Roadside

Examples

• Ezra Jennings stopped for a moment, and picked some wild flowers from the hedge by the roadside. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• One of the local policemen was walking along the path by the roadside. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• She did not look big with the cape and we would not walk too fast but stopped and sat on logs by the roadside to rest when she was tired. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• They were praying in frantic sort at the roadside. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Here and there, on the fronts of roadside inns, we found huge, coarse frescoes of suffering martyrs like those in the shrines. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• We saw rude piles of stones standing near the roadside, at intervals, and recognized the custom of marking boundaries which obtained in Jacob's time. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• They found a roadside inn, and by means of snowshoes all the passengers were taken to the inn. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The cattle may have a heavy load, but it won't help 'em to throw it over into the roadside pit, when it's partly their own fodder. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It ran thus:-- Your hellish machinery is shivered to smash on Stilbro' Moor, and your men are lying bound hand and foot in a ditch by the roadside. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He was the same as before with all the roadside people, but he looked graver when he sat by himself on the box. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Fine girl, Sir' (to Mr. Tracy Tupman, who had been bestowing sundry anti-Pickwickian glances on a young lady by the roadside). Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

Checked by Genevieve