From thehighroad came the raucous singing of German soldiers, the falsetto of drunkards with an ear for music.
Give me the highroad and a wagon-team, and I'll face anything.
From Clamecy thehighroad crosses the Bazois to Chateau Chinon in the Nivernais.
Above the city, a dozen kilometres away only, rises the famous international highroad into Italy.
Winding its way between the confines of Burgundy and the Comté the highroad from Paris to Pontarlier and Switzerland led us first to Auxonne.
You must know the way to the highroad, for you came over it to-day; and you must know the highroad as far as to Canterbury, for you told me so when I directed you to this place.
Why, who would go so far from the highroad to rob such a rotten husk of a house?
Oh, we are some way from thehighroad here, indeed; but a foolish friend or so might turn out a mile for the pleasure of my company.
It was with more confidence that Barney gave the countersign here, nor was he surprised that the soldier passed them readily; and now they were upon the highroad to Lustadt, with nothing more to bar their way.
On the opposite side of the farm was a wood, and somewhere beyond that a small stream which the highroad crossed upon a little bridge.
No highroad penetrated this secluded spot, and hence it lay secure, while ruin and devastation raged at either side of it.
Nor general; but as the base of the operations is the Iser, they must needs guard all the bridges over the river, as well as protect the highroad to Vienna by Landshut.
Traffic, traffic," Lane had murmured enthusiastically, divining with his trained eye the enormous possibilities of the land, the future for the iron highroad he was pushing through it.
Sometimes a lane led from the highroad to where one or perhaps two houses were hidden under the shelter of a hill, removed still farther from the artery of life.
Were he a beggar, I would tramp the highroad by his side and go hungered with him.
As she passed over the highroad with her equipage and her retinue, or spent the night for rest at the best inns in the towns and villages, all seemed to know her name and state.
He did not reach a defensible point in time; his vanguard was defeated and he retreated along the highroad to Santiago, leaving San Martin to reunite his two divisions at his leisure in the broad Aconcagua plain.
The highroad to Santiago descended from the pass down a narrow valley, which, just in front of the Spanish position, opened into a larger valley running at right angles.
A network of light railways was built in order to bring up the vast supplies of ammunition, and from the railhead a highroad nine miles long and forty feet wide was constructed across the plain.
The mining village of Givenchy stands on high ground, and commands the highroad from Bethune to La Bassée.
We leave the highroad at La Boissière and keep straight on to the top of the Leux hill, whence the valley is seen.
The new gate faces the highroad of Estremadura, and was built under Charles Quint, 1550.
On the highroad between Posadas and Villaviciosa, seven armed men robbed nineteen travellers, and a party had the audacity to carry off a child of nine and hold him to ransom.
A circumstance arrested Ellangowan's progress on the highroad to ruin.
A chaise returning empty to Kippletringan had been stopped on thehighroad by a constable, who foresaw it would be necessary to convey Hatteraick to jail.
As soon as day dawned Jean roused her guest, produced his horse, which she had accommodated behind the hallan, and guided him for some miles, till he was on the highroad to Lochside.
Braine, on the ancient Roman highroad between Rheims and Soissons, had been a farm of the Frankish kings.
The first milestone on the highroad of Gothic art was the famous center of the nation's life, and the initiator of the new system of building was the maker of the nation's unity, Abbot Suger.
No sooner had he entered thehighroad than he saw P.
Grant reached the highroad just as Robinson and the men with the stretcher were crossing a stone bridge spanning the river about a hundred yards below The Hollies.
They made for the highroadtowards Vienna, and soon disappeared in the distance.
In less than ten minutes the man halted, and, waiting till I came up, he pointed to a gentle acclivity before me, across which the highroad led.
On they went, descending a steep declivity of the highroad to the bridge.
For a whole week after her instalment Honora was in a continual state of excitement and anticipation, and the sound of wheels and voices on the highroad beyond the hedge sent her peeping to her curtains a dozen times a day.
He felt resistance, whereas on the highroad he had felt none.
The situation that had existed at the time of our first and only quarrel had been reversed, I was on the highroad to the worldly success I had then resolved upon, Nancy was poor, and for that reason, perhaps, prouder than ever.
His had been the highroad of a fancied security, from which he had feared to stray, to seek his God across the rough face of nature, from black, forgotten capons to the flying peaks in space.
His name was Howard Spence, and he was on the highroad to riches and success, and she was to live in New York.
On the highroad his cry had gone unheeded and unheard, yet by holding out his hand in the wilderness he had helped another, bruised and bleeding, to her feet!
He might have been on the highroadto a renown like that of Chief Justice Marshall, and Honora had been none the wiser.
He ascended the bank, and regaining the highroadresumed his vagrant way.
It will bring you out on the highroad to Williton and Watchett.
Across the foreground of the picture ran the great highroad from Bapaume to Cambrai.
So once again I was driving along that stout ally, the highroad from St Pol to Arras.
The village lay off the great highroadthat runs from Arras and St Pol through Hesdin and Montreuil to the coast at Boulogne.
On through Chiusi, Orvieto and Viterbo runs the highroad direct to the gates of Rome, for the most part a fair road, but rising and falling from one level to another in trying fashion to one who would set a steady pace.
Here thehighroad is nearly flat, though truth to tell of none too good surface, all the way to Naples.
The highroad between Cesana and Rimini passes through the valley of the Rubicon.
The highroad now leaves the coast to wind around inland over the lower slopes of the Apennines.
One can go north from Lecco to Bellaggio by steamer, when he will arrive in the very heart of lakeland, or he may go directly west by the highroad to Como and take his point of departure from there.
One enters Viterbo, forty-seven kilometres from Orvieto, by the highroad to Rome.
On arriving from Florence by the highroad one passes through the long main street of Montevarchi, threading his way carefully to avoid, if possible, the dogs and ducks which run riot everywhere.
The highroad here climbs up the mountain of Portofino where the promontory joins the mainland, and drops down the other side to Rapallo, Santa Margherita, Cervara and Portofino.
At Vicenza the highroad is joined by another trunk-line from Padua, 32 kilometres to the southwest.
Over another fragment of the Appian Way the highroad now continues towards Naples via Capua.
Straight runs the highroad to Rome via Viterbo, or makes a détour via Montepulciano and Orvieto.
Then the gendarme said: "I have caught you on the highroad in the act of vagabondage and begging, without any resources or trade, and so I command you to come with me.
It was still deserted, so he jumped out and set off walking again, but instead of following the highroad he ran across the fields toward a wood he saw a little way off.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "highroad" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
