bridle road
Example Sentences
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A bridle road invites, but the thoroughfare being intercepted by brushwood and overhanging branches, it is not easy to effect a passage.
From The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba by Goodman, Walter
"I should learn everything then," she said to herself, still walking quickly along the bridle road through the wood.
From Middlemarch by Eliot, George
We cross the railway near a station, which, as a cottager told me is “Mr. Pease’s station; built for hisself, and not for everybody;” and take a bridle road leading to the hill.
From A Month in Yorkshire by White, Walter
From Martigny a bridle road branches off which leads across the Grand St Bernard to Aoste.
From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Frye, Major W. E
There is nothing for it but to take the bridle road up the hill, and try what we can discover on the other side.
From The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English by Castle, Egerton
