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How it contrasts with hot and perspiring pedestrianism, and dusty and deafening railroad rush, and tedious jolting behind tired horses over blinding white roads! [5]
Little Miss Dolly was often at the Hall after that happy week we spent together; and her home, Wilmot House, was scarce three miles across wood and field by our plantation roads. [9]
It seemed almost too steep to climb, but a practised eye could see from a distance the zigzag lines of the sheep-paths which scaled it like miniature Alpine roads. [6]
She had taken to riding now with General Armour on the country roads. [11]
He was left to be buried with a stake through his heart in the centre of four lonely roads. [12]
And at length the bark cast off again, amidst jeers and threats, and one-third of her crew missing, and drifted slowly back to the roads. [9]
The fences were taken down so as to make a passage across the fields, and the tracks worn within the last few days looked like old roads. [6]
The first to speak was General Armfeldt who, to meet the difficulty that presented itself, unexpectedly proposed a perfectly new position away from the Petersburg and Moscow roads. [2]
It is distant some forty to forty-five miles, too long a journey for one day over such roads. [4]
There are many short roads running out of Boston that do fully half as much; a great many such roads. [5]

Sentences containing roads two or more times

The only difference between the roads and the surrounding country, perhaps, is that there are rather more rocks in the roads than in the surrounding country. [5]

