road-work

I suppose you will soon have finished your road-work out here?

Little Eyolf 2008

I suppose you will soon have finished your road-work out here?

Little Eyolf 2008

‘Take my advice, my boy, and don’t give him too much summer road-work.

Doctor Thorne 2004

So does the porridge ladled out to each road-work prisoner.

The Towers of the Sunset Modesitt, L. E. 1992

They consisted chiefly in the making or altering or improving of roads -- and everybody knows that unfinished road-work is worse than useless, -- it is a positive injury.

The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke

When engaged in road-work the Dhimars have unsewn sandals secured to the feet with strips of leather.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

When by rare good luck a peasant secures road-work or other employment from a proprietor at once sufficiently solvent and public-spirited to undertake any enterprise for the improvement of the country, he will walk for a couple or three hours to his work and then go on with it till dinner-time.

Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker

The days were spent on road-work or on big communication saps, and at night, more often than not, there were sapping fatigues in the front firing line, squadron supports, heavy pieces of artillery to haul to their emplacement, and the like.

The Tale of a Trooper 1930

Directly I saw you -- see here, what's the idea of this road-work?

The Man Upstairs and Other Stories 1928

It was his practise to open a course of training with a little gentle road-work, and it was while jogging along the highway a couple of miles from his training camp, in company with the two thick-necked gentlemen who acted as his sparring partners, that he had come upon the broken-down taxicab.

The Prince and Betty 1928