They told the landlord and his people, trembling as they spoke, that in the road they had encountered a great figure of a man all over blood, whose head was like a flame of fire, and to increase the wonder, placed beneath his shoulder.
Long Ned was one of those superior beings of the road who would not for the world have condescended to appear anywhere but in the boxes; and, accordingly, the friends procured a couple of places in the dress-tier.
So far this book is less a picture of the king's highway than the law's royal road to the gallows,--a satire on the short cut established between the House of Correction and the Condemned Cell.
A gate in the valley, known as the Fish Gate, opened on a road which, leading from the north, went down the Tyropoeon valley to the southern part of the city.
If, on the contrary, the roadcould be carried over the diameter of the semicircle, it would be a straight and therefore shorter line, technically easier and economically better.
There are also carriage roads to Bethlehem, Hebron and Jericho, and a road to Nablus was in course of construction in 1909.
They had scarcely landed at the end of the lake when they saw in the distance the three figures they were looking for, strolling slowly along the road that circled the shore.
All around him were solitary woods, and the road that ran by the side of the railway was utterly deserted.
The great bronze woman sees the flash of arms and the waving of flags on the high-road before any one else, and something like a smile flits across her tightly-shut lips.
But you, my dear Philip Emanuel--" "Are you so certain that I am not on the straight road to it?
In his excitement he missed the road that runs along by the lake, and followed the side-road leading to the Seven Springs.
We have no other choice, and I know the road through the wood.
But a drunken hostler, who came staggering out of one of the stalls, muttered some unintelligible words and pointed to the road leading into the wood, though he could not be induced to give any more distinct information.
We hear sometimes in the House, and continually out of it, of the rate of exchange, as being one proof that we are on the downward road to ruin.
The Empress soon after invaded and conquered the Crimea, and on one of the gates of Kerson, its capital, caused to be inscribed, "The road to Byzantium.
One day we marched on the road from Monclova to Parras thirty-five miles without water, a pretty severe day's marching for infantry.
I look upon a road over the Alleghanies, a canal round the falls of the Ohio, or a canal or railway from the Atlantic to the Western waters, as being an object large and extensive enough to be fairly said to be for the common benefit.
There is no turnpike-road broad enough or smooth enough for a man so guilty to walk in without stumbling.
The road he pursued had been thus prepared for him.
Honest people subscribe to the stock and build them; then come along these "stock jobbing sharks," who corner the stocks and put the road in their vest-pockets.
Our road lay among the ant-hills, which could be counted by tens of thousands, of which I gave you a description in my "Apingi Kingdom.
One morning, before the people were up, I took the road leading to the spring from which the villagers got their water, for I wanted to see it.
We are poor; every thing we had has been left behind, and we have nothing else to do but go back to the sea, following the road by which we came.
I come to ask you the road through the Apono country.
So we pressed forward with the utmost speed, and finally our road lay between two walls of fire, but the prairie was clear of flames ahead.
I have ten miles more to make, and over a terrible road through the bush, with the horse up to his belly in mud and water most of the time; but with the Lord's help I hope to be safe at home before night.
Unfortunately this happy condition of affairs did not last long, for in March 1806, Joseph Bonaparte replaced Ferdinand IV on the throne of Naples, and the Jesuits again took the road of exile.
His successor was not so benignant, for he seized all the revenues of the houses and thus put an end to their existence in Prussia, and they, like their brethren elsewhere, took the road of exile.
After four months of hard work he not only had all the trees felled and shaped, but he had opened a road for thirty leagues over the mountains and with oxen and mules hauled his material to the coast.
They were always ready to stop at any part of the road or for any assembly and repeat their message.
Indeed, the troopers from Braga had to keep the crowds back with drawn swords, so eager were the people along the road to express their sympathy.
On the road they are held up and searched; the package is opened, and a letter is found in it reflecting on the king's legitimacy.
We have nothing positive on that score, though we know that one day he met a Moor on the roadand was going to run him through with his sword.
They will not remain in the road twenty-four hours after the embarkation of Napoleon, unless he desire it; for it is of importance, to depart as soon as possible.
Travot, with the rest of his troops, at the same time crossed the river Vic at Bas-Oupton, and closed the road against La Roche-jaquelin.
The Emperor, accompanied by his aides-decamp and a few orderly officers, on quitting the field of battle, had taken the road to Charleroi.
The whole of the corps of Vandamme crossed the Dyle, took Rosieren, and became master of the road from Wavres to Brussels.
His cavalry extended far in advance on the road to Namur[45].
It is a matter of urgency, that these commissioners set out to-morrow even, and that they take the road to Noyon, where orders will be given by Marshal Blucher to receive them.
The people who resided near the roadthey would pass had already made preparations for testifying their love and their respect.
The road was not a formal highway, fenced and graded.
John Weightman was sitting on a stone, not far from a road in a strange land.
Charlie therefore thought it well to leave the road before he reached the gate, and to take a slant through the fields that brought him up to the orchard fence about fifty yards behind the house.
No one knew where he was, for he had not said anything to his mother when setting out, and his father had gone up the road some miles and would not return until dark.
Although hardly in condition for a sprinting match, Squire Bibston had been renowned for fleetness of foot in his younger days, and he showed a surprising turn of speed as he dashed down the road after the fleeing boy.
To find the Perry house was no easy task, for it lay away off from the main road on a little road of its own that was hardly better than a wood-path.
If this confounded road was only in better shape, we might get there to-night," said Maynard impatiently that afternoon as the sleigh slowly toiled up a steep ascent, the horses sinking above their fetlocks in the fine dry snow at every step.