More example sentences with the word roads in them

Without that it would be unable to develop its mines, build its roads, work to advantage and without great waste its fruitful land, establish manufactures or enter upon a prosperous industrial career. [5]
He felt a wish to speak to the stranger, but by the time he had made up his mind to ask him a question about the roads, the traveler had closed his eyes. [2]
The young Doctor, who knew the roads better than any of us, was to be our pilot. [6]
The corduroy roads which our horses stumble over through the mud, they make as well as march on. [9]
Hence, the roads which are open to the soul, are numberless as those of the divinity. [10]
He told me when the roads forked I must take the right hand, and five mile would fetch me to Goshen. [5]
He was there when our cavalry cut the roads in that vicinity. [7]
The alternate sections were to be given for the purpose of constructing roads, and the reserved sections were to be enhanced in value in consequence. [7]
Beyond Smolensk there were several different roads available for the French, and one would have thought that during their stay of four days they might have learned where the enemy was, might have arranged some more advantageous plan and undertaken something new. [2]
The further we went the worse the roads were, and yet when my companions turned at the city-gate to ride homewards again, a strange, fierce confidence came upon me. [10]
In the mountain villages of Switzerland, and along the roads, one has always the roar of the torrent in his ears. [5]
The Honourable Hilary Vane bore away from the residence of his emperor a great many memoranda in an envelope, and he must have sighed as he drove through the leafy roads for Mr. Hamilton Tooting, with his fertile mind and active body. [9]
It is made up of very simple details--just grass, and trees, and shrubs, and roads, and hedges, and gardens, and houses, and vines, and churches, and castles, and here and there a ruin--and over it all a mellow dream-haze of history. [5]
It was muddy under foot, but it was a country where the roads soon dried, and he would suffer little inconvenience from the storm. [11]
These are only two roads to the same goal, and "popular sovereignty" is just as sure and almost as short as the other. [7]
She had lived twenty-five years at Geneva, where people, years ago, coming over the dusty and hot roads of France, used to faint away when they first caught sight of the Alps. [4]
I was tempted to say: "You and Mr. Allen should know these roads rather well, Miss Thorn. [9]
I shall refer to it in the Legislature on the question of roads and bridges--there ought to be a stone fence on that dangerous road by the Red Ravine--Have I your attention? [11]
All can recur to instances of this difficulty in the case of county roads, bridges, and the like. [7]
As he drove through the silent forest roads on his way homeward that afternoon, the Honourable Hilary revolved the new and intensely disagreeable fact in his mind as to how he should treat a prodigal who had attempted manslaughter and was a fugitive from justice. [9]
As they drove through the roads and in and out of the well-kept places, everybody they met had a bow and a smile for her friend--a greeting such as people give to those for whom they have only good-will. [9]
They seem endless, through odorous pine woods and shady lanes, by private roads among beautiful villas and exquisite grounds, with evidences everywhere of wealth to be sure, but of individual taste and refinement. [4]
In the beginning they tried idiots; then they imported the French--which was going backwards, you see; now it runs the roads itself--which is going backwards again, you see. [5]
Year by year these accommodations will increase, new roads around the gorges will open more enchanting views, and it is not improbable that the species of American known as the "summer boarder" will have his highest development and apotheosis in these mountains. [4]
To be sure, there is a lovely little lake and a pretty artificial cascade, and the roads and walks are good; but the trees are all saplings, and nearly all the "wood" is a thicket of small stuff. [4]
The roads over there are not so very sensitive; paraschites and other unclean folks pass over them every day. [10]
Nicholas, who, as the roads were in splendid condition, wanted to take them all for a drive in his troyka, proposed to take with them about a dozen of the serf mummers and drive to "Uncle's. [2]
Immediately afterward all the roads and avenues to this city were obstructed, and the capital was put into the condition of a siege. [7]
Everyone--the stagecoach driver, the post-house overseers, the peasants on the roads and in the villages--had a new significance for him. [2]
That movement from the Nizhni to the Ryazan, Tula, and Kaluga roads was so natural that even the Russian marauders moved in that direction, and demands were sent from Petersburg for Kutuzov to take his army that way. [2]
The cold set the miry roads like cement, in ruts and ridges. [9]
First and last, the Marches did a good deal of travel on the Elevated roads, which, he said, gave you such glimpses of material aspects in the city as some violent invasion of others' lives might afford in human nature. [8]
Such products of the country as are to be consumed where they are produced need no roads or rivers, no means of transportation, and have no very proper connection with this subject. [7]
The ships containing the advance guard of the colonists destined for the new Louisiana lay in the roads at Dunkirk, their anchors ready to weigh,--three thousand men, three thousand horses, for the Man did things on a large scale. [9]
Mrs. Pomfret will tell you how he means to cover the State with good roads next year, and take a house in Washington the year after. [9]
The roads are swarming with monks. [10]
One of them suggested that butcher-knives would answer the purpose, and the other accepted the suggestion; the result was that Roads fell to the floor with a gash in his abdomen that may or may not prove fatal. [5]
It is not subdued by all the roads and rails and scientific forces. [4]
But main roads stretch a long, long way. [12]
The roads, the streets, the dwellings, the people, the clothes--this neatness extends to everything that falls under the eye. [5]
He thought it strange afterwards, as he drove along the dark roads, that she had not answered him. [9]
Then began the stir abroad, and the efforts to open up communication through roads, or fields, or wherever paths could be broken, and the ways to the meeting-house first of all. [4]
At the railway station at Darjeeling you find plenty of cab-substitutes --open coffins, in which you sit, and are then borne on men's shoulders up the steep roads into the town. [5]
Fifty years later stage-wagons ran, with some regularity, between London and Liverpool; and before the close of the seventeenth century the stagecoach, a wonderful invention, which had been used in and about London since 1650, was placed on three principal roads of the kingdom. [4]
The forests are spider-webbed with these good roads, they go everywhere; but for the help of the guide-boards, the stranger would not arrive anywhere. [5]
The roads were sometimes good, and sometimes as execrable as a colonial byway in winter, with mud up to the axles. [9]
The villages were small, the roads pretty generally wretched save in summer, and from many of the fields the most abundant crop that could be gathered was that of stones. [4]
A thaw had set in, it was muddy and cold, the ice on the river broke, and the roads became impassable. [2]
