What is "areaway"

Usage examples of "areaway".

Across the street the voluntary shadow detached itself from cover in the areaway, and skulked after him.

Gave me a touch of the creeps, there in the black areaway after the match had gone out.

But, he reminded himself, an office that had soundproof walls, a peephole from the next room where an armed guard sat watching every move, and a rear exit to an areaway where a car always waited.

I guess, I heard Horvath yelling to look in the areaway, so I ran to the nearest window.

Across the areaway, a light came on, causing Monk to dodge wildly for cover, but it was only a curious neighbor turning on his light and raising his window shade.

They went past the rear porch, through an areaway between house and garage, into the driveway.

Instead, as soon as he had the wounded man in the wheelchair, he rolled him out of the drive, through the areaway, and around the house to the handicapped entrance at the far side.

She was just in time to see two dark figures scuttle out of the areaway between the house and garage, thirty yards from her, barely visible, noticeable only because they were moving.

He landed on hands and knees in the dark areaway in front of the brownstone house.

Holding tightly to Moe, he fled through the house and out the front - this time through a door that opened into the areaway under the dark slant of the high stoop.

Blackness of the areaway gave him a chance for a quick survey of the street.

He went down the steps to the can and killed the butt therein, and, ascending the steps, was barely back to the sidewalk when he saw a man dart out from behind a stoop, out of an areaway, and dash off in the other direction, toward the river.

Yet here he was, lurking in a dark areaway on a day of pouring rain, watching another man marry the girl he had loved and bedded.

A door he had tried when he had first taken up his position in the areaway and found locked.

In fact, he is so obliging that by and by he conies back and lets Harry the Horse and Spanish John tie him up good and tight, and stick a handkerchief in his mouth and chuck him in an areaway next to the office, so nobody will think he has anything to do with opening the safe in case anybody comes around asking.