Roadway

Examples

• This class of bridges is usually constructed with chains or cables passing over towers, with the roadway suspended beneath. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• With the roadway and suspension chains attached, each tube weighs 1,100 tons. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The roadway hangs from these cables, suspended by 624 vertical rods. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Its span is 220 feet, the height of the roadway above the bed of the stream is 100 feet, and the width of the structure is 20 feet 4 inches. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In the roadway! Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• This affords the maximum of riding comfort by the elimination of all jar and jolt occasioned by an uneven roadway. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It was begun in 1857 and finished in 1864, with the exception of the parapet walls of the roadway, which were added in 1872-3. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He came across a retired field to her house, though he might have got there more conveniently by the roadway. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• On that granite pedestal a cast-iron pier was raised to a height of 100 feet, the level of the roadway of the rails. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The work of constructing a roadway for the troops was but a short matter, and, later, rails were laid for cars. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The people on the roadway murmured faintly with the discontented murmuring of a crowd. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• A bridge was then made with these trees to support the roadway. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• As the South Devon Railway has only one line of rails for the greater portion of its length, but a single roadway is provided on the Royal Albert Bridge. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The height of the central pier of the Britannia Bridge, from the foundation to the top, is 230 feet; and the height of the roadway above high water mark is 104 feet. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The Britannia Bridge, across the Menai Straits, was a triumphant response to the call for a new kind of suspended roadway adapted to the requirements of railways. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Many varieties of coal produce a quantity of fine dust which settles in the roadways, on roof, and sides, and floor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The trees and vines stretch across these narrow roadways sometimes and so shut out the sun that you seem to be riding through a tunnel. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• A plan has also been tried of spreading fine stone-dust in the roadways. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The bridge has a width of 85 feet, and has two roadways, two lines of railway, and a foot way. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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