It must have seemed so to Rome when its solid roads of stone ran to all parts of a tributary world--the highways of the legions, her ministers, and of the wealth that poured into her treasury. [4]
Late on the second day I beheld again the cliffs that mark the mouth of the Severn, then the sail-dotted roads and the roofs of Annapolis. [9]
Boone, the county seat of Watauga County, was our destination, and, ever since morning, the guideboards and the trend of the roads had notified us that everything in this region tends towards Boone as a center of interest. [4]
The roads from Sardis and from Phoenicia meet there, and, as I was sitting very weary in the little wood before the station, a traveller arrived with the royal post-horses, and I saw at once that it was the former commander of the Greek mercenaries. [10]
We have a row boat and some bicycles, and good roads, and no visitors. [5]
Ready to make roads, throw up works, tear up railroads, or hew out and build wooden bridges; or, best of all, to go for the Johnnies under hot sun or heavy rain, through swamp and mire and quicksand. [9]
The woods and roads were similar to those at Heidelberg, but not so bewitching. [5]
Such hard, excellent roads to drive over are not to be found elsewhere out of Europe. [5]
How are the roads to Delft? [10]
There are many roads scattered about the Union that do a prodigious passenger business. [5]
He found the roads heavy, and the injury of the storm was everywhere to be seen. [11]
I suppose that roads and woods which are up to the Heidelberg mark are rare in the world. [5]
If I remember rightly, we passed high above wagon roads or through tunnels under them, but never crossed them on their own level. [5]
The light was restored to her in Baden the 5th of January, 1839 We made several excursions on foot to the neighboring villages, over winding and beautiful roads and through enchanting woodland scenery. [5]
The quantity of refuse, broken, and rotten mica piled up about the factories is immense, and all the roads round about glisten with its scales. [4]
Drove, albeit, in procession along the roads, grimly enough, and the sheds Jock Hallowell had built around the meeting-house could not hold the horses; they lined the fences and usurped the hitching posts of the village street, and still they came. [9]
Thither the queen proceeded, still escorted through the mountain roads by the Marques of Cadiz. [4]
My attention, as president of all the roads, has been divided. [9]
I should have preferred the open roads north of Bedford House. [9]
The kingdom of Persia was indebted for these inns (similar to the post-stations of modern days) to Cyrus, who had endeavored to connect the widely-distant provinces of his immense dominions by a system of well-kept roads, and a regular postal service. [10]
Peter Dick threw pepper in Charles Roads's eyes; Roads demanded an apology; Dick refused to give it, and it was agreed that a duel was inevitable, but a difficulty arose; the parties had no pistols, and it was too late at night to procure them. [5]
We farm them out and compel them to earn money for the State by making barrels and building roads. [5]
The clerk of our boat was a steamboat clerk before these roads were built. [5]
My men had orders to strike across country, avoiding roads, and establishing connection with any considerable towns whose lights betrayed their presence, and leaving experts in charge. [5]
At this season one meets them on all the roads, driving from farm to farm in lumber wagons, carrying into the dull rural life their slang, and "Captain Jinks" songs, and shocking free manners. [4]
That will give one an appreciable idea of those matchless roads. [5]
I've seen lights on the hills, and drunken rioters in the roads and behind hedges, and once a shot was fired at me; but here I am, safe and sound, carrying out my orders. [11]
Here and there on the country roads we found lemon, papaw, orange, lime, and fig trees; also several sorts of palms, among them the cocoa, the date, and the palmetto. [5]
In my diary of those days I find this: "We took a long drive yesterday around about the lovely country roads. [5]
The summer homes of these refugees are sprinkled, a mile apart, among the forest-clad hills, with access to each other by firm smooth country roads which are so embowered in dense foliage that it is always twilight in there, and comfortable. [5]
We also spoke of the weather and the roads. [5]
Then they spoke of the weather and the roads. [5]
Travel on any of the roads was unsafe. [4]
Everywhere were signs of preparation, for the roads are getting dry, and the General preparing for a final campaign against Lee. [9]
He would then not unfrequently walk out alone in the common roads, or climb up the sides of The Mountain, which seemed to be one of his favorite resorts. [6]
They had made no other stoppages, but the weather continued rough, and the roads were often steep and heavy. [12]
The country recalled New England, or what New England might be, if it were cultivated and adorned, and had good roads and no fences. [4]
The pass is narrow, walled in on each side by precipices of granite, and blocked up with bowlders and fallen trees, and beset with pitfalls in the roads ingeniously covered with fair-seeming moss. [4]
She and Caracalla must go on divergent roads, Her duty now was to fight for her own happiness against any who threatened it, and, above all, against the tyrant who had compelled her, innocent as she was, to hide like a criminal. [10]
Your army must move now, while the roads are good. [7]
It's only four miles--that isn't much in an automobile, and the roads are good now. [9]
Perhaps the most melancholy spectacle offered to us in our short sojourn in this pilgrimage, where the roads are so dusty and the caravansaries so ill provided, is the credulity of this pursuit. [4]
Irene and Mr. Meigs rode in the carriage in advance of his, and King thought the scenery about the tamest he had ever seen, the roads bad, the horses slow. [4]
Suppose we reach Maple Valley without an attack, will we not be attacked there in force by the enemy marching by the several roads from Manassas; and if so, what? [7]
Bermuda roads are made by cutting down a few inches into the solid white coral--or a good many feet, where a hill intrudes itself--and smoothing off the surface of the road-bed. [5]
Uarda's father often looked at him with admiration, and said: "One might think the Mohar, with whom I often travelled these roads, had risen from the dead. [10]
But when you look at the combinations, and the dropping-off of roads that have been drained, and the scaling down in refunding, and the rearranging, and the strikes, how much chance do you think the small fry stand? [4]
A hundred roads lie before me, when they don't know whether to go out or in; and where they rush heedlessly forwards I see the abyss that they are running to. [10]
The news had leaked out and gone abroad that the inspired Virgin of Vaucouleurs was making for the King with an escort, and all the roads were being watched now. [5]
Rome sent her laws and her roads to the end of the earth, and made an empire of it; but it was an empire of barbarians largely, of dynasties rather than of peoples. [4]
There is a large Trappist monastery two hours from Durban, over the country roads, and in company with Mr. Milligan and Mr. Hunter, general manager of the Natal government railways, who knew the heads of it, we went out to see it. [5]
In my time it was a beautiful little town, made up of snow-white wooden cottages deliciously smothered in tropical vines and flowers and trees and shrubs; and its coral roads and streets were hard and smooth, and as white as the houses. [5]

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