From the night of the 29th to the morning of the 31st the rain fell in such torrents as to make it impossible to move a wheeled vehicle, except as corduroy roads were laid in front of them.
He was detained in his progress by having to repair and corduroy the roads, and rebuild the bridges.
It became necessary therefore to build corduroy roads every foot of the way as we advanced, to move our artillery upon.
Today I'm going to work on my corduroy purse some more.
I wore the "Tahoe" sweatshirt Jon had sent some time ago plus my corduroy coat.
The night was very dark and it rained heavily, the roads were so bad that the troops had to cut trees and corduroy the road a part of the way, to get through.
I'll 'low ye won't find travellin' too easy 'long the ole corduroy road.
That's on'y a circumstance to the jolts there'll be when we strike a bit o' corduroy road.
No more going in a wagon over corduroy roads for me!
In fact, it's only a broad track where the underbrush has been cleared away, and the trees cut down, with strips of corduroy road sandwiched in.
Hence the track presented a striped appearance, which suggested to some spirited genius among woodsmen its name of "corduroy road.
Speculations about the journey, and in especial about the corduroy road, were rife in the boys' minds during the forty and odd hours which elapsed between the Sunday service and the time of their start.
The logs of the corduroy road became very slippery when wet and if I fell flat once I did twenty times that night.
At eleven o'clock we had marched a distance of eighteen miles through the dismal swamp, parts of the way over a corduroy road in a terrific heat.
He was dressed roughly enough in corduroy and miner's half-leg boots, but these were of the most expensive material and cut.
We had marched all day on plank and corduroy roads, through this wild tanglewood forest, most of the time in a drizzling rain, and we had been much delayed by the artillery trains, and it was after midnight when we reached our destination.
We marched about six miles the first day, much of our route being through a wooded country, some of it so wet and spongy that corduroy roads had to be built for the wagons and artillery.
He showed her where the bills were pinned into his corduroy waistcoat pocket.
Also she made him sell iced lemonade and birch beer, which was well for thecorduroy waistcoat pocket.
His waistcoat hung open--he had laid aside his coat--displaying a broad stitched leather belt that covered the junction between buff corduroy trousers and blue-checked cotton shirt.
Those disgusting corduroy trousers have hung about his legs for so many months; all the ugliness of these labourers' faces and the solid earthiness of their lives are there; nothing has been omitted, curtailed, or exaggerated.
The common workaday world, with accessories of tin pots and pans, corduroy breeches and clay-pipes, can be only depicted by a series of ellipses through a mystery of light and shade.
It was noisy and bad and we grew aweary of it," said he that wore corduroy trousers.
They had pickaxes in their hands and wore corduroy trousers and that little leather band below the knee that goes by the astonishing name of "York-to-London.
He escaped to the adjacent railroad-yards, stole a corduroy coat and pair of blue overalls hanging in a switchman's shanty and caught the twelve-forty freight up Green River.
The stolencorduroy coat covered blacksmith's muscles now made doubly powerful by dementia.
The door is opened with difficulty and a little girl enters, carrying a pile of unfinished corduroy trousers nearly as large as herself.
LEMMY in her chair is a pile of corduroy trousers, her day's sweated sewing, and a small table.
He was bareheaded, wore a red waistcoat over a flannel shirt, and brown corduroy breeches, supported by a leather belt and somewhat creased above brown leggings.
He wore corduroy breeches much too large for him, big clumping boots, and a flannel shirt open at the neck.
One side of the stove at the table against the window, sat an old brown man with a bright red stain on each cheek bone, who wore formless corduroy clothes, the color of his skin.
Unshaven, with a check cap on the side of his head and his corduroy trousers, he looked like a young workman who had been out of work for a month.
Rosaline ran off giggling, and came back in a moment with a pair of corduroy trousers and a torn flannel shirt that smelt of pipe tobacco.
He was a stout man in a dirty white shirt stained to a brownish color round the armpits and caught in very tightly at the waist by the broad elastic belt that held up his yellow corduroy trousers.
The old woman had bought him corduroy trousers, cheap cloth shoes, a blue cotton shirt, woollen socks, and a second-hand black serge jacket.
High boots, corduroy knickers, a blue chambray shirt, a red necktie, these were her joy.
I followed along behind the Colonel down the road, down the corduroy boards, and out at the old moated farm not far from Wulverghem.
We looked back over our shoulders several times as we plodded along down the muddy road and into the corduroy path which ran through the wood.
The corduroy path ran out about four hundred yards across the grassless, sodden field.
The commencement of the journey from the farm of disembarkation lay along what is known as corduroy boards.
After one of these expeditions I would go on back across the plain, along the corduroy boards or by the bank of the river, to our farm.
Some of the men swinging corduroy and blue jean legs from the station platform evidently perpetrated a pleasantry; for there was a loud guffaw, and a shower of tobacco wads into the middle of the road.
The hostler, dressed in old corduroyand with a fiddle under his arm, sprang forward to assist them.
It would even have been out of my power to have taken the jacket off my body, for the wet corduroy was clinging to my skin as if it had been glued there.
But back in the Black Swamp of Ohio we had corduroy roads.
And as I hauled a wagon-bed full of apples to the cider-mill over a corduroy road, the apples sorted out by the jolting.
It is a corduroy road and the barrel shakes all the time.
