The bandit was met on the highway and shot before he could utter a prayer.
Leaping a ditch we left the highway and traveled through the fields, stopping to gather a few pepper berries with which to decorate ourselves, admiring the many-colored birds flitting from tree to tree.
From hillsides, mellow mansions look down on the water that used to be their highway to the outside world, some crumbling, others proudly maintained.
The stone cottage that a town's founder built with his own hands two hundred years ago gets in the path of a new highway and is pushed down, and its rubble used for fill beneath an exit ramp.
It is the highway between Santiago and Monte Cristi, a distance of sixty-seven miles, and passes through the inland town of Guayubin.
The branches meet on the plain of Las Nasas, from where the highway continues through wooded lands and natural meadows, crossing the Jaina River three times and the Guananitos River nine times.
Along this ocean highway may be traced many connexions in ship forms which have survived from the earliest times.
Catesby and Dampier have both observed and described these habits, and it seems from their account that the plunderer may either commit highway robbery in the air, or lie in wait for the boobies as they return to rest.
The highway of the upright is to depart from evil.
The heart is a highwayside that all things travel through.
To walk in the light received, is the highway to more light.
This is the highway only, to depart from evil, not carnal policies, nor advantages.
One is fairly suffocated at times driving along the public highway on a bright, breezy August day.
We can only account for man and other higher forms of life surviving in the highway of the physical forces on the ground that the wheels and tramping hoofs missed them much oftener than they hit them.
As we were hurled along over the great highway the things I remember with the most satisfaction were the groups or processions of army trucks we met coming east.
The doom of kaiserism was written large on that Lincoln Highway in that army of resolute, slow-moving army trucks.
When I had passed through the besieging lines, I turned off from the highway in the direction of Heteny, that I might seek out my captive.
On the highway below, by the side of the ditch, lay a big black mass, the carcase of a fallen horse, and fighting over what remained of it was a whole army of crows and ravens and five large wolves.
The fugitive vehicles dashed madly along the highwayin threes and fours, colliding every moment.
Bud rode in one police car and Tom in another as a house-to-house search was conducted along the highway that ran past Enterprises.
Wal, then, how about truckin' him along the highway hereabouts, as if you all were sendin' him down to Washington?
The frightened Bob now gave Jim a truthful account of his stopping young Halliard on the highway and shooting at him.
The trees at the side of the highway swayed in the gusty wind, and, when the flying dust allowed them to see, Dick Halliard was observed far in advance like a speck in the distance.
No rain fell, but the wind blew blinding clouds of dust across the highway and into the stage, where the occupants at times had to protect their eyes from it.
About half the distance was passed when Tommy, who was slightly in advance of his companions, wheeled about and dashed for the highway again.
At length, worn out by his exertions, Revyngton reached a spot where a road branched off to his left, while between it and the highway he was following lay a large pond, surrounded by trees and fringed with clusters of reeds.
As he ran he could not resist the inclination to look back, and from the elevated position of the highway he could see the whole of the distance betwixt him and the cathedral city.
They reported that there was a fairly wide road which joined the highway to Caen about three leagues from that town, and that there were no signs of any hostile force in the district they had explored.
Their progress was slow, till on arriving on the highway Raymond made them take two broken lances, and forming a rough litter, they were able to make a better pace.
The monk took along with him six companies of foot and two hundred horsemen well armed, and with great diligence crossed the marsh, and valiantly got upon the top of the green hillock even unto the highway which leads to Loudun.
Such is a true picture of the king’s highway up to the building of the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
Indeed, we all came to esteem the mere breathing of the fresh wind upon the commonest highway to be rest and comfort, which must be felt to be believed.
It is traversed by the old highway between Philadelphia and New York, laid out by direction of royalty in colonial days, and protected at various points by barracks, in which troops were garrisoned.
Every mile of the old highway is now a splendid gravel turnpike, intersected by a dozen similar roads, which stretch away up into the country.
This lofty highway of Napoleon's, above the sea, is the finest foot excursion in Italy.
Even now, away from the old towns and villages, the clean, white highway winds among forests of pine trees whose resinous odor is delightful to the senses.
A little white highway winds up to the village from the lake, while the rest of the roads are simple, narrow goat paths.
Still in a fog, the three cadets climbed into the back seat, flopping into the soft cushions with audible groans as the cab shot away from the hotel and sped into the main highwaywhich led to the spaceport.
The cab turned abruptly off the main highway and began twisting through a section of the city shunned by the average Venusian citizen.
Highway robbery," said the wise men, "is neither good nor bad in itself; it depends on circumstances.
Observe, that if highway robbery presents some difficulties of execution, it has also certain advantages which are not found in the tariff robbery.
The greater number of highway robberies in the Border, however, were accomplished without the aid of a horse or the disguise of a crape mask.
In the gloaming, when trees stand out in the semblance of highway robbers, and a Liddesdale drow meets a North Sea haar, his sorrowful spirit was wont to be seen by the lonely traveller, making moan, seeking rest.
When this was done we had nothing with which to occupy our attention, save the task of keeping watch over the highway to make certain the enemy did not pass without our knowledge.
The rendezvous is near Chapel Hill, where the highway crosses the New Hope River.
These would, of course, be land smugglers--Burwash being on a highway convenient for the gentlemen between the coast and the capital.
Malacca to begin with, in at daylight and out at dusk, to cross over with a rigid phosphorescent wake thishighway of the Far East.
Mind, I can't say that it's impossible for one of us to be the Highway murderer in his B.
Now those poor people on the Highway had their heads smashed to pieces by what must have been a storm of blows.
Some years ago thirty-seven or thirty-eight years ago as a matter of fact--I had something to do with a case which on the face of it had a strong likeness to the Highway murder.
I do not know that I have made it plain that the old Roman road called the Highway follows the course of a long, steep hill that goes steadily westward till it slants down and droops towards the sea.
Those poor folks on the Highway weren't stung by bees or worried by a dog.
On the night of the Highway murder this camp, as it appeared afterwards, was the scene of the extraordinary panic of the horses.
And how about the Williams's who were murdered on the Highway near here?
It related to the murder of the Williams family on the Highway in front of their cottage door.
As to the Highway case, you remember that Thomas Evans said that he stopped and talked to Williams on the night of the murder.
This may be the highway of philanthropy and to be travelled in the interest of social helpfulness, but it is not all the roads labor reform must use.
He used to go on the highway and rob rich wayfarers; and other times he would swoop down from his high castle on the hills of the Neckar and capture passing cargoes of merchandise.
In our day it would be immoral to go on the highway to get bricks for a church, but it was no sin in the old times.
For several days the troops had to break their way through a rough country, but about fifteen miles south of the Kansas River they struck the Santa Fe road, a broad, well marked, natural highway running toward the southwest.
Preparations to make an assault were continued; and, as Mexicans from the south were now said to be approaching, a detachment went about three miles up the Saltillo highway to a strong position.
A triangular block of rugged hills lay thus between this road, the highway and the river, the northeastern corner of which (called Sacramento Hill) almost reached the solid adobe buildings of Sacramento hacienda near the ford.
On the other side of the highway flowed the Santa Catarina, passing by the city and joining the San Juan some distance below.
Probably more than one hundred Mexicans had been killed or wounded, while our own casualties appear to have numbered about a dozen, and the way to the Saltillo highway lay open.
Immediately west of this hill, what was known as the Topo road left the Saltillo highway and struck off toward one's right, and near the farther edge of this road a spur of the mountain began to ascend.
