The crosses, once a bustling spot, were deserted.
Rua Augusta's identity shifts again when it crosses Avenida Paulista — a bustling boulevard where pedestrians can be heard murmuring in an array of languages including Chinese, Arabic and Spanish — and descends into the old center.
The sounds: the rural stridulations of the chorus of crickets that live beneath the friction-heated rails in the St.-Augustin station, matched by the urbane "pardons" of the rush-hour commuters whose paths cross in bustling stations like Republique.
The production that opened last night at the Cort Theater, directed by Kenny Leon, has the crackle of a bustling comedy crossed with an old-fashioned melodrama, in which scenes end with surprise revelations or personal declarations of war.
The men were approaching Laredo, an old river crossing that had grown into a bustling hub of border country.
We cross the road bustling with people, cars and the newly installed tram, slither through a diminutive Almohad arch that pierces the medina quarter's ochre walls and disappear into the bowels of sinuous streets teeming with shoppers.
Turkish soldiers guard what was last week a bustling humanitarian hub and the main refugee crossing – kitted out by Turkish relief organisations, and the UN – is now barren.
Few, however, cross the Sola River to the nearby town of Oswiecim (pronounced ohsh-vee-EN-tseem), which in 1939 was a bustling Polish community of roughly 12,000 people, most of them Jewish.
She imagines Pompeii as a bustling, raffish town of 12,000 inhabitants, to which visitors came to gamble and have sex ("a cross between Brighton and Las Vegas").
