principal street

But we took his recommendation to check out a youth pelota tournament that was taking place all week on a court right off 31 de Agosto Street, the principal street in San Sebastián’s old town.

Just as we reached the lower part of the principal street, we saw a man with measured steps approaching us. 

Now, the town of Hythe is composed, as every one knows, of one large and principal street nearly at the bottom of the hill, with several back streets--or perhaps lanes we might call them--running parallel to the first, and a great number of shorter ones running up and down the hill, and connecting the principal thoroughfare with those behind it.

Next to Gardd Street, which ran parallel with the shore, Pontnewydd Street, in which lay the Hafod, was becoming the principal street of the town.

The principal street, called the Chowringhee road, is lined for two miles with the handsome 282 houses of government officials or wealthy English residents.