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• Then she walked across the road, set the tandem upright, pushed it sharply forward, and, in spite of the fact that the slope of the road was against her, mounted with agility and ease on to the front saddle. —  SLEUTH’S ALCHEMY: Cases of Mrs. Bradley and Others - Gladys Mitchell
• It would thus appear that the country on either side of the road was as yet entirely unenclosed But Mace's principal complaint was of the "innumerable controversies, quarrellings, and disturbances" caused by the packhorse-men, in their struggles as to which convoy should pass along the cleaner parts of the road. —  The Life of Thomas Telford
• The road trustees seemed to be helpless, and did nothing; a local subscription was tried and failed, the district passed through being very poor; but as the road was absolutely required for more than merely local purposes, it was eventually determined to undertake its reconstruction as a work of national importance, and 50,000L. —  The Life of Thomas Telford
• In former days, said he, knights of the road were a kind of military order into which none but decayed gentlemen presumed to intrude themselves. —  Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
• At the end of the road was a two-storied white house with porches circling it upstairs and downstairs. —  To Kill A Mockingbird

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