When he approached the farmhouse, he caught sight of his wife coming up the road that led to the nearest neighbour, about half-a-mile away.
Once we make that, I can find the road all right enough.
An hour or more is spent in rest and frolic, and then the return journey made by the well-beaten road with the shoes strapped upon the back.
All marks of the road were completely obliterated, and it would evidently test to the utmost his knowledge of woodcraft to keep in the right track.
Most of them take the downward road because it's the easiest, and comes natural, and after a time it's impossible to reform them, with a precious few exceptions.
That girl has travelled the downward road with awful rapidity since she came here.
She was content, with fine talents that might have won her a name, to be left behind upon the road to fame by those who were better adapted to the contest.
In spite of weather and poverty and hard work the ploughmen sang in the fields, the children skipped and whistled at their tasks, the passers-by on the road shouted greetings to the labourers in the gardens and vineyards.
The road descends steeply with long curves and windings into the Wâdi Beit Hanîna.
The road descends gently, on the other side of the hill, to Bethany, a disconsolate group of hovels.
But the Lady was indomitable, so we left the Patriarch in his tent, wrapped ourselves in garments of mackintosh and took the road again.
Certainly this well was here in Jesus' day, close beside the road which He would be most likely to take in going from Jerusalem to Galilee.
It seems as if it must have vanished into the pastoral wilderness and left us travelling an endless road to nowhere.
From terrace to terrace of the falling moor we roll along the winding road through the brumous twilight, until we come within sight of the black, ruined walls, the gloomy towers, the huddled houses of the worn-out city of Tiberias.
A slowly ascending road brought us to the hill of Mâr Elyâs, and the so-called Well of the Magi.
They wanted the same things, it is true, but they never agreed upon the road that led to them.
Their Chief, with step reluctant, still Was lingering on the craggy hill, Hard by where turn'd apart the road To Douglas's obscure abode.
I won't say anything about his afterwards, in Ohio, being found in the act of gracefully putting a bar across a rail-road track, for the reason that a stoker called him the rogue that he was.
Narcisse looked at him with startled eyes, as if a sharp turn of the road had brought her to the brink of a yawning abyss.
As if He had said, Such is our condition as Christians; this is the road by which we must go if we would follow Christ.
The main street of Silchester ran east and west, and may have been the main road from London to Bath; while that which crosses it at the forum was perhaps an extension of the Icknield Way from Wallingford to Winchester.
To secure Winchester, where they would be on the line of the tin-trade road (see p.
It may be noted that the earliest of post-Roman date are those still existing on the road between Cambridge and London, set up in 1729.
That the road existed in Roman times is certain, as London and York were the two chief towns in the island; and direct communication between them must have been of the first importance, both for military and economical reasons.
Footnote 295: The existing military road along the line of the Wall does not follow the track of its Roman predecessor.
The youth, however, contrived to flee, and post down to join Constantius in Gaul, slaughtering every stud of relays along the entire road to delay his pursuers.
It is the road called (near Andover) the Port Way.
For the assignment of the name Ermine Street to the Great North Road there is no ancient authority.
Intercourse was easy between the various districts; for along every great road a series of posting-stations, each with its stud of relays, was available for the service of travellers.
A third road led straight to Old Sarum,[228] and there may have been others.
The spot is "in Bourne Park, not far from the road leading up to Bridge Hill.
The Barracca roadis good--upon a par with those of England.
The streets were profusely adorned, road and foot-path strewed with flowers, leaves, and boughs.
A crowd of both sexes assemble round the doors, especially of the Cathedral, absolutely blocking up the road way, kneeling, counting beads, and in earnest prayer.
And if the first door I should open wide, The only locked one on this roadof love?
The road from the Castle to the church is laid with carpets.
The walls of the old town had hardly come in sight before such a mass of people was to be seen on the road that the horses were obliged to slacken their pace.
Can anything more senseless be imagined than to seize a man on an open road and drag him into a house known to be suspicious?
So acts the man who would deceive himself, And veils his glance, because the road affrights him.
Ay, since that's the road That leads the straightest from thy lofty hall To St. Lubin.
Many a distillery's flowed under the bridge since we were gentlemen; but let's forget the long road we've travelled since, and hit our doss in the good old fashion in which every gentleman went to bed when we were young.
Here I am with my three score and ten behind me, and back on that long road have I buried many a youngster that was as rare and devilish as I, but who could not stand the pace.
The road ran from sea level at Duran up to twelve thousand feet on Chimborazo and down to ten thousand at Quito on the other side the range.
And when Tarwater sold his holdings to the Bowdie interests for a sheer half-million and faced for California, he rode a mule over a new-cut trail, with convenient road houses along the way, clear to the steamboat landing at Fort Yukon.
He did not drive to Kelterville, but turned off on the main road south to Santa Rosa.
Long before the family stirred next morning, his horses fed and harnessed by lantern light, breakfast cooked and eaten by lamp fight, Old Man Tarwater was off and away down Tarwater Valley on the road to Kelterville.
The roadthrough Jamaica is clearly enough marked, as it is the beginning of the Plank Road that continues on to Jericho.
The road is macadamized most of the way to Babylon, and is at present finished about as far as Seaford.
From Seaford on to Babylon theroad is a good one, though not all macadamized.
At the latter place, and just before reaching Queens, a turn should be made to the right, and after crossing the track the rider will run out over a good road about seven miles to Hempstead.
A good bicyclist is careful of his roads, therefore when taking a header be careful not to hit the road too hard with your forehead.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "road" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
