cobbles

Someone was approaching over the rough cobbles—from the alley behind him!

The passenger set his band-box down on the cobbles between his ankles and counted out the fare.

I teased up the furnace, I leveled the fire, I dished the cinders in to thicken the heat, and I watched the cobbles.

"Now cut that out," he began; but in leaping, his feet struck the fallen barrel, and he fell backwards to the wet cobbles.

So long I would surely slip on my ear if I should ever again walk on anything but cobbles.