Turnpikes

We were stopped at least three times at barriers or gates, here called turnpikes, to pay a duty or toll which, however small, as being generally paid in their copper coinage, in the end amounted to some shillings. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The turnpikes were a vital avenue of trade and settlement in the years before the Civil War and important for logistics and troop movements during the war. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"That's all the kind of turnpikes your mamma knew any thing about, I reckon," said Miss Fortune, in a tone that conveyed the notion that Mrs. Montgomery's education had been very incomplete. ❋ Unknown (1892)

"That's all the kind of turnpikes your Mamma knew anything about, I reckon," said Miss Fortune, in a tone that conveyed the notion that Mrs. Montgomery's education had been very incomplete. ❋ Susan Warner (1852)

"That's all the kind of turnpikes your mamma knew anything about, I reckon," said Miss Fortune, in a tone that conveyed the notion that Mrs. Montgomery's education had been very incomplete. ❋ Susan Warner (1852)

"turnpikes" were built by private companies, which charged tolls for their use. ❋ Arthur William Dunn (1897)

So evil that the rings of her trunk had burned backwards in time, the branches of her arms, scarred by pink ribbons which made parallel highways with the turnpikes of her blue veins. ❋ Amy Geeleher Burt (2011)

It would have doubled the capacity of trains between New Jersey and New York, easing traffic on New Jersey's turnpikes. ❋ Joel Epstein (2010)

Our very first corporate charters were granted by the states to induce private individuals to join together to build large infrastructure projects like bridges and turnpikes. ❋ Al Checchi (2011)

And so Ms. Guldi goes beyond the turnpikes and the trigonometry and tries to make a general point about the need for state involvement in infrastructure. ❋ Daniel Hannan (2012)

So the familiar red, white and blue badge of Interstate 95 would continue unbroken, even when it shares the road with the Pennsylvania and New Jersey turnpikes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Second by spending their rainy day funds when it was only cloudy, borrowing against future revenues (notably from the huge tobacco settlement) and privatizing revenue earners like turnpikes by selling them for cash up front to increase current spending and by spending the capital gains tax bonanzas from various bubbles as if they were recurrent income. ❋ Robert Zevin (2010)

Magic kingdoms and dinosaur sculptures and turnpikes and strip-mall sprawl cover the horizon now, but I wanted to see if something of Hurston's Florida bore any resemblance to the Florida of today. ❋ Rebecca Bengal (2010)