This refuge was none of her willing, but confronted with wet pavements and only some belated museum or Tube station for shelter, she was forced, for Ralph's sake, to face the discomforts of her own house.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
They had the spacious thoroughfare nearly to themselves, though the pavements were fairly dry now.
"The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols"
William Black
But hard, indeed, must have been the flag-stones to withstand the wear and tear of the endless iron-shod shoes that tramped to and fro these mere ribbons of pavements.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies