After the wagon containing the berry pickers had passed, he went across the field through the tall mustard weeds and climbing a rail fence peered anxiously along the
road to the town.
They had left the big
road and turned into a level plain which had formerly been an old meadow.
His only resource on such occasions, either to drown thought or drive away evil spirits, was to sing psalm tunes and the good people of Sleepy Hollow, as they sat by their doors of an evening, were often filled with awe at hearing his nasal melody, "in linked sweetness long drawn out," floating from the distant hill, or along the dusky
road.
As the child complained of hunger and thirst, she climbed over the fence with him; and, sitting down behind a large rock which concealed them from the
road, she gave him a breakfast out of her little package.
I can easily walk ten, fifteen, twenty, any number of miles, commencing at my own door, without going by any house, without crossing a
road except where the fox and the mink do: first along by the river, and then the brook, and then the meadow and the woodside.
Keep the river
road all the way, and next time you tramp take shoes and socks with you.
The old stage coach was rumbling along the dusty
road that runs from Maplewood to Riverboro.
My wife," said Defarge aloud, addressing Madame Defarge: "I have travelled certain leagues with this good mender of
roads, called Jacques.
The horsemen, therefore, soon overtook them on the
road.
Then he could not have retreated down the
road, and you say that there are no side
roads?
There are a good many
roads here," observed the shaggy man, turning slowly around, like a human windmill.
He agreed to build four farmhouses with a hundred acres of land attached to each, and promised to advance the sums required to pay for clearing the ground, for seeds, ploughing gear, and cattle, and for making occupation
roads.
