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1846 Laws State of Mississippi lxxvii. 265 To assess and collect a special tax for defraying the costs or expenses incurred for side-walk paving.

1856 H. B. Stowe Dred I. 24 She has..a taste for side-walk flirtation.

1865 Illinois Teacher Aug. 278 The kinds most extensively cultivated are the maple and elm... Nearly one-half have been planted as sidewalk trees, in double rows.

1870 Scribner's Monthly Dec. 114/1 The sidewalk dealers..find extortion a losing game.

1889 Syracuse (N.Y.) Standard 1 Dec. 2/5 Everybody, save the English and Americans, takes kindly to the French style of drinking. Sidewalk cafes are crowded day and night.

1921 Concrete 19 195/2 Coal hole covers are probably the most prolific source of sidewalk casualties.

1938 Life 5 Dec. 38/1 In his next picture..he plays a busker, a sidewalk comedian who entertains theater queues.

1959 T. Griffith Waist-high Culture (1960) ix. 115 Tehran, its streets vivid with sidewalk hawkers, the flow of filth in the jubes.

1974 State (Columbia, S. Carolina) 15 Feb. a6/1 The 43-year-old writer..had a sidewalk interview with newsmen.

1989 C. Long Life after City iv. 40 Stop to listen to the repertoire of the adolescent sidewalk saxophonist.

2013 J. Farmer Trees in Pardise iv. vii. 382 A neighborhood group pledged in writing to take care of sidewalk trees.