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Such courses simply aren't as much fun as they should be, especially when golfers are goaded by custom, peer pressure and design cues (such as cart-path routing and the color of the tee markers) to play from distances ill-suited to their games.
A Tee Too Far 2008
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Several times, when a visitor chanced to stay into evening, and it proved a dark night, I was obliged to conduct him to the cart-path in the rear of the house, and then point out to him the direction he was to pursue, and in keeping which he was to be guided rather by his feet than his eyes.
Walden 2004
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And the blackberries a-growing, but I cross it like a cart-path in the woods.
Walden 2004
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The farmer's cart-path, which leads directly through their hall, does not in the least put them out, as the muddy bottom of a pool is sometimes seen through the reflected skies.
Walking 1969
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No axe had invaded these solitudes for years except to prune away a too riotous undergrowth along the cart-path: the trees grew in grand natural aisles, and to look through the noble colonnade into mysterious vistas of copsewood gloom and stillness was for me to thrill with that blissful agony of youthful emotion which is our first premonition of the unreachable secret that underlies the universe.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various
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"There is our new abode," anounced the enthusiast, smiling with the satisfaction quite undamped by the drops dripping from his hat-brim, as they turned at length into a cart-path that wound along a steep hillside into a barren-looking valley.
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The farmer's cart-path, which leads directly through their hall, does not in the least put them out, as the muddy bottom of a pool is sometimes seen through the reflected skies.
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various
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There was snow as far as you could see, -- down the cart-path, and all around, and away into the woods; and there was snow in the sky now, setting in for a regular nor'easter.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various
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It was merely a brown ribbon of cart-path through the second-growth timber, and it wound along the hillside, sometimes approaching very close to the main highway.
Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace Alice B. Emerson
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We rowed ashore to a yellow crescent of sandy beach shaded by cypresses where a cart-path led off through the woods.
Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins
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