Lanes

Examples

• There was a jaded aspect on the business lanes and courts, and the very pavements had a weary appearance, confused by the tread of a million of feet. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She ever shunned high-roads, and sought byways and lonely lanes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It appeared to be a collection of back lanes, ditches, and little gardens, and to present the aspect of a rather dull retirement. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• From the coast inland, stretch, between flowered lanes and hedges, rolling pasture-lands of rich green made all the more vivid by th e deep reddish tint of the ploughed fields. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• For a while, I hid myself among some lanes and by-paths, and then struck off to walk all the way to London. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• It was shut; and as no one answered to my knocking, I went, by back ways and by-lanes, to the yard where he worked. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• They could plough lanes in infantry, but they could not easily smash and scatter it if it was sturdy and well drilled. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Away Caroline went, across some very sequestered fields and through some quite hidden lanes, to Fieldhead. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The children in the lanes here say he has sold himself to the devil. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• They carried him very gently along the fields, and down the lanes, and over the wide landscape; Rachael always holding the hand in hers. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• They were soon out of the little town, and running through the uneven lanes of the country. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• They travelled in silence through the empty lanes. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The lanes and alleys, which I could not enter, but only view them as I passed, are from twelve to eighteen inches. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• I skirted fields, and hedges, and lanes till after sunrise. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• There were many other views to be shewn; and though the weather was hot, there were shady lanes wherever they wanted to go. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• He vowed and protested that when Amelia walked in the Brompton Lanes flowers grew in profusion under her feet. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• They both seemed delighted with their drive; but said only in general terms that they had kept in the lanes, while the others went on the downs. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.

Typist: Tyler