Mispaved

He had a hundred things to say about the old Rome and the new; about the hilarious old carnival, and the anemic modern thing which has succeeded it; about many things which were better in the old Rome and some things which are better in the new; about the miry, mispaved old streets of fifty years ago, where one stumbled and fell at night in unbroken blackness, and about the marvellous transformation which has been effected in the modern town by the electric light brought in from Tivoli, where the dynamos were worked by the "headlong Anio" which had been wasting its superb strength since the days of Horace.

The streets of Guadix are narrow and mispaved and steep, but in the midst of them is the cathedral, solid and ungraceful structure of the eighteenth century.

Cincinnatti a good city, regarded simply as a place of trade; the streets wretchedly mispaved.