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It was a good afternoon's tramp to Niles, passing through the town of Haywards; yet Saxon and Billy found time to diverge from the main county road and take the parallel roads through acres of intense cultivation where the land was farmed to the wheel-tracks.
CHAPTER II 2010
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You see outside the fence there, clear to the wheel-tracks in the road -- horse-beans.
CHAPTER I 2010
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But as they were stamping through the rivulets of wheel-tracks that crisscrossed on a slushy street-crossing Mr. Wrenn regained his advantage by crying,
Our Mr. Wrenn 2004
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I accordingly determined to retrace our wheel-tracks back to the head of the Salvator, and to explore from thence the country to the north-west, as far as our stock of provisions and the season would permit.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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Since I had first explored that country to which my wheel-tracks marked and led the way, station after station had been taken up by squatters, not by following any line of route, but rather according to the course of the river, for the sake of water; and in such cases, the beaten track from station to station, no matter how crooked, becomes the road.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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The chariot left black-shaded wheel-tracks behind it on the silvery sands, before it disappeared beyond the first bend of the wadi.
Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001
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They swept around another bend in the riverbed, and even from two hundred paces Taita could make out the area of confused wheel-tracks where the chariots of Pharaoh's squadron had halted and circled, and where many men had dismounted and remounted in the soft sand of the wadi bottom.
Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001
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He was sure they had the same pattern as those shown in the wheel-tracks he had sketched!
Five Have Plenty Of Fun Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1955
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I traversed most of the by-ways which offered themselves to me; and, passing through one in which there was a double line of grass between the wheel-tracks and that of the horses 'feet, I came to where had once stood a farm-house, which appeared to have been recently torn down.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 Various
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"I ought to have known," he thought; and stooping, raised the girl, still unconscious, tied the jacket by the arms round her neck, and lifting her so that her waist was against his shoulder, set out to windward, following the wheel-tracks.
Ambrotox and Limping Dick Oliver Fleming
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