Since Chaucer was alive and hale No man has walked along our roads with step So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse.
As he breathed, there was that sort of flicker over his nostrils that you see over our chalk roads on a baking windless day in summer.
On either side of the logging roads the snow piled so high as to form a kind of rampart.
Other bodies of timber promising a return of ten thousand dollars were not to be found near the river, and time now lacked for the cutting of roads to more distant forties.
They set about clearing their banking ground about a half mile below the first dam; and during the six weeks before snow-fall cut three short roads of half a mile each.
When the breakfast was over the crew were set to making skidways and travoy roadson eight.
Now it became necessary to put the roads in shape for hauling.
To him there was really nothing interesting in the cutting of roads nor the clearing of streams.
Thorpe set them to work near the river, cutting roads along the lines he had blazed to the inland timber on seventeen and nineteen.
He gathered a crew, established his camp, and began at once to cut roads through the country he had already blazed on his former trip.
The jobber, of course, pushed his roads as rapidly as possible, but was greatly handicapped by lack of men.
Approximately two million feet would be put in from these--roads which could be extended in years to come--while another million could be travoyed directly to the landing from its immediate vicinity.
He realized the absolute necessity of skidding and hauling this job before the heavy choking snows of the latter part of January should make it impossible to keep the roads open.
Three of the roads were finished, and the last begun.
In ordinary conditions nothing would have been easier than to have ploughed roads across the frozen surface of this marsh.
From the travoy sledges and the short roads a constant stream of logs emptied itself on the bank.
Running along roads the width of the car and stone walls on either side, while branches of trees are almost scraping the tops of our heads, and one might swear the speed-gauge has its finger on the fifty.
The paths and roads of Blackheath are altogether probably responsible for the making of a bigger and more enduring piece of golfing history than any others.
But the Blackheath paths and roads have been constructive in their effect upon the game, for they made the brassey.
I could find the way all right, and I guess the roads could be got across somehow, and I'd like to make that money--Gee!
She pointed with an extended arm to the skyline and gave cautions about land marks at a point where three roads met.
My feet are so sore from walking over these country roads that after this I'll never be able to look at a farm horse without tears in my eyes, and I'll take him by the hand and give the poor chap a box of corn salve.
The rain uproots the mountains; all the waters of the mountain rush into the plain; the roads become torrents.
Sublime nature is a fine thing, but one should have nothing to do with men--nor with roads and posts.
Near St. Jean, in the Jura, it appears that at this season young people still repair to the cross-roads and heights, and there wave burning torches so as to present the appearance of fiery wheels in the darkness.
It is often said that the burning should take place at a cross-road, and in several places cross-roads are shewn where the burning used to be performed.
Witches then speed on their errands of mischief, some sweeping through the air on besoms, others galloping along the roads on tabby-cats, which for that evening are turned into coal-black steeds.
Even if these things had been invented, the roads would scarcely have permitted the use of them.
The roads from Bersabee to Dan Are old and quickly tire, But to the heart of child or man Youth is a fairy fire: Our youthful roads, they never tire From Bersabee to Dan.
In the east of France by the roads of war, (God save us evermore from Mars and Thor!
The peasants laboured under heavy burdens, the roads were dangerous for all travellers, and the streets of cities were infested after nightfall by dangerous pickpockets and assassins.
They looked forward to increase of trade as roads were made and bridges built, and they welcomed the chance of education and the preparation for a national life.
But the cold at nights was intense, and the state of the roads often made travelling difficult for the horses.
Forest land and wild heath make men very careful, but quiet country roads where villages are frequent give them confidence.
The roads were quiet, and there were few abroad as we neared Highgate; yet I could not help thinking that I always heard steps behind us, and ever and anon I looked over my shoulder.
Travelling was becoming increasingly difficult and trying as they mounted into higher regions, and the roads became mere bridle paths, often encumbered with snow drifts, and difficult to traverse.
Here were no long streets, or even common roads or sidewalks.
They were to be worn over the deerskin suits when they stopped to rest in the heavy trail, and also while the boys were riding over the long stretches of icy roads where it was possible for the dogs to easily draw them.
As the weather was hot and roads dusty, our troops were easily fatigued and made but slow progress.
French intervention in Mexico was the South's opportunity; Seward's object in the Hampton Roads Conference was to ascertain if Southern statesmanship knew how to play its advantage.
After the Hampton Roads conference he had no longer any hope of a peaceful solution through the action of President Davis; from thenceforth he turned his thoughts to the accomplishment of the same end through the action of the States.
On this deposit the trees uprooted with it form a new growth, and through this dark natural forest wind lonely paths--the roads of the osier-cutters and fisher-folk.
From the night of the 29th to the morning of the 31st the rain fell in such torrents as to make it impossible to move a wheeled vehicle, except as corduroy roads were laid in front of them.
