river-road

I often meet them while out on my river-road walk.

Sisters and mothers in a Mexico town 2007

I often meet them while out on my river-road walk.

Sisters and mothers in a Mexico town 2007

But what has won the greatest honor for the Brazilian government is that on the 31st of July, 1857, after numerous frontier disputes between France and Brazil, about the Guiana boundary, the course of the Amazon was declared to be free and open to all flags; and, to make practice harmonize with theory, Brazil entered into negotiations with the neighboring powers for the exploration of every river-road in the basin of the Amazon.

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 2003

They had traveled so far south and west in pursuing the raiders that the dusty river-road is a far shorter return than retracing their tracks to the northeast and along the beaches would have been.

Scion of Cyador Modesitt, L. E. 2000

On the evening I departed the Old Citadel for exile, I walked the Water Way, seeing the argosies and carracks that plied the wide river-road of Gyoll, and a wind had sprung up that sent my guild cloak billowing behind me and told me of the north; now that wind blew again, chanting loud of new years and singing all the songs of a new world.

The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987

He decided that he couldn't possibly catch the fellow - why, he was almost at the turning into the river-road now!

The Mystery of the Strange Bundle Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1952

December; that General Granger had left Chattanooga for Knoxville, by the river-road, with a steamboat following him in the river; but he feared that General Granger could not reach Knoxville in time, and ordered me to take command of all troops moving for the relief of Knoxville, and hasten to General Burnside.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

We made another detour from our path and followed the river-road to

The Automobilist Abroad

The swaying shaft of light intensified and a moment later the long-drawn poignancy of a chime-whistle blowing for the river-road crossing, exquisitely softened by distance, echoingly penetrated the still valley.

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 Various

Stuart took the river-road the movement commencing at 11 o'clock a.m..

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger