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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
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The next moment, flying around a bend, the back-road they were not going to take appeared.
Chapter XI 2010
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Daylight had met her on the back-road from Berkeley, and they had had hours together.
Chapter XIV 2010
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You can also take the Wilsonville exit and back-road it to Newberg but that's turning out just like the Chehalem route too.
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No Dede on a chestnut sorrel came across the back-road from Berkeley that day, nor the day a week later.
Chapter XIII 2010
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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
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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
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Quest as he would through the Piedmont hills and along the many-gated back-road to Berkeley, Daylight saw nothing of
Chapter XI 2010
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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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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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