tarmacadam

• “Mam's voice travels over the tarmacadam ribbon, across the road and up the lane into Hollie's Plant Hire company.”

  Fictionaut: Where's Me Dinner Woman?

• “Their roots had escaped up through the tarmacadam in many places; covered by fallen leaves and the propellers of sycamore seeds, they tripped the unwary.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Small Death in the Great Glen

• “Apart from a few tufts of grass that had breached the pitted tarmacadam, the place looked devoid of life.”

  Neurosurgical Intervention For Beginners

• “We drain the marshland, pour acres upon acres of tarmacadam, divide land-migrating animals and low flying bats from their desired plots and hideouts, we remove habitat without realizing that is the greatest 'sin' against wildlife.”

  A taste of country life.

• “The pre-vailing westerlies will banish that Saharan breeze and Belfast will become again the dour northern town of bricks, slate, and tarmacadam.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Bloomsday Dead

• “But in fairness, the vision of the early comprehensives was that, by reason of their much greater size, they would be able to offer the full range of teaching, from A-level Latin and Greek at one end to tarmacadam studies at the other.”

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• “And then, suddenly below us, was a circle of tarmacadam, with a large X in its centre.”

  Simon & Schuster: Temptation

• “After a moment, they vanished too – and we were descending fast through the palms, the pot-marked tarmacadam rising up to meet us, the sun incandescent, unforgiving.”

  Simon & Schuster: Temptation

• “Neither past nor future existed for me, only that eternal present, and it was good; the sun shone on the high roofs of Edinburgh, the summers were so hot the tarmacadam melted {it did — I remember it}, and in winter it snowed; my father was ten feet tall at least, and my mother was infinitely kind and gentle.”

  Jacob's Ladder

• “They came to where a dry, hard-earth track met the roadside on the left, the chevrons of mucky tractor tyre-tracks arcing out across the tarmacadam in both directions.”

  Country of the Blind

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