bridle road

Example Sentences

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Appointments were made at the August session of 1775 "to view, and if they saw cause, to lay out a bridle road from the mouth of Bald Eagle Creek to the town of Sunbury."

From The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography by Wolf, George D.

Not far from where they landed a bridle road passed by, leading from the south.

From The Golden Grasshopper A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham by Kingston, William Henry Giles

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

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

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