In Cairo By HADEEL AL-SHALCHI 2011

  • I perfected the system of driving our '65 VW as far down East Capitol St. as you could go and still find the very last free side-street parking spot.

    Political Football: Divided loyalty? Not quite Gov. Mitch Daniels 2010

  • In the reader's imagination these shards of place and time woven into the mimetic weft cohere into a sense of location, layout of objects, orientation of characters within that immediate frame -- at night, on a street corner, where a side-street joins a wide thoroughfare.

    Archive 2009-12-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • The Fables comics are an infinitely entertaining and moving series of comics about a world in which every fable, legend and belief of humanity has been chased from the worlds of fantasy to exile on Earth, hiding in a secret side-street in Manhattan.

    Peter & Max: the Fables comics jump to novel - Boing Boing 2009

  • When officials began discouraging aid from reaching that camp, Tombeau took his $90 worth of donated tarps, wood and corrugated tin to the new camp on the side-street of Delmas 56, a rocky slope above a ravine behind a fast food joint and computer store.

    Haiti Housing Prices Rival New York, LA AP 2010

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