Still, two horses cannot haul a vehicle over a rutted trail as fast as one can carry a man, and when the wardens of the prairie raced towards the black wall of birches that rose higher in front of them, the sound of wheels seemed very near.
The bluff that rose steadily higher came back to them, willow and straggling birch flashed by, and at last Payne drew bridle where a rutted trail wound down between the trees to the bridge in the hollow.
It was these things that guided him, for he had left the rutted trail, and here and there the swish beneath the wheels told of taller grass, while the bluff ran black athwart the horizon when that had gone.
Here and there a man sprang clear of the rutted road, but Winston did not notice him or return his greeting.
But at length the great field ceased; and he came out suddenly on to a rutted roadway and saw in the distance a tumble-down little red building.
He soon evolved a system of his own for working over the rutted roadway as a miner pans the gravel of a gold-bearing stream; and whenever he made a find his joy and excitement were amazing.
Only when the sunlight was gone did they set him down on a rutted road that coiled away to the southwest.
The light showed on the rutted tracks of a lane that wandered through the trees--a lane that seemed somehow familiar.
Pausing only to stuff the ham and cheese into the pockets of his sweater, he darted around behind the wooden building that was used for an ice-house and gained the rutted road that led toward the mountains.
They marched down a rutted road where the puddles were so deep they had continually to break ranks to avoid them.
Then there was a rutted road on which stood a long line of French motor trucks with hunched grey backs like elephants.
Pete was trying to get the nozzle of the tar sprayer cleaned out when Mario's jeep came roaring down the rutted road from the village in a cloud of dust.
They moved in deadly convoy along the rutted road, closer and closer to the crowd of Dusties overflowing the road.
Down the deep-rutted soil of the village street they clattered.
The cart-track was a rutted path of soft, warm sand, on which he went almost noiselessly.
The two women turned into a dark lane that was deep rutted with carts, as if it led to a farm.
A white, steady glow identified Coldfield, the surrounding red and blue lines identified scores of subsurface passageways and rutted trails that curved away from the domed city in all directions.
A dozen or so rutted trails formed a network that connected encapsulated outposts to each other and to Pluto's solitary city.
On a wild April morning On the threshold of Puberty, there is one Unselfish Hour Once out of the rutted line, you are food for lion and jackal Once my love?
Its deeply rutted surface showed that it was frequently used.
Kent led with a swinging pace along the sandy, rutted road for an hour and a half.
Opposite a farmhouse, the path divided and my way became a miry and deeply rutted cart track.
And to us two youngsters as we walked along the cinder path beside the rutted road and argued out our perplexities, it seemed that this ridge gave us compendiously a view of our whole world.
The hesitation between two rutted unmade roads alone remains clear in my mind.
He stumbled over the rough ground that had been rutted by the wheels of the jigger wagons.
Over the snow, which was slushy under the April sun of midday, and finally into Adonia over the rutted grit that the evening chill had frozen, the baron of the Noda was driven to the door of his mansion on the ledges.
The ancient stone roads, rutted and gullied here and there with the flood-waters and silt of decades, had not been planned for any travel other than the feet of men or beasts.
The gaze of the Easterners was focused on its unpainted shacks and rutted streets.
We're afraid to step aside from the rutted path, to accept a new idea; really afraid to be and live out each his own individuality.
Turning Covenant I spurred down a narrow, deeply-rutted lane which led towards the house, followed by Sir Gervas and two or three of the troopers.
The road was in parts overgrown with brambles, and was so deeply rutted and so studded with sharp and dangerous hollows, that our horses came more than once upon their knees.
He saw the widely rutted trail, rounding the bluff at the right a hundred yards away, curving sharply down the slope and then disappearing over the low hill to the left, a slight stream trickling along its base.
Then, with teeth grimly locked, bending lower and lower, he crept across the rutted trail, and past the dead body of the Indian.
To east and west the valley, now scarcely more green than those upper plains, bounded by its verdureless bluffs, ran crookedly, following the river course, its only sign of white dominion the rutted trail.
The street was rutted and dusty, and the ceaseless wind swirled the dirt about in continuous, suffocating clouds.
It was not hard to trace it, for it was rutted two feet deep by the gun-wheels and the caissons.
We were riding now up the stony and rutted lane which led from the ford.
Two miles out he turned suddenly down a narrow, deeply rutted track, and made swiftly for his man.
There was a drive through the pine-wood--one of those green, slightly rutted drives where a horse can get the last yard out of itself, for the ground is hard enough to give him clean going and yet springy enough to help him.
They were two miles over the green shoulder of a hill, a rattle down a stony, deep-rutted country lane, where the mare stumbled and nearly came down, a jump over a 5ft.
As the wagon jolted away down the rutted street Nevis, standing still, somewhat flushed in face, gazed at Thorne.
Several gigs stood there to wait until their owners were ready to drive back to their outlying farms, and behind them the gray-white prairie ran back into the distance, empty and unbroken except for the riband of rutted trail.
A rutted trail led between the trees, and as the team moved a little faster down the dip the wagon jolted sharply.
Her thin boots were very muddy before she reached it, for there was no semblance of a street and the space between the houses and elevators was torn up and deeply rutted by wagon wheels.
Turning a corner, they came out into a wider space from which a riband of rutted trail led out into the wilderness.
We climbed into it and rode for upward of a mile along a seamed and rutted highway that wound up and over the abbreviated mountain of which we held one side and the Germans the other.
It was a stiff contract guiding the little ambulance over the shell-rutted roads, with deftness and precision, to those distant dressing stations where the hurt soldiers waited for him.
Lifting her skirts high, she waded through the deep snow to the rough-rutted track left by the farmers' sleighs.
The steel-reinforced wooden wheels of the carriage bumped mercilessly over the rutted road, and Auguste hoped Nicole wasn't pregnant at the moment.
She heard a thud that made her ears ring, and suddenly Wolf Paw was slumping to the rutted trail in front of her.
It was a sprawl of large brick and frame houses, and Pennsylvania Avenue was a muddy, deeply rutted thoroughfare as wide as a cornfield.
Yes, hurt much," said Redbird softly, watching the rutted dirt road pass under the wheels of the buggy.
The Prince sat still upon his horse, looking first at the rutted space that he had traversed and then at the rutted space before him.
The lane was narrow and rutted and thus the vehicle was progressing at an inconsiderable pace, and as it passed us where we stood in the hedge, I saw it contained a man and a woman.
Reaching the high road, I followed it until I espied a rutted byway bounded on the one hand by lofty trees and on the other by a high and sinister wall.
At this, he turned to scowl out of the window again and I out of mine, and thus we came to an end of the rutted by-lanes we had been traversing and turned into the smoother going of the main road.
The crude wooden wheels rumbled and creaked and jarred along the deep-rutted road, jouncing the occupants of the vehicle from side to side with unseemly playfulness.
