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  • Because it's almost as wide as the Taconic State Parkway, I thought I ran an even greater risk than usual of caroming off the roadway's guardrails and rock faces and spending the rest of my life in hock as I tried to repay Range Rover for the repairs.

    Driving Like the Other Half Ralph Gardner Jr. 2010

  • To find America's fastest roads, Inrix first looked for stretches of roadway where motorists routinely drive fast, then it found the speed range at which each roadway's fastest 5% of drivers travel.

    America's Fastest Roads 2010

  • To find America's fastest roads, Inrix first looked for stretches of roadway where motorists routinely drive fast, then it found the speed range at which each roadway's fastest 5% of drivers travel.

    America's Fastest Roads 2010

  • This seems illogical inasmuch as, for all their prejudices, no other fashionable riverside apartment along the roadway's route had a record that was any better.

    Michael Henry Adams: Great Houses of New York: The River Club, the Best Address, Part III 2009

  • CHETRY: And as I understand it, the roadway's still shut down this morning as you guys try to continue dealing with that accident scene.

    CNN Transcript Aug 8, 2008 2008

  • Dulong's surviving men cleared away the last of the thorn abatis, a dozen dead Voltigeurs were unceremoniously kicked over the roadway's edge into the ravine, and suddenly the Saltador was dark with French troops.

    Sharpe's Havoc Cornwell, Bernard 2003

  • The wide-brimmed leather hat had taken some of the blade's sting, but the sheer force of the blow still sent Williamson lurching sideways toward the roadway's ragged edge and Sharpe was still attacking, this time lunging, and the point of the blade pierced the deserter's green jacket, jarred on a rib and sent Williamson over the edge.

    Sharpe's Havoc Cornwell, Bernard 2003

  • The pontoons, like all ships, leaked, and there should have been men aboard to pump out their bilges, but those men had fled with the rest and the weight of the crowd and the slow leaking of the barges meant that the bridge inched lower and lower until the central pontoons, both of them massive barges, were entirely under water and the fast-flowing river began to break and fret against the roadway's edge.

    Sharpe's Havoc Cornwell, Bernard 2003

  • As the landscape slashed past us, the electric wires overhead, and the roadway's dotted line just to the left of the bike's front wheel, I thought that she was doing at least a hundred, but I felt extraordinarily calm on the bike.

    Along Came a Spider Patterson, James, 1947- 1993

  • He saw six horses down, legs kicking on the roadway's stone.

    Sharpe's Siege Cornwell, Bernard 1987

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