Let us be content to take two or three miles of turnpike by Burford Bridge to Dorking, whose tall spire, reared in memory of Bishop Wilberforce, marks the traditional course of Stone Street by its churchyard.
On turnpike and lane and crossroads there was falling the dry snow of true winter when there is sleighing.
Nearer, nearer, nearer, along the turnpike came the sound of the bells.
Straight along the turnpike that ran between the Dean and the Buford farms, the Fourth Ohio went in a cloud of thick dust that rose and settled like a gray choking mist on the seared fields.
Next day he hired a horse from the livery stable where he had bought the old brood mare, and early in the afternoon he rode out the broad turnpike in a nervous tumult of feeling that more than once made him halt in the road.
Only that morning she had seen a regiment of the hated Yankees move along the turnpike in flight for the Ohio.
On the edge of town they saw a negro lashing a pair of horses along the turnpike toward them.
The approach was like a turnpike road full of great ruts, clumsy mendings; bordered by trampled edges and incursions upon the grass at pleasure.
She trotted along upon the turnpike road like a lost doe, crying as she went at the new trouble which had come upon Berta, whatever that trouble might be.
One evening soon after we went into camp on theturnpike some ten miles below Columbia, two men rode into the camp inquiring for me.
Crossing the Tennessee River a short distance below the foot of Mussell Shoals we struck the turnpike at Pulaski, Tenn.
We moved down through Columbia, and five or six miles down the Mount Pleasant turnpike and went into camp.
Leaving Eton Slocombe, the coach took the turnpike road via Stilton, as the night and the snow came on together.
It was nearly eleven o'clock when he and the Artful Dodger reached the turnpike at Islington.
Breakfast over, away the stages went over the good turnpike road at a rapid pace.
Between Baltimore and Washington there were opposition lines of stages and a good turnpike road.
The man who had been seen driving rapidly along the turnpikesometime near daybreak, on Wednesday, was presumably the man who could tell him all about it.
Who would believe the story of his innocent ramble on the turnpike that Tuesday night?
Others again, though these were few, took to the turnpike or the railroad track, and tramped across country.
The three Dogberrys of the watch were dispatched on secret missions, and within an hour it was ferreted out that a man in a cart had been seen driving furiously up the turnpike the morning after the murder.
It stood back from the turnpikejust as ever, with its ample doorway, its great shadowing elms, its air of haughty well-being.
Old Hundred leaned pensively over the white rail--the sign of a State highway; for the dusty old Turnpike was now converted into a gray strip of macadam road, torn by the automobiles, with a trolley track at one side.
After a few hundred feet the cross-road went up a rise and round a bend, and the new frame houses along the Turnpike were shut from view.
Hill had done some work on the subject at his home in Nyack Turnpike before I took charge of the office.
His little farm at Nyack Turnpike sufficed for his home, and supplied his necessities so long as he lived there, and all he asked in Washington was the means of going on with his work.
The thin, sprightly figure moved quickly in spite of the eighty-four years and in less than ten minutes he was seated beside the girl and they were flying over the turnpike toward the Schlitz place.
He's got a hundred men waiting out on the turnpike and they're going to hang the Governor from one of the Capitol windows!
Commerce, commerce is the turnpike to health, to affluence, the path to consideration.
Well, he started off all right toward the depot, the bells jingling nice, and pretty soon I see the sleigh come back with somebody else within and go up the turnpikethis way, and so I went upstairs and turned into bed.
Hugh ran down the side road to the turnpike in time to stop the team, a wave of relief sweeping over him when he saw that it was 'Lisha Potts taking his evening milk down to the centre.
Indeed, for some time after the opening of the line, there were travellers who used to avoid the terrors of the tunnel by posting along the turnpike road in that part of their journey.
After a good deal of hesitation between various places, he fixed upon a spot at Watcombe, about three miles from Torquay, on the Teignmouth turnpike road.
They trotted down the turnpike a mile, and then turned into a cross-road bordered by hay-fields almost ready for cutting.
That is why I have so often found dead birds along the turnpike under the telegraph wires," said Rap.
The Virginia and Tennessee Railroad has been built (1852), supplying quick communication with the outside world; and the macadamized turnpike has been built from Buchanan to the west, passing within a few hundred yards of the School.
The turnpike from the west passed immediately in front of the hotel and between the springs, which are one hundred yards apart.
Hastening away from the shadows of the formidable pile I made for the first crossroad, intending to strike the central turnpike as quickly as possible.
Only once did I perceive a human being, and that was at the intersection of our crossroad with the wide, white turnpike which cuts each cultivated district longitudinally at its exact center.
Far down on the gray turnpike she saw the diminished figure of John March speeding townward across the battle-field.
He rode out alone upon the old turnpike and over the knoll where Suez still hopes some day to build the reservoir, and reached the spot where he and his young adjutant picked blackberries that first day we ever saw them.
Soon a wreath of turnpike dust near the broken culvert over Turkey Creek showed the good speed the travelers made.
As the turnpike became a tree-shaded street, they passed briskly by its old-fashioned houses set deep in grove gardens.
Time passed so pleasantly that when they came into the turnpike and saw his father coming across the battle-field with two other horsemen, his good spirits hardly had room to rise any higher.
The Pulaski City turnpike entered at the northwest corner and passed through to the court-house green with its hollow square of stores and law-offices--two sides of it blackened ruins of fire and war.
Deeply absorbed, but clear in bloody resolve, March walked his horse down the turnpike in the cold sunshine and blustering air.
His home was on the turnpike between Middleburg and Upperville.
We were afraid that the wagons that had already passed out on the open turnpike had been captured.
They carried him a few yards into the woods north of the turnpike to shield him from the expected advance of the Federalists.
As we stood on the edge of the woods we saw the Yankee cavalry moving up and down the turnpike running from Paris to Middleburg.
He mentions that he could not have done the same in the neighbourhood of Dublin on account of the absence of turnpike roads.
During the whole of the sixteenth century the improvement of English main and cross-roads continued steadily advancing by the system of turnpike tolls, on the security of which money was borrowed by the parishes in order to make them.
It probably follows the turnpike here in order to avoid a very deep hollow.
Leaving Bear Camp, the road, after crossing Mill Run, intercepts the Pennsylvania boundary line, and a few rods farther on crosses the National turnpike less than one-fourth of a mile west of Oakton.
A short distance west of this point it crosses the turnpike and the Eckhart branch of the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad in order to avoid a very deep hollow, and joins the pike again four hundred feet farther on.
From this point to Addison, a little over a mile distant, the road parallels the turnpikeless than quarter of a mile to the north of it.
Proceeding in the same straight line westward less than quarter of a mile, it reaches and crosses the turnpike to the north.
The distance of Nottingham from Derby by turnpike road, along which the lasses and young men of the ballad must have travelled, is fifteen miles.
It may be well to remark that flax was, some years ago, much grown in this part of Derbyshire: some meadows at Duffield through which the turnpike road passes, are still known by the name of Flax-holmes.
Back of the river on either side the country is hilly and somewhat cultivated, but its immediate valley contains nothing that smacks of civilization but a turnpike road, and an occasional tavern.
For a number of years past the value of the live stock (as ascertained from books of the Turnpike Company) that is driven through Buncombe county is from two to three millions of dollars.
