At the office, he cleaned out the paperwork in his in-basket, drove a sick female inmate from the jail to the hospital, ate lunch, shot a game of pool in the saloon, placed an ad for a road-gang guard in the newspaper eight dollars an hour, no benefits, must not be an ex-felon, and returned home for supper. ❋ James Lee Burke (2009)
Taking the advice of the road-gang we crossed the frail suspension bridge (which the Indians had most ingeniously constructed out of logs and pieces of old telegraph wire) and started down the west side of the river. ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)
"Why is it, do you suppose, that the road-gang ahead of us haven't left a single sign, not even a word as to where we are?" ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)
They led us to the edge of the village and showed us where the road-gang had set their tent, and we soon had a fire going in our little stove, which was the amazement and delight of a circle of men, women, and children, but they were not intrusive and asked for nothing. ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)
The trail was difficult to follow, because in the open ground each man before us had to take his own course, and there were few signs to mark the line the road-gang had taken. ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)
This brought us to the first notice on the trail which was signed by the road-gang, an ambiguous scrawl to the effect that feed was to be very scarce for a long, long way, and that we should feed our horses before going forward. ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)
We had been warned that the Bulkley River was a bad stream to cross, -- in fact, the road-gang had cut a new trail in order to avoid it, -- that is to say, they kept to the right around the sharp elbow which the river makes at this point, whereas the old trail cut directly across the elbow, making two crossings. ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)
Some of them were profane assaults upon the road-gang. ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)
The old man expressed the feeling of those of us who were too shy and delicate of speech to do it justice, and we led him on to most satisfying blasphemy of the land and the road-gang. ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)
One painful sight was a road-gang of convicts chained by the legs. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
Ben sometimes wished himself back with the road-gang. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
He hasn’t a moment to devote to his road-gang for he must help the Gypsy Alexander and the gardener Steffen with the cementing of this floor, though these two in turn are likewise hard-pressed, the one with his smoking of salmon, the other with the necessity of hilling the potatoes and weeding out the turnip beds. ❋ Unknown (2003)
"Yes, there's that road-gang sent out to put this trail into shape -- what have they done? ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)
