Along the highroads the coolies even scrape the grime from the packsaddles to mix with this dross.
One sees the thing every day on any of the great highroads in France leading from the Channel ports.
There are eight highroadswhich cross the frontier passes from France into Spain, and two lines of railway, one along the border of the Atlantic and Hendaye, and the other following the Mediterranean coast to Barcelona.
Fifty years of it were famine, and on the highroadspeople were killed for food.
Mention is made of this simply because it serves to emphasize the fact that all highroads are not well-worn roads, and that there is a wealth of unlooked-for attraction to be gathered wherever one may roam.
Norman barons; but there are self-evident intimations at every turn of one's footsteps, whether by thehighroads or by the by-roads.
We keep an inn, as it were, in the very depths of Sherwood, but so far from highroads and beaten paths that guests do not often come nigh us; so I and my friends set off merrily and seek them when we grow dull of ourselves.
In front of them, one of thehighroads crawled up the steep hill and then dipped suddenly over its crest, sharp-cut with hedgerow and shaggy grass against the sky.
Inland towns traversed by the great highroads leading from north to south, or from east to west, were much frequented by the gangs.
Nor was the great bridge at Gloucester, since, as the first bridge over the Severn, it drew to itself all the highroads and their users from Wales and the north.
This showed that their prisoner was a man of gentle breeding and had no business upon the highroads at a time when every educated person was regarded as an enemy of the Revolutionary state.
They became a danger to the safety of the highroads and they were killed by the angry country people.
These three highroads cover completely the itinerary of Brittany, in so far as they follow the north and south coast and the country-side lying between.
At this moment it is difficult to tell whether or not they are to be given permission to go to the highroads themselves and there fight it out with their newest competitors.
Suppose that we were to begin the business of laying down light narrow-gage lines along many of the important highroads of the United States--not parallel to our standard railroads but in every case feeding in or out of them.
In Great Britain the railways already are moving toward a use of the highroads in direct competition with the trucks and steam lorries of the independent traders.
We struck out through a green, well-wooded country, avoiding the highroadsand ever going deeper into the forests of larch and fir that led toward the west from Uzmaiz.
The cheapness and ease of river travel have tended to check or delay the construction of highroads and railways, where facilities for inland navigation have been abundant, and later to regulate railway freight charges.
I would have sold all, worked for you with my hands, I would have begged on the highroads for a smile, for a look, to hear you say 'Thanks!
And she followed them in thought up and down the hills, traversing villages, gliding along the highroads by the light of the stars.
Many of his verses are in the earlier books of the Highroads of Literature.
At the same time the 7th Division between the twohighroads and Allenby's cavalry beyond the Ypres-Comines canal were being heavily attacked.
In the prospective construction of bridges forhighroads and railroad tracks across the continent, in certain seasons of the year, this sudden accumulation and explosion of water may cause trouble by sweeping them suddenly away.
From Brescia to Bergamo runs one of the best national highroads in Italy.
The great highroads proceeding from Rome crossed Etruria almost to the full extent; the Via Aurelia, from Rome to Pisa and Luna; the Via Cassia and the Via Clodia.
The doubt is cast upon the legitimacy of their pedigree from the fact that, out of some hundreds met with by the author on the highroads of Europe, no two seemed to be of the same breed.
But it has survived masterfully, while the highroadshave become grass-grown, and the once proud canals have fallen into decay.
The earliest of the very distinguished list of American bridge-builders erected great timber structures for the highroads and the post-roads.
Maryland today claims to have the finest highroads of any state in the Union.
In all these states there have been large expenditures for improved highroads during the past five years; many times under the guise of providing easy and inexpensive transportation for farm products to markets.
But these highroads instead of being built from the transportation centers out into the producing region, so as to serve the farms, have almost invariably paralleled steam and electric lines.
The two young girls were perhaps rather isolated in their part of the house, which consisted of a dozen bedrooms on three floors, especially at a time when so many rumors of robberies on the highroads reached them.
Happy those who can walk the highroads by daylight, Monsieur de Montrevel!
The approaches to Manila from the north were held by the rebels; Cavite Province threw off the cloak of pacification and sent fresh levies to invest the highroads leading from the south to the capital.
The assault was almost invariably made at night, and the marauders lived in the mountains, avoiding the highroads and the well-known tracks.
The wealth of the country to be developed by the construction of highroadsand railways.
In Cebú and Negros Islands they were permitted to roam about on the highroads and beg.
The highroads of the Pyrenees are a speedy and a short means of communication between two points, but the delicate charm of the region is only discovered by following the by-roads, quite away from the beaten track.
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