main-road

He was working on the rather deliberate decoration of the main-road system then in course of construction, running from Cape Finisterre through North Italy and along the North Black-Sea Dyke to the Crimea and

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

There had been no government land-sales of late, and all main-road frontages had still to come under the hammer.

Australia Felix 2003

Only last summer there had been a builder, a tough, self-made man from a nearby city who had driven through the village and seen at once the possibilities of her home and its land with its valuable main-road frontage, in a small, rural area that would be so conveniently close to the city once the new motorway system was completed.

So Close And No Closer Jordan, Penny, 1946- 1989

Only last summer there had been a builder, a tough, self-made man from a nearby city who had driven through the village and seen at once the possibilities of her home and its land with its valuable main-road frontage, in a small, rural area that would be so conveniently close to the city once the new motorway system was completed.

So Close and No Closer Jordan, Penny, 1946- 1989

Somehow they had to make their way round the foot of the hill to the main-road that entered the town - but the way lay over marshy ground!

Five Go To Smugglers Top Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1983

Jake was evidently much dissatisfied with the whole proceeding; and I could hear him muttering anathemas against his rival as he trotted behind me through the grounds, and out at the entrance-gate into the main-road beyond.

The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea J. [Illustrator] Schonberg

In the course of the struggle in which we had been engaged, we had been borne considerably out of the line of our first position, and now found that the main-road and the picquet of the rifles, were close in our rear.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 264, July 14, 1827 Various

As the gate swung back upon its hinges with a clang, Jake's woolly head, surmounted by the veriest wisp of a ragged red handkerchief, disappeared behind the thick and impenetrable hedge of thorny cactus and spike - guarded prickly-pear that inclosed the plantation, separating it from the main-road forming its boundary and leading, some four miles or so beyond, over mountain and gully to Saint George's, the capital town of

The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea J. [Illustrator] Schonberg

Sometimes the crossways joined the main-road that ran alongside the railway.

Tales of the Wilderness Boris Pilniak 1915

Sometimes the main-road is joined by the crossways, and from them to the main-road and over it passes the long vaunted Rising, the people's tumult, to sweep away the Unnecessary, then vanish back again into the crossways.

Tales of the Wilderness Boris Pilniak 1915