It is called a macadamized road, and twenty miles of it will make the pelvis of a long-waisted man chafe against his ears. ❋ Various (1887)
This "macadamized" surface was curved to permit drainage, and extra precautions were taken in localities where spring freshets were likely to cause damage. ❋ Frederic Austin Ogg (1914)
"macadamized" with a gray cement which gives very much the effect of asphaltum, separate one demesne from another; and each meadow, lawn, field, and barn-yard has its own proper fence or wall, constructed in the most workmanlike manner. ❋ Various (N/A)
Broad streets, well graded, were made, with sewers and water-pipes ready laid, and macadamized from his own quarries. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It was purchased by the government and macadamized. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In consequence of these operations the King decided to move to Commercy, which place we reached by carriage, traveling on a broad macadamized road lined on both sides with poplar-trees, and our course leading through a most beautiful country thickly dotted with prosperous-looking villages. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The roads running toward the Blue Ridge are nearly all macadamized, and the principal ones lead to the railroad system of eastern Virginia through Snicker's, ❋ Unknown (2010)
A little success in this first enterprise led him to take up contracting as a business, which he followed on various canals and macadamized roads then building in different parts of the State of Ohio, with some good fortune for awhile, but in 1853 what little means he had saved were swallowed up ❋ Unknown (2010)
At this period the great public works of the Northwest -- the canals and macadamized roads, a result of clamor for internal improvements -- were in course of construction, and my father turned his attention to them, believing that they offered opportunities for a successful occupation. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The German army having met with no resistance whatever in its march on Paris, its advance approached the capital rapidly, and by the 14th of September the royal headquarters moved by a fine macadamized road to the Chateau Thierry, and on the 5th reached Meaux, about twenty - eight miles from Paris, where we remained four days awaiting the reconstruction of some railroad and canal bridges. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A broad macadamized road, leading south from Williamsport, Maryland, to Lexington, Virginia, was built at an early day to connect the interior of the latter State with the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, and along this road are situated the principal towns and villages of the Shenandoah Valley, with lateral lines of communication extending to the mountain ranges on the east and west. ❋ Unknown (2010)
To repeat: the country is rich, beautiful, and densely populated, subsistence abundant, and the roads -- all macadamized highways; thus the conditions; are altogether different from those existing with us. ❋ Unknown (2010)
So presently leaving the macadamized road to pursue its course elsewhither, I step off upon the fallow, and plod stumblingly across it. ❋ Unknown (2006)
It was easy to supplant the coach and horses on the macadamized road by the steam-engine or the railway, because it was not necessary to do anything to the road or the coach and horses to bring about the change. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
He remembered the appearance of the street afterward — broad, brick-paved sidewalks, macadamized roadway, powdered over with a light snow and set with young, leafless, scrubby trees and lamp-posts. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Possibly they expected to find hotels and macadamized roads. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
High raised as we were above the ground, the reflected heat struck us sensibly, and the glare of a macadamized road added a few extra degrees of caloric. 5 The Badawin, to refresh themselves, prepare to smoke. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Thomas Newcomen, whose steam engine pumped water from mines (1712); roadmakers P.M. J. Trésaguet (171694) and John L. McAdam (invented macadamized roads, 17561836); Jethro Tull, New Horse Hoeing Husbandry (1732). ❋ Unknown (2001)
Although on his later marches he seldom had a macadamized Valley Pike, he always marched as if the worst road presented no more difficulties than did the thoroughfare along the Shenandoah. ❋ DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN (2001)
