Highroad

Examples

• The noise was released, the little locomotive with her clanking steel connecting-rod emerged on the highroad, clanking sharply. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The highroad was now to be quitted, as the remaining distance to Hollow's Mill might be considerably reduced by a short cut across fields. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• One day she saw, at a place where the highroad crossed the distant valley, a heavily laden wagon passing along. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Then he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the highroad, where all traces were lost. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• He is fuller of boredom than a steer drawing a cart on the highroad. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The tolls for the maintenance of a highroad cannot, with any safety, be made the property of private persons. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Where they came onto the main highroad to Navacerrada on which the trucks were rolling back from the mountain there was a control. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The view was pleasant; a highroad curving round the edge of a low lake, under the trees. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• When he had come to himself he also arose, and, with the extinguished lantern in his hand, went towards the highroad. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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