macadamized

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The country roads will be well graded and macadamized, and bridges will be built across the streams.

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  • Here only one side of the road is macadamized, the other half is the soil, but the road is very wide, so down hill you take the soil, very safe. —  Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N.
  • It is called a macadamized road, and twenty miles of it will make the pelvis of a long-waisted man chafe against his ears. —  The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X)
  • It was thirty-five feet wide, thoroughly macadamized, and had no grade of above five degrees. —  History of the United States, Volume 3 (of 6)
  • The Government to grant a strip one mile wide, so as to provide room for every kind of road, railway, plank, macadamized, and electric motor, or otherwise constructed where not so practicable or advantageous. —  The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad Its Projectors, Construction and History
  • The donkey-boys curse in English, instead of Arabic; the men you meet sauntering about, though they do wear red caps, have cheeks as red; and the road is broad and macadamized, and Britannic. —  The Bertrams
 

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