The road on the other side of the wall looked the same as the cobblestone surface on which Garric stood.

It had a cobblestone surface, which was remarkable.

The car began to vibrate on the rough cobblestone surface, but Angelo didn't slow down.

I peered through the gloom and made out a cobblestone surface, barely wide enough to keep the bus's wheels from skittering over the considerable drop at the road's edge.

The most visible example is the cobblestone surface of Liberty Street, neglected for many years and frequently cut open by local utility companies for repairs and resurfaced with asphalt.

But something of its elegant spirit will be recaptured this month in a restoration of its cobblestone surface between Broadway and Lafayette Street, now blemished with large asphalt patches.

In an act of medieval urban planning that would have benefited many an overheated modern city, the neighboring streets zig and zag randomly to prevent even a shaft of summer's white-hot sunlight from ever hitting their cobblestone surfaces, now worn smooth over the centuries.