ill-paved

I dreamed I was going along a narrow, ill-paved street of an old-fashioned town, between stone houses of many stories, with pointed roofs.

Dream tales and prose poems 2006

“This creature” was even then hastening up the long, ill-paved street that led to the Hotel de France.

The Honor of the Name �mile Gaboriau 2003

The town is in all parts disgusting, the streets being narrow, ill-paved, and filthy; the houses tall and gloomy.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

The town is in all parts disgusting, the streets being narrow, ill-paved, and filthy; the houses tall and gloomy.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

She was beginning to feel the peril of her own situation: Two months demoted for insubordination and assault on a superior officer, she couldn't afford yet another pot hole on the ill-paved road of her career.

A Traitor to Memory George, Elizabeth 2001

It is built with perplexing irregularity, as will be seen even from our superficial plan, where only the main streets are given; but the intermediate spaces are filled with narrow, crooked, and ill-paved streets and lanes, their most disagreeable feature being that, in consequence of the soft yielding nature of the subsoil, the pavement gives way, and soon becomes inconveniently undulating.

Roumania Past and Present James Samuelson

The town itself is ugly and ill-paved, and heavy-booted dragoons make a hideous noise as they clank along to and from the cavalry barracks all through the day and night.

Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus

The Strand was an ill-paved street running behind the river palaces, past the village of Charing Cross, on to the royal palace of Whitehall and to the Abbey and Hall at Westminster.

The Facts About Shakespeare William Allan Nielson

We learnt how ugly ordinary small Finnish towns are, with their one-storey wooden houses, ill-paved roads, totally devoid of side paths -- how very like cheap wooden Noah's arks, such as children have; all straight and plain with glaring windows painted round with white paint, no gardens of any kind, while every casement is blocked with a big indiarubber plant.

Through Finland in Carts

The Bridge Street on the left bank was possibly narrower and ill-paved, but I am certain that the general aspect of arcaded houses was much the same as it is to-day.

From a Terrace in Prague Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker