The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

The car was just about to us, its driver's fat, solemn face intent on the road ahead, on business, on a family in Sante Fe -- on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human beings desperately needed rescue.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

We followed the asphalt road for a few miles and then swung off onto a smaller road which was nothing more than two tire marks on the earth.

In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.

Many years later I went to see S.K. in England, where he was living at Whiteleaf, near Aylesbury, and he showed me beside his cottage there the remains of the road on which Boadicea is supposed to have travelled.

The gunfire, which was so near that it seemed just a piece up the road now, stopped for long enough to count to twenty ; ;

And now the redcoats were coming, and the gunfire was a part of the dust cloud on the road to the west of us.

In my recollection, there was a long interval between the death of the officer and the appearance of the first of the retreating redcoats, and in that interval the dust cloud over the road seems to hover indefinitely.

One moment, the road was filled with disciplined troops, marching four by four with a purpose as implacable as death ; ;

Their only hope of survival was to hold to the road and keep marching.

A dozen cows mooed sadly and regarded us as if we were insane, as perhaps we were at that moment, with the crazy excitement of our first encounter, the yelling and shooting still continuing up at the road, and the thirst of some of the men, which was so great that they waded into the muddy water and scooped up handfuls of it.

I was drunk with excitement and the smell of gunpowder that came floating down from the road, and the fact that I was not afraid now, but only waiting to know what to do next.

While this was being discussed, we saw the militia to the west of us fanning out and breaking into little clusters of two and three men as they approached the road.

There was a clump of trees that appeared to provide cover right up to the road, and the shouting and gunfire never slackened.

The road leading south along the river was shaded with old trees, and in the moonlight the silvery landscape was like a setting for trolls and wood gods rather than the Hudson River Valley of his boyhood memories.

But he did not notice, and was already backing the car down to the road, saying `` Toot-toot ''!!

It was a Cadillac, black grayed with the dust of the road, its windows closed tight so you knew that the people who climbed out of it would be cool and unwrinkled.

one fork of the road was as good as another.

At the moment, Barco's back was to the road so he didn't see the detectives close in on his convertible which, in their quest for the stolen lap rug, they proceeded to search.

Enzo Ferrari wasn't initially interested in the idea of producing road cars when he formed Scuderia Ferrari ( literally " Ferrari Stable ", and usually used to mean " Team Ferrari ", it is correctly pronounced ) in 1928 as a sponsor for amateur drivers headquartered in Modena.

Mutley Plain lies on the route of an ancient road linking Bilburgh, a Bronze Age settlement on the coast at Sutton Pool which later formed the nucleus of the city of Plymouth, to the north.

A highway connecting the principal cities of Herat, Kandahar, Ghazni, and Kabul with links to highways in neighboring Pakistan formed the primary road system.

The town formed around the old A3 London to Portsmouth road.

Other illustrative examples ( below ) include 榊 sakaki tree, formed as 木 " tree " and 神 " god ", literally " divine tree ", and 辻 tsuji " crossroads, street " formed as 辶 (⻌) " road " and 十 " cross ", hence " cross-road ".

The frontage of the Rounceval property caused the narrowing at the end of the Whitehall entry to Charing Cross, and formed the section of Whitehall formerly known as Charing Cross, until road widening in the 1930s caused the rebuilding of the south side of the street – creating the current wide thoroughfare.

High Street formed the leading road from the East Bank to the East Coast of Demerara.

The first road was probably High Street, which formed the wide market place to the east of the castle gates.

In April 1970, Fred Gardner, Fonda, and Donald Sutherland formed the FTA tour (" Free The Army ", a play on the troop expression " Fuck The Army "), an anti-war road show designed as an answer to Bob Hope's USO tour.

It was formed from the part of the ( hitherto larger ) Seine department to the north and north-east of the Paris ring road ( and the line of the old city walls ), together with a small slice taken from Seine-et-Oise.

Positioned to the south-east of the Paris ring road ( and the line of the old city walls ), it was formed from the southern-eastern part of the ( previously much larger ) Seine department, together with a small portion taken from the broken-up department of Seine-et-Oise.

Archeological excavations at Link Street exposed a building dating to the 11th or 12th century suggesting that Homerton existed before it was first recorded in 1343 .< ref >< cite > MoLAS ( TQ 3534 8504 summary of archeological investigation at Link St ) accessed: 20 October 2006 </ ref > The hamlet of Homerton ( Humberton or Hummerton, named for the farm of a woman named Hunburh ) developed for about a half-mile along the road on the north side of the now buried and lost Hackney Brook, within the vale formed by the brook.

Roman roads formed the parish's north-eastern and southern boundaries from Marble Arch: Watling Street ( later Edgware Road ) and the Uxbridge road, known by the 1860s as Bayswater Road.

After a spate of serious accidents on the bend in the road, the neighbours formed a group in the 1850s called Trustees of the Road.

Most of the eastern border is formed by the Roman road Watling Street, now the modern A5.

It is mostly flat and well formed ( although unsealed ) and being a former road averages 4 to 5 metres ( 12 to 18 feet ) in width.

Including the Airline Highway between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Long's road network gave Louisiana some of the most modern roads in the country and formed the state's highway system.

County residents formed the Newport and Alexandria Turnpike Company to improve the road ; the improved turnpike opened in 1856 under the name Alexandria Pike.

Sassenheim was formed between the towns of Leiden and Lisse on the eastern edge of the old coastal dunes where the main road from Leiden to Haarlem was located.

The village of Ashford was formed from some of these portions, named for the main road.

Note the ' grid squares thus formed are far larger than the city blocks described earlier, and the road layouts within the grid squares are generally ' organic ' in form — matching the ' street hierarchy model described above

In 1701 construction began on the Baltimore Pike ; the road was formed of sturdy oak planks, some of which still exist under the current Baltimore Pike.

In the north-east of the island of Rügen is formed by the peninsula of Jasmund, which is joined to the heart of the island, Muttland, by the bar of Schmale Heide between Binz-Prora and Sassnitz-Mukran and by a rail and road embankment at Lietzow.

The Chrysler gear-reduction starter formed the conceptual basis for the gear-reduction starters that now predominate in vehicles on the road.