158 Metaphors for road

We must discover which road is the best and then take it.

Rough, steep roads, perhaps?" "Whatever kind, of roads they may be," said Katie, with the steadiness and the fervor of a devotee repeating a prayer.

The first and most momentous of these is that such a road would be a powerful bond of union between the States east and west of the Rocky Mountains.

The road was, I believe, the first successful passenger railway in America, and was sixteen miles long, with two inclined planes up which the trains were drawn, and down which they were lowered by cables.

It was a narrow gauge road and the rails were small and the road was dirt.

I doubt if a single tumble-down wall had been replacedthe dirt and smells still remained, and the roads were no smoother.

Asked the boy of his companion, "Friend, why is this road where we walk so thorny, and that other yonder so smooth?" Said the Lord, "Hush, child, it is not fitting to disturb the peace of this place, but I will tell you.

The road was a deep, red sand, and our mules toiled along slowly and painfully, urged by the incessant cries of the mayoral, or conductor, and his mozo.

The road is a fine wide macadam, somewhat rolling as South Bend is approached.

"These two roads," he began, tracing the windings of a couple of thin red lines on the map with the point of his finger, "are the only two made ones that lead in and out of the district.

The road towards Pahlgam is a charming woodland walk, where the wild strawberries, still hardly out of flower, grow thick amidst a tangle of chestnut, yew, wild cherry, and flowering shrubs.

From Rolla to Lebanon the roads were badmuddy in the valleys of the streams, and on the higher ground frozen into inequalities like a gigantic rasp.

The road was rough and hilly, her new horse and vehicle in keeping with the rudeness of the routeby far the most difficult of her whole journey.

We left St. Catharines at nine o'clock Sunday morning, taking the old Dundas road; this was a mistake, the direct road to Hamilton being the better.

The Deptford road, I imagine, will be the right direction to hear of a passage, and to get safely aboard.

A road which seems most seductive on the bicycler's road map may be a sea of sand or a veritable quagmire, but with a fine bicycle path at the side.

At the end of these two miles the valley itself branched into two and climbed inland, the road branching likewise; and M. Benest's mark was the signpost at the angle.

The road from Pittsfield to Lenox is a famous drive, one of the wonders of that little world.

Through Wickliff, Willoughby, and Mentor the road is a smooth, hard gravel.

The Bayonne road is the boundary on the opposite side from the river, and just beyond the limits of the Park a path branches off river-wards to the Billères Plains, where tennis and golf are played.

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The corduroy road through the heavily wooded swamp which the 3rd Zouaves now followed was the only inlet to the noisy scene of local action, and the only outlet, too.

The road leading from this place to Coventry is an excellent turnpike, just as that is from Stratford hither, and has a splendid gravel walk for pedestrians on one side, and a riding path for those on horseback, on the other side.

Come on, then, and fear not; the road to suc-cess is o-pen to you, as it al-ways is to in-dus-tr-ious re-so-lu-tion.

The road was a fairy-tale brightly illuminated by plantation, jungle, and garden, by reef and eyot.

158 Metaphors for  road