Mam's voice travels over the tarmacadam ribbon, across the road and up the lane into Hollie's Plant Hire company. ❋ James Claffey (2011)
Their roots had escaped up through the tarmacadam in many places; covered by fallen leaves and the propellers of sycamore seeds, they tripped the unwary. ❋ A. D. Scott (2010)
Apart from a few tufts of grass that had breached the pitted tarmacadam, the place looked devoid of life. ❋ Unknown (2009)
We drain the marshland, pour acres upon acres of tarmacadam, divide land-migrating animals and low flying bats from their desired plots and hideouts, we remove habitat without realizing that is the greatest 'sin' against wildlife. ❋ Glyn Davies (2008)
The pre-vailing westerlies will banish that Saharan breeze and Belfast will become again the dour northern town of bricks, slate, and tarmacadam. ❋ Adrian McKinty (2007)
But in fairness, the vision of the early comprehensives was that, by reason of their much greater size, they would be able to offer the full range of teaching, from A-level Latin and Greek at one end to tarmacadam studies at the other. ❋ Unknown (2007)
After a moment, they vanished too – and we were descending fast through the palms, the pot-marked tarmacadam rising up to meet us, the sun incandescent, unforgiving. ❋ Douglas Kennedy (2006)
And then, suddenly below us, was a circle of tarmacadam, with a large X in its centre. ❋ Douglas Kennedy (2006)
Neither past nor future existed for me, only that eternal present, and it was good; the sun shone on the high roofs of Edinburgh, the summers were so hot the tarmacadam melted {it did — I remember it}, and in winter it snowed; my father was ten feet tall at least, and my mother was infinitely kind and gentle. ❋ Mackay, Colin (2003)
They came to where a dry, hard-earth track met the roadside on the left, the chevrons of mucky tractor tyre-tracks arcing out across the tarmacadam in both directions. ❋ Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- (1997)
Ordinary tarmacadam, ordinary air, ordinary everything. ❋ Adams, Douglas, 1952- (1988)
In the mirror the gun flashed again and the sharp crack was echoed as a rear tire burst, and already I was fighting instinctively to keep on a straight course as the whole tire broke up and jammed the wheel rim and sent the E-type slewing badly without any hope of correction because the rim was plowing into the tarmacadam. ❋ Hall, Adam (1966)
In still air the sound of hooves on tarmacadam would carry clearly, and I did not want the taxi-drivers round the nearby bends to hear me crossing the road. ❋ Francis, Dick (1962)
First wee get thee women, then wee get thee gold, and then wee disrupt traditional English values by stealing their jobs, standing around drinking Guinness and frighthening old ladies - who've lived through The War - and installing clumsily laid tarmacadam front driveways. ❋ Roy Greenslade (2011)
The previous Golf's 2. 0-litre, 200 bhp engine with direct injection and a turbocharger was one of its best features, while the loud roar from the tyres over coarse British tarmacadam was one of its worst. ❋ Unknown (2009)
And listen, Ill have a word with the lads in the council about laying down some tarmacadam on your drive there, if ya give us a vote. ❋ Unknown (2009)
So you have on one side, modern apartments, well tended and watered green lawns with the water sprayers hissing in the heat, lots of cars and sterile spotless tarmacadam. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The previous Golf's two-litre, 147kW engine with direct injection and a turbocharger was one of its best features while the loud roar from the tyres over coarse British tarmacadam was one of its worst. ❋ Unknown (2009)
