Roadmaker

At Sermaize, the roadmaker Brocard was placed among a number of hostages. ❋ Various (N/A)

Fremont, the pathfinder and roadmaker of the West, surveyed the great ❋ Helen Elliott Bandini (N/A)

Sutherland and of Caithness respectively, Mr. Curle has classified their visible remains, and may, let us hope, with the aid of legislation, save those relics from the roadmaker or dykebuilder. ❋ James Gray (N/A)

Knut Hamsun was in his day a shoemaker's apprentice, a coal heaver, a roadmaker, a farm hand and a street car conductor. ❋ Unknown (1923)

For below the hill lies Runemede, and it needs the filmy gauze of mist to spread the meadows and trees of the Thames banks into a green carpet, untouched with the mark of the builder and the roadmaker. ❋ Eric Parker (1912)

The rock on which the effect of a mountain scene especially depends is always precisely that which the roadmaker blasts or the landlord quarries; and the spot of green which Nature left with a special purpose by her dark forest sides, and finished with her most delicate grasses, is always that which the farmer ploughs or builds upon. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

a wide green lane, afterwards a narrow path sometimes half-choked by trees, sometimes, in wet weather, impassable with mud, but always driving straight as the Roman roadmaker drove his pick towards the cap of Mickleham Downs. ❋ Eric Parker (1912)

"At Sermaize, the roadmaker, Brocard, was placed among a number of hostages. ❋ Richard Joseph Beamish (1895)