wide place in the road
Example Sentences
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Born at what he calls a "wide place in the road" named Fair Play, S.C.
From Time Magazine Archive
But in the whole fifteen miles they met only one other motor, and fortunately that was at a wide place in the road.
From The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice or, Solving a Wireless Mystery by Chapman, Allen
They still exist on the blueprint and the Oklahoma metropolis on paper is yet a wide place in the road.
From The University of Hard Knocks by Parlette, Ralph
When they had gone far enough, and had reached a wide place in the road, Mrs. Cliff turned and started back to Plainton.
From Mrs. Cliff's Yacht by Stockton, Frank Richard
