4509 examples of lanes in sentences

The roads in fact were and are, little more than lanes between the isolated woods across the low scrub of the old Weald.

The reeds, called tules, are ghostly pale in winter, in summer deep poisonous-looking green, the waters thick and brown; the reed beds breaking into dingy pools, clumps of rotting willows, narrow winding water lanes and sinking paths.

The lanes I sought, and, as the sun retired, Came where beneath the trees a faggot blazed; The travellers saw me weep, my fate inquired, And gave me foodand rest, more welcome, more desired.

His felucca is in the port, thou sayest, and thou canst lead him hither by the secret door and the lanes.

China then enjoyed hackney coaches, tea gardens, and hilarity; while the delights of European capitals were processions of monks among perpetual dunghills in narrow crooked lanes.

How often and sadly we repeat the life story of the yellow dodder of the moist lanes of my lower farm.

It drove sheep along the lanes of the striped blanket.

He departed not by the regular roads, but by the by-lanes, in the robe of a general; and on that very self-same day he trumped up a countless number of resolutions of the senate; all of which he published even before they were drawn up.

It was, not this which took so much of Robin's attention, but the seven or eight little dark balls which followed it out along one of the lanes of open water, swimming here and there and making dabs with their little beaks at the insects gliding about the top.

I know not why one should sigh after the blossoming gorges of the Himalaya, when our forests are all so crowded with this glowing magnificence,rounding the tangled swamps into smoothness, lighting up the underwoods, overtopping the pastures, lining the rural lanes, and rearing its great pinkish masses till they meet overhead.

First you swing across the Tiber In a ferry-boat that floats you in a minute from the crowd; Then through high-hedged lanes you saunter; then by fields and sunny pastures; And beyond, the wondrous dome uprises like a golden cloud.

Who but an addle-headed sot would have wandered up and down the lanes, like Morland, chalking out pigs and milkmaids, when he might have been painting, like Barry, pictures, by the acre, of gods and goddesses enacting incomprehensible allegories!

I can almost believe it to be the same wren that kept up with me years ago in English lanes, and since then has travelled with me so many miles in France, vanishing for long periods, but reappearing as if by enchantment in some roadside hedge, its eyes bright with recognition, and every movement friendly.

Take, for instance, the supply of London with good water, which the most utter dunderhead must admit to be most desirable; yet the influence of vested interests is so strong that its two millions of inhabitants seem destined to be poisoned for centuries, and the lanes and courts will, in all probability, continue as arid as the desert during the same period.

After traversing some dirty lanes, the doctor and his escort arrived at a narrow alley"What the Dl is all this," said Radcliffe, "your colonel don't live here?""No," said his military friend,"no, my colonel does not live

Some wandering hand in hand through arched lanes; Some listening for loved voices at the lattice; Some steeped in dainty dreams of untried bliss; Some nestling soft and deep in well-known arms, Whose touch makes sleep rich life.

O'REILLY'S BILLY-GOAT A solemn Sabbath stillness lies along the Mudville lanes, Among the crags of Shantytown a peaceful quiet reigns, For down upon McCarty's dump, in fiery fight for fame, The Shanties meet the Mudvilles in the final pennant game; And heedless of the frantic fray, in center field remote, Behind the biggest ash-heap lies O'Reilly's billy-goat.

For smooth is the road for the few, my dear, And wide are the ways they roam: Our feet are led where the millions tread, In the worn, old lanes of home.

A cloud of cinder-dotted smoke, whose billows rise and swell A solemn Sabbath stillness lies along the Mudville lanes A stretch of hill and valley, swathed thick in robes of white Almost every other evenin', jest as reg'lar as the clock "Blessed are the poor in spirit": there, I'll just remember that Climb to my knee, little boy, little boy,

''He also went through all the streets, and lanes of the city;' that is, 'Through all the streets, and through all the lanes,' &c."Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 219.

''He also went through all the streets, and lanes of the city;' that is, 'Through all the streets, and through all the lanes,' &c."Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 219.

But the last, (which is of,) has two antecedents, streets and lanes, the comma after streets being wrong; for the author does not speak of all the streets in the world, but of all the streets and lanes of a particular city.

But the last, (which is of,) has two antecedents, streets and lanes, the comma after streets being wrong; for the author does not speak of all the streets in the world, but of all the streets and lanes of a particular city.

Had the author explained the second example according to his notion of the first, he should have made it to mean, 'He also went through all the streets of the city, and he also went through all the lanes of the city.'

Sea lanes In wartime.

4509 examples of  lanes  in sentences