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  • They will have to cross a busy road-way, Route 347 which has been targeted as one of the deadliest roadways here on Long Island.

    Economic Stimulus Package: Jindal, Sanford and Barber to constituents, drop dead! 2009

  • I was sitting in the road-way, blinking at it, and at a ring of people collected around me, but not close to me, when, true to my character of worldly little devil, I broke silence by saying, ‘I am hungry and thirsty!’

    George Silvermans's Explanation 2007

  • This street — now little frequented, hot in summer, cold in winter, dark in certain sections — is remarkable for the resonance of its little pebbly pavement, always clean and dry, for the narrowness of its tortuous road-way, for the peaceful stillness of its houses, which belong to the Old town and are over-topped by the ramparts.

    Eug�nie Grandet 2007

  • I was sitting in the road-way, blinking at it, and at a ring of people collected around me, but not close to me, when, true to my character of worldly little devil, I broke silence by saying, ‘I am hungry and thirsty!’

    George Silvermans's Explanation 2007

  • Some sort of baker's van, although the bow-legged man standing across the road-way from it looked nothing like a baker.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • Some sort of baker's van, although the bow-legged man standing across the road-way from it looked nothing like a baker.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • Also, cars driving at over 10 miles an hour across that bridge always tended to make a loud noise when they passed over an expansion joint in the road-way toward the middle of the span.

    The Riverman Robert D. Keppel 2005

  • Also, cars driving at over 10 miles an hour across that bridge always tended to make a loud noise when they passed over an expansion joint in the road-way toward the middle of the span.

    The Riverman Robert D. Keppel 2005

  • Also, cars driving at over 10 miles an hour across that bridge always tended to make a loud noise when they passed over an expansion joint in the road-way toward the middle of the span.

    The Riverman Robert D. Keppel 2005

  • It consists merely of stout Bamboos crossing each other at the road-way like the letter X, and rising a few feet above it.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

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