He was working on the rather deliberate decoration of the main-road system then in course of construction, running from Cape Finisterre through North Italy and along the North Black-Sea Dyke to the Crimea and ❋ Herbert George (2006)
There had been no government land-sales of late, and all main-road frontages had still to come under the hammer. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Only last summer there had been a builder, a tough, self-made man from a nearby city who had driven through the village and seen at once the possibilities of her home and its land with its valuable main-road frontage, in a small, rural area that would be so conveniently close to the city once the new motorway system was completed. ❋ Jordan, Penny, 1946- (1989)
Somehow they had to make their way round the foot of the hill to the main-road that entered the town - but the way lay over marshy ground! ❋ Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 (1983)
Jake was evidently much dissatisfied with the whole proceeding; and I could hear him muttering anathemas against his rival as he trotted behind me through the grounds, and out at the entrance-gate into the main-road beyond. ❋ J. [Illustrator] Schonberg (N/A)
In the course of the struggle in which we had been engaged, we had been borne considerably out of the line of our first position, and now found that the main-road and the picquet of the rifles, were close in our rear. ❋ Various (N/A)
As the gate swung back upon its hinges with a clang, Jake's woolly head, surmounted by the veriest wisp of a ragged red handkerchief, disappeared behind the thick and impenetrable hedge of thorny cactus and spike - guarded prickly-pear that inclosed the plantation, separating it from the main-road forming its boundary and leading, some four miles or so beyond, over mountain and gully to Saint George's, the capital town of ❋ J. [Illustrator] Schonberg (N/A)
Sometimes the crossways joined the main-road that ran alongside the railway. ❋ Boris Pilniak (1915)
Sometimes the main-road is joined by the crossways, and from them to the main-road and over it passes the long vaunted Rising, the people's tumult, to sweep away the Unnecessary, then vanish back again into the crossways. ❋ Boris Pilniak (1915)
Then he was thrown off again, But there the main-road passed the railway; by turning aside from it, walking through a field, fording a river, making a way through the woods, skirting the ravines, trudging through river beds, and traversing the marshes he reached the village of Pochinki. ❋ Boris Pilniak (1915)
"It was pretty dark in the streets and I follered him along without his seeing me into the main-road and then down a turnin '..." ❋ Valentine Williams (1914)
Desmond, who hid lost his bearings somewhat in the course of his wanderings, came to a full stop irresolutely, where two streets crossed, thinking that he would retrace his footsteps to the main-road on the chance of picking up a taxi to take him back to town. ❋ Valentine Williams (1914)
Knowing as much about men as a mechanic of a main-road motor-repairing shop knows about engines, her examination was acute and thorough. ❋ Cosmo Hamilton (1910)
For miles about, the little sleigh explored the country: main-road, worn smooth by countless farmer-sleighs; by-roads, through which the pony had to wallow belly-deep, making a new track. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)
Leastways e was crawling toward the barricks, sir, past the main-road sentries; an the sentry e says, sir19 ❋ Unknown (1907)
That the Inland Customs dues of China are vexatious there can be no doubt; yet it is open to question if the combined duties of all the likin barriers on any one main-road extending from frontier to frontier of any single province in China are greater than the ad valorem duties imposed by our colony of Victoria upon the protected goods crossing her border from an adjoining colony. ❋ Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 (1895)
The party had turned off, as the dusk was falling, from the main-road into bridle-paths that they knew well, and were now approaching the village through the water meadows on the south-east side along a ride that would bring them, round the village, direct to the Dower House. ❋ Robert Hugh Benson (1892)
As a development of land ripe for building, with more yards of frontage to the main-road than at first sight geometry seems able to accommodate, it has been taking advantage of unrivalled opportunities for a quarter of a century, backed by advances on mortgage. ❋ William Frend De Morgan (1878)
It was already late when she turned into the main-road. ❋ M��r J��kai (1864)
"i will not make u [a hit] & [quit]"
"[are you sure]"
"on the main road" ❋ (2021)
