At the nearestcrossroads to Glenside he turned, and Betty got out, thanking him heartily for the ride.
You're the skunk that scattered ground glass on that stretch of road between the crossroads and Miller's Pond, and then laughed when I ruined four of my good tires.
If I overtake you before you get to the crossroads I'll give you a lift.
Anyhow, I started off in my machine, and I hadn't got more than to the crossroads when I saw a fellow out tinkering with his auto.
The crossroads was as far as we could trace you," remarked Ned.
At the crossroads there is a bad road; but, fortunately, we do not have to take it, since the new road with the bridge has been opened up, so Major Ten Eyck says.
As they passed over the bridge and came to the crossroads by the woods, they were stopped by blind Jennie, who silently presented Bab and Ruth each with a small cross she herself had carved from wood.
They stand, these "markers" now, on hilltops and in deep valleys; by country crossroads and where main streets cut each other in the towns and villages.
We saw the trade lines from the far north bearing down to this wilderness crossroads with their early fall stock for barter.
And it was toward this wilderness crossroadsthat Esmond Clarenden directed his course in that summertime of my boyhood years.
The man said, "If you're bound east why didn't you hit the south road and cut out Grumpy's Crossroads altogether?
They took what was still in existence at La Targette, and the important crossroads there.
We all got to a hill 'bout a half a mile from the crossroads and stopped when we couldn't see nothing but thick smoke all over de whole place.
The plantation was about 9 miles north of Red Mound, close to Lexington, Tennessee, and about a mile and a half from Parker's Crossroads where they had a big battle in de War.
The crossroads where I slept last night--there was nothing, I think, said at the inn.
All was suddenly quiet,--a moonlit crossroads in Virginia, tranquil as the shaven fields and the endless columns of the pine.
Four hundred were on the lands of Nicholas Marsh, perhaps three miles farther down the Valley River, and the remaining two hundred a mile or two south of the crossroads at David Westfall's.
The blacksmith-shop sat at a crossroads under a fringe of hickory trees that skirted a little hill-top.
I was moving along in front of the drove, fingering El Mahdi's mane and whistling lustily, and I squared him in the crossroadsto turn the plodding cattle down toward Roy's tavern.
Early on the morning of Thursday, the 29th, a mass assault was delivered against the crossroads one mile east of Gheluvelt.
Each man knew those difficult crossroads well, which was necessary, we having to travel noiselessly without lights.
No doubt we had penetrated the advance line of outposts when we struck off from Rumburgh, therefore there only remained for us to turn back and make good our escape, which we did by crossroads in the direction of Bungay.
A Yeomanry corps from Dunmow was also not far off, as it had turned to its left at the crossroads east of Takely, and was by this time in the neighbourhood of Hatfield Broad Oak.
In a side street near the crossroads where the vehicles had stopped, a house and some shops were on fire.
No men were out of the trenches yet, though some were being killed there and elsewhere, at the crossroads by Philosophe, and outside the village of Masingarbe, and in the ruins of Vermelles, and away up at Cambrin and Givenchy.
Until 1879 the community at the crossroads of the West Ox and Centreville Roads was also called Frying Pan, at which time it was thought too undignified a name.
Fairfax County was filled with similar crossroads which gave an identity to each farming area and, with post office, blacksmith and general store, fulfilled the farmer's simple requirements.
If any of you has the sand to play up against the real thing, now’s your time, but this ain’t no crossroads proposition.
Well, just then some crossroads gambler from Mississippi come along the river lookin’ for blood.
One of the crossroads professionals dropped out, but the other one had a seven full, pat, an’ after the two planters had come in, he raised Pete another hundred.
The travelers had chosen crossroads in the hope that they might meet with less interruption; but at Crevecoeur, Aramis declared he could proceed no farther.
Nevertheless, as the crossroads offered him a better chance than any other place of meeting somebody, he stood still.
Andy grew so lonely and frightened finally at the ominous silence that he pretended to be lost at each crossroads to force Norton to speak.
He had been converted in a Baptist revival at a crossroads meeting place years before and became a preacher.
That was the word which must go back to Montreal, back to London, along the trail which ended here at the crossroads of the Missouri.
Coming to the woods a Military Police stationed at the crossroads told them: "You can't go into Breteuil because they have been shelling it for twenty minutes.
As they reached a crossroads a boy on a wheel called out: "Oh, they're shelling the road!
