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  • He made a long day of it, but no glimpse did he catch of Dede Mason, though he even took the back-road of many gates and rode on into Berkeley.

    Chapter XI 2010

  • The next moment, flying around a bend, the back-road they were not going to take appeared.

    Chapter XI 2010

  • Daylight had met her on the back-road from Berkeley, and they had had hours together.

    Chapter XIV 2010

  • You can also take the Wilsonville exit and back-road it to Newberg but that's turning out just like the Chehalem route too.

    Where Portland jobs will be going (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • No Dede on a chestnut sorrel came across the back-road from Berkeley that day, nor the day a week later.

    Chapter XIII 2010

  • There's also more deliberately aesthetic works, including "Driftless," director Danny Wilcox Frazier's cinematic portrait of small-town Iowans left in limbo by the collapse of the family farm—based on his own detailed work as a photographer bonding with subjects in back-road bars and barns.

    Down Darkened Roads Steve Dollar 2011

  • Fearing that a telephone message to arrest them had been flashed ahead, they had turned into the back-road through the hills, and now, rushing in upon Oakland by a new route, were boisterously discussing what disposition they should make of the constable.

    Chapter XI 2010

  • Quest as he would through the Piedmont hills and along the many-gated back-road to Berkeley, Daylight saw nothing of

    Chapter XI 2010

  • In good conscience, travel writers were no longer able to warn tourists about driving the switchbacks, back-road banditos or cars overheating on secondary roads without service stations.

    Jacobo Angeles: A rich wood-carving tradition in Oaxaca, dating to pre-Hispanic times 2008

  • In good conscience, travel writers were no longer able to warn tourists about driving the switchbacks, back-road banditos or cars overheating on secondary roads without service stations.

    Jacobo Angeles: A rich wood-carving tradition in Oaxaca, dating to pre-Hispanic times 2008

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