sheep-track

Here the guide turned short off the open heath, and, by a sheep-track, conducted

Old Mortality 2004

The ground, where not covered with snow, was so poor and stony, and there was so little herbage, that I could see no sign of a path or regular sheep-track.

Erewhon 2003

I was still on the sheep-track when our lamp was quenched.

The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978

But however many times she had been up the sheep-track – he supposed it was a sheep-track, though there was no sign of any sheep – she hadn't learned to traverse it willingly: he was already sweating with the effort of dragging her up and he suspected that only the near impossibility of turning round kept the beast going.

The Alamut Ambush Price, Anthony 1971

It was uphill nearly all the way, and the foulest, rockiest, ruttiest sheep-track of a road imaginable, once one had left the main road.

The Saltmarsh Murders Mitchell, Gladys, 1901- 1933

The ground, where not covered with snow, was so poor and stony, and there was so little herbage, that I could see no sign of a patch or regular sheep-track.

Erewhon; or, Over the range 1910

Eng. raike, a path, a sheep-track (Scand.), we get Raikes and perhaps Greatorex, found earlier as Greatrakes, the name of a famous faith-healer of the seventeenth century.

The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

They always went the same way, up the green sheep-track that they knew; they always turned back at the same place, where the stream he had seen her jumping ran from the hill; and they always took the same time to go and turn.

The Three Sisters May Sinclair 1904

With a _whoo-sh_ a rocket leapt into the air and burst, flooding the beach with light, showing up every furze bush, every stone wall, every sheep-track, on the surrounding cliffs.

The Mayor of Troy Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

If he were in the market-place, or in the ways of the crowded city, or threading a sheep-track on the lonely moor, he wanted to have the unbroken consciousness that he was in the Temple of God.

Brooks by the Traveller's Way 1864-1923 1902