26 Metaphors for lanes

Altogether the lane was an unwholesome spot to stand about in.

A narrow lane or path between two walls is a "tuer" in Gloucestershire vernacular.

The lane between me and the Thames is the only safe road I know at present, for it is up to the middle of the horses in water.

The lane which ran into the main road was a blind alley.

And the lane was rather flinty and the lane was rather long, When, up and down the gentle hills beside the stripling Test, I chanced to come to Bullington and stayed a while to rest.

The dilapidated house and barn had given place to modern buildings; apple, pear, and peach-trees, covered with fragrant blossoms were substituted for their decayed and skeleton prototypes; the narrow, crooked, muddy lane, where horses and wagons had struggled through the knee-deep, and often hub-deep sticky clay, had become a firm and fairly straight highway.

But the lane which is the straight way and its continuation in the footpath across Swanscombe Park is undoubtedly the line of the Roman road and in all probability the route of Chaucer.

"What a nuisance that lane is, so near the garden!

These lanes are over 100 yards in width and cover a total length of 940 miles....

"Sally Lane is such a bad hostess she says insulting things to her guests.

Morgianna Lane was the brightest gem in the little Maryland village.

The Candid Courtship (LANE) is a story full of good talk; by which I do not at all mean brilliant epigram and verbal fireworks, but direct and genuine conversation, just so far manipulated by the author that it advances the business in hand without becoming artificial.

Cow-lane is behind the ageand that musty!

"Miss Lane in herself is a sufficient illustration of the opposite doctrine.

"Lane was gettin' troubled about yuh," he said, as he turned the horses and peered curiously up at her.

But the lane might have been the Desert of Sahara, for all she knew of it; and she would have passed her father as unconcernedly as if he had been an apple-tree, had he not called out, "Stand and deliver, little woman!"

A long lane to any one, was such waiting, lighted, for Anna, only by a faint reflection of that luster of big generals' strategy and that invincibility of the Southern heart which, to all New Orleans and even to nations beyond seas, clad Dixie's every gain in light and hid her gravest disasters in beguiling shadow.

Captain Lane was an old sea-dog and had witnessed many strange phenomena on the ocean; but never had he seen a squall approach so singularly.

Her father was one of the wealthiest merchants in the city; and one day when Lane was only nineteen he met Mary.

* * FAITOUR LANE, Or as it is now called, Fetter Lane, is a term used by Chaucer, for an idle fellow.

The last slow travel of his squad over dark, barren space and through deep, narrow, winding lanes in the ground had been a nightmare ending to the long journey.

Although in 1738 and 1739 Wesley and his followers frequented the Moravian meeting-house in Neville's Court, Fetter Lane, the first home of organised Methodism in London was the Foundry in Moorfields.

The lane was a very cool and pleasant place.

He had no wife and children to greet him on his return, for Lane was a bachelor.

In flint and marble beats a heart, The kind Earth takes her children's part, The green lane is the school-boy's friend, Low leaves his quarrel apprehend, The fresh ground loves his top and ball, The air rings jocund to his call, The brimming brook invites a leap, He dives the hollow, climbs the steep.

26 Metaphors for  lanes