bridle-paths

Middleton Abbey, the place of her sojourn, was about twenty miles distant by road, eighteen by bridle-paths and footways.

The Woodlanders 2006

Canoes came off from the shore, dusky swimmers glided through the water, youths, athletes, like the bronzes of the Naples Museum, rode the waves on their surf-boards, brilliantly dressed riders galloped along the sands and came trooping down the bridle-paths from all the vicinity till a many-coloured tropical crowd had assembled at the landing.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

There are no conveyances, and outside the village these narrow roads dwindle into bridle-paths, with just room for one horse to pass another.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

Thereafter we turned off towards the crags, she fluttering her handkerchief lovingly after her departing lord, and presently we were climbing into the hills by one of the bridle-paths that are the only tracks through that wild and picturesque little region.

Royal Flash Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1970

Behind you ran a narrow road made well-nigh impassable by rains, while to the front you looked upon high foot-hills covered with a dense tropical growth, which could only be traversed by bridle-paths terminating within range of the enemy's guns.

History of the Gatling Gun Detachment John Henry Parker

The roads were very poor, and, indeed, little better than bridle-paths until the San Juan River and El Caney were reached.

History of the Gatling Gun Detachment John Henry Parker

St. Eleanor's, there was nothing but bridle-paths and rough trails through the woods.

Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

Where we were riding there was no road, -- simply bridle-paths, and frequently not even a path.

My Three Days in Gilead Elmer Ulysses Hoenshel

The trouble with most folks nowadays was that they had been trotting the thoroughfares of every-day commonplaces so long they had got dust in their eyes till they couldn't see the bridle-paths of the Unusual, but that didn't prove that Romance wasn't doing business at the same old stand.

Every Man for Himself Hopkins Moorhouse

The rocky and precipitous coast afforded no sheltered landing places, the roads were mere bridle-paths, the effect of the tropical sun and rains upon the unacclimated troops was deadly, and a dread of strange and unknown diseases had its effect on the Army.

History of the Gatling Gun Detachment John Henry Parker