turn-pike

Here I am, on top of a dirty thirty miles, as knocked up and stiff and sore as a pink - tea degenerate after a five-mile walk on a country turn-pike.

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That is to say, as near as I can tell, contending that tolls are taxes; rather you are contending that the turn-pike is not actually a toll road (at least not entirely).

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Vizier had his usual instructions to take note of the boy at the turn-pike, and if he profanely gazed (which he always did) at the beauties of the Hareem, to have him bowstrung in the course of the night — and it happened that our hearts were veiled in gloom.

The Haunted House 2007

Vizier had his usual instructions to take note of the boy at the turn-pike, and if he profanely gazed (which he always did) at the beauties of the Hareem, to have him bowstrung in the course of the night — and it happened that our hearts were veiled in gloom.

The Haunted House 2007

One day, we were out walking, two and two – on which occasion the Vizier had his usual instructions to take note of the boy at the turn-pike, and if he profanely gazed (which he always did) at the beauties of the Hareem, to have him bowstrung in the course of the night – and it happened that our hearts were veiled in gloom.

The Haunted House by Charles Dickens | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004

Even so doth the tollman at the well-frequented turn-pike on the Wellbraehead, sitting at his ease in his own dwelling, gather more receipt of custom, than if, moving forth upon the road, he were to require a contribution from each person whom he chanced to meet in his journey, when, according to the vulgar adage, he might possibly be greeted with more kicks than halfpence.

The Black Dwarf 2004

“He delivers the mail,” Kelly said, as she drove toward the turn-pike.

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Joshua John Anderson fled from a farmer who was said to be a poor man, by the name of Skelton Price, residing in Baltimore county, near a little village called Alexandria, on the Harford county turn-pike road.

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In 1855 the present building was erected partly on the site of the old turn-pike house, and it was opened in 1856. 1834.

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As by intuition, the flying soldiers felt that the roadway would be blocked at the bridge over Cedar Creek, so they crossed the turn-pike and bore to the left in order to reach the fords above.

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