On our way to and fro we necessarily passed through the town, which, with its Widish but not straightish chief street, I found as clean as Rome itself, and looking, after the long tumult of its history, beginning well back in fable, as peaceable as Montclair, New Jersey.
"Roman Holidays and Others"
W. D. Howells
She got down at the nearest corner, walked up a Widish street of narrow grey houses till she came to number eighty-eight.
"Beyond"
John Galsworthy
There is Nick Gunstone, holding his own gallantly, discreet enough to give "the swells" a Widish berth.
"Barren Honour: A Novel"
George A. Lawrence