McClernand was on the right and covered the roads running south and south-west from Dover.
From the heavy rains that had fallen for days and weeks preceding and from the constant use of the roads between the troops and the landing four to seven miles below, these roads had become cut up so as to be hardly passable.
The cavalry went to the rear, seized the roads leading to Winchester and held them for the use of our troops in falling back, General Wright having ordered a retreat back to that place.
Preparations were at once made to relieve General Humphreys's corps, to report to General Sheridan; but the condition of the roads prevented immediate movement.
The country in this part of Mississippi stands on edge, as it were, the roads running along the ridges except when they occasionally pass from one ridge to another.
The roadswest were not of a character to draw supplies over for any considerable force.
But the heavy timber and narrow roads prevented him from getting into position for attack as promptly as he generally did when receiving such orders.
The roads were intolerable, and in some places on Sherman's line, where the land was low, they were covered more than a foot deep with water.
From there to Fredericksburg he had the use of the two roads above described running nearly parallel to the Wilderness.
Then, again, our cavalry had struck some of the enemy and were pursuing them; and the orders were that the roads should be given up to the cavalry whenever they appeared.
Once again, this time on one of our home roads near Pittsburg, I felt the beauty of the color of great masses of flowers.
And as they drove slowly along the partly dried, muddy roads of mid-April the effect of every varying phase of the spring weather on the massed color sank slowly into their consciousness.
The shadow was lifted; there were no more crooked roads to travel; my old friend was at rest.
Alone and on horseback, by bad roads and swollen streams, he went on his dangerous journey; and on the fourth Sunday in Lent arrived at the town of Thorn, and rested for the day.
We know that some of the Brethren were hacked in pieces, that some were tortured, that some were burned alive, that some swung on gibbets at the city gates and at the country cross-roads among the carrion crows.
The roads became worse, if possible, as we proceeded.
The roads proved so bad that they were nearly a month on their way going, and consequently they had consumed almost all the provisions they had for the whole trip.
At last Kate could feel, by the uneven falling of the hoofs and by the slower pace of the beasts, that they had reached rougher country, where the roads were less densely compacted than in the neighborhood of the traffic of a city.
As soon as the camp was left behind Marie came to the front, and, without apology or explanation, led the way, diving into darkling roads and striking across fields by unseen bridle-paths without the least hesitation.
You will be the better o' your suppers afore ye gang ony sic roads at this time of night," she said, determinedly.
What have the trolleys accomplished which the steam roads could not do?
The interurban trolleys are doing much that the steam roads cannot do, connecting vast rural sections which hitherto have been aside from the beaten paths of life.
Furthermore weather conditions greatly complicate the problem, particularly where muddy roads are impassable or the northern climate prescribes deep snow drifts which prohibit transportation.
A recent survey of social conditions in northern Missouri reports that in thirty miles of travel on country roads not one unpainted barn or farmhouse was observed, but every schoolhouse was out of repair.
When was the "Good Roads Association" formed, and how much has your state expended for state roads the past twenty years?
Why are good roadsso essential, socially and industrially, in the country sections?
The social effects of good roads are almost as clear as the industrial benefits.
In the vicinity roads were non-existent; some rugged pathways were all the thoroughfares with which the place was provided.
Over-centralization, so that when emergency of war occurred, no corps was complete in itself; materiel had to be obtained from Paris, means of transport and roads being at once blocked in consequence.
The circumstance that the town and the roads where the shipping lay were completely sheltered from the south-west monsoon then prevailing furnished full explanation for the oppressive damp heat to which we were at once introduced.
But some of our party looked back with fond remembrances to the freedom and feeling of exhilaration attending the early morning march in India, dusty roads and sundry other drawbacks notwithstanding.
An annexe of the fort was utilised as a prison for the worst class of malefactors, and the native police in charge of them, the prisoners being engaged in chain gangs by day, working on roads and public works within the settlement.
Amusements of different kinds were instituted, short excursions taken in various directions along such roads or pathways as existed for purposes of communication along the coast and to places inland.
Neither the roadsnor the grounds are well kept, and the government "turns an honest penny" by the letting of it out for the pasturage of horses.
There was little danger of being overtaken by Pierre; but there was a chance of his being seen by the sentinels that the raiders might station on the roads leading to the village.
The roads are here macadamized, in the best of condition, and moderately level.
It is obliged, for example, to make itsroads fit for travelling, and so render them passable for the transfer of merchandise.
She knew that Sir Lucien's card represented a signpost at the cross-roads where many a girl, pretty but not exceptionally talented, had hesitated with beating heart.
One drives along dreadful roads where there are stalls and Jews for quite an interminable time, and then over a sort of canal, and then round to the right all among ships and horrid Chinamen.
