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  • How much one suddenly appreciates the quietness of a provincial town, which once seemed stiflingly dull, after four years plus of the smelly, preoccupied and traffic-laden hubbub that is west London.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Imogen 2009

  • How much one suddenly appreciates the quietness of a provincial town, which once seemed stiflingly dull, after four years plus of the smelly, preoccupied and traffic-laden hubbub that is west London.

    Return to work after a week off... Imogen 2009

  • The credits for Fritz L.ng's The Blue Gardenia (1953), a crisp, proto-feminist whodunit set in L. A.'s garden-court apartments, newspaper offices, and nightclubs, unroll over shots of a traffic-laden freeway with an overpass; then the camera pans to City Hall, moving next to a strip, where it finally cuts to Richard Conte, the male lead, in a convertible.

    Day into Noir Douglas, Ann 2007

  • The credits for Fritz L.ng's The Blue Gardenia (1953), a crisp, proto-feminist whodunit set in L. A.'s garden-court apartments, newspaper offices, and nightclubs, unroll over shots of a traffic-laden freeway with an overpass; then the camera pans to City Hall, moving next to a strip, where it finally cuts to Richard Conte, the male lead, in a convertible.

    Day into Noir Douglas, Ann 2007

  • The rest of the journey through the traffic-laden streets to the hotel was so vivid a panorama of shifting scenes that, to the unaccustomed eyes of the girls, it seemed like one confused blur.

    Lucile Triumphant Elizabeth M. Duffield

  • The most striking thing that met the eye on the way to the front that day was the hustle and bustle on the roads, the same roads that had been deserted by day and traffic-laden only at night.

    History of the 113th Field Artillery 30th Division 1920

  • He had not much time or opportunity, however, to dwell at length upon such matters; for a quarter of an hour later the tug had cast off, the pilot had taken charge, and the _Quernmore_, under her own steam, was proceeding rapidly down the winding, traffic-laden river.

    A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas Harry Collingwood 1886

  • Black-hulked, red-illumined Liverpool steamers, gay river-craft and ships of every sail and flag, filled the stream athwart which the ferries sped their swift traffic-laden shuttles; a lower town hung to the foot of the rock, and crept, populous and picturesque, up its sides; from the massive citadel on its crest flew the red banner of Saint

    Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878

  • (During foliage season, it's also one of the most traffic-laden.)

    NYT > Travel By MARK AIKEN 2010

  • Frogs and toads awakening in spring after their winter sleep must cross traffic-laden highways - posing a fatal threat to these species.

    unknown title 2009

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