country-road

Raffaelesque oval of its contour was remarkable for an English countenance, and that countenance housed in a remote country-road to an unheard-of harbour.

Wessex Tales 2006

It opens as a pedal steel Nashville pastiche, a yarn about a disgruntled country-road petrol pump attendant who runs off with the day's take and a plan to 'head west' with his girl.

Brand New Day 1999

It had one draw-back, the country-road was not as smooth as the pavement.

The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 Gordon Sellar

For a mile or two after we left home, we bowled rapidly along on a well-travelled turnpike; then a sudden turn to the right brought us, with slackened speed, into a quiet country-road.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Various

The Doctor came slowly along the quiet country-road, watching the woman's figure going as slowly before him.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 Various

It is a thorough country-road, lazy, choking itself up with mud even in summer, to keep city-carriages out, bordering itself with slow-growing maples and banks of lush maiden's-hair, blood-red partridge-berries, and thistles.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 Various

This medley of picturesque and brilliant uniforms was wonderfully effective, of course, and whenever I came upon a group of lancers in sky-blue and yellow lounging about the door of a wayside tavern or met a patrol of guides in their green jackets and scarlet breeches trotting along a country-road, I always had the feeling that I was looking at a painting by Meissonier or

Fighting in Flanders 1918

The Briscoe buckboard rattled along the elastic country-road, the roans setting a sharp pace as they turned eastward on the pike toward home and supper.

The Gentleman from Indiana Booth Tarkington 1907

Alone, I believe, among the Concord houses of former times, it is set back far enough from the country-road to have an avenue leading to it, lined with balm of Gilead trees, and guarded at the entrance by two tall granite posts somewhat like obelisks.

The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne Stearns, Frank P 1906

The street ran into a white country-road, lined with tall poplars.

The Frontier Maurice Leblanc 1902