When the station wagon drew abreast of the dusty dirt road that led up to the porch of the Culver house, Pamela turned the wheel, guiding the car to its familiar parking spot close to the house, and stopped.

And Jarrodsville was more than three miles away, down an old dirt road that the rain had turned into a quagmire.

We did 80 miles an hour across a hard dirt road to a cluster of shacks.

I drove out of the Harbor, turned off into a dirt road among the scrub pine trees and stopped.

# Car: Grief-stricken over Maude's death, Harold drives his Jaguar / hearse recklessly up a winding dirt road, sending it flying off a cliff to the rocks below.

The road network was estimated to be around 31, 200 km in 1999 up from between 23, 000 and 30, 000 km in 1990, of which only 1, 717 kilometers — 7. 5 percent — are paved ; the rest are of dirt, crushed stone, or gravel, and are poorly maintained.

Nauru has one 24 km paved road that circles the island and a dirt track that leads to the Nauru Phosphate Corporation stockpile and offices.

The condition of these roads was until recently very poor, with numerous pot-holes and vehicles often driving on the dirt verges since these were deemed smoother than the road itself.

Vanuatu's undeveloped road system, with fewer than 100 miles of paved roads, consists mostly of dirt tracks suitable only for four-wheel-drive vehicles.

If the sound editor wants to communicate that a driver is in a hurry to leave, he will cut the sound of tires squealing when the car accelerates from a stop ; even if the car is on a dirt road, the effect will work if the audience is dramatically engaged.

There were only nine buildings and a dirt road connecting the main campus to the housing units.

The Skywalk has seen mixed reviews since the site is only accessible by driving down a dirt road, costs a minimum of $ 85 in total for reservation fees, a tour package and admission to the Skywalk itself and the fact that cameras or other personal equipment are not permitted on the Skywalk at any time due to the hazard of damaging the glass if dropped.

The road began as a leveled dirt road upon which small stones and mortar were laid.

The Romans built a high-quality road, with layers of cemented stone over a layer of small stones, crowned, drainage ditches on either side, low retaining walls on sunken portions, and dirt pathways for sidewalks.

In American law, the word " highway " is sometimes used to denote any public way used for travel, whether major highway, freeway, turnpike, street, lane, alley, pathway, dirt track, footpaths, and trails, and navigable waterways ; however, in practical and useful meaning, a " highway " is a major and significant, well-constructed road that is capable of carrying reasonably heavy to extremely heavy traffic.

Jefferson concurred, and while the " grand avenue " was little more than a wide dirt road ridiculed as " The Great Serbonian Bog ", he planted it with rows of fast-growing Lombardy poplars.

The first methods of road transport were horses, oxen or even humans carrying goods over dirt tracks that often followed game trails.

The people thought Bryant would head up the road, so instead they proceeded on foot down a dirt side road and hid in the bush.

< TD > Pas de la Cavale < td > Vallouise to Champoléon < td > dirt road </ TD >

< TD > Col du Fréjus < TD > Bardonecchia to Modane < TD > dirt road </ TD >

Horse and cart stand nearby, with dirt road leading off into the distance.

In Australia, the term track can be used interchangeably with trail, and can refer to anything from a dirt road to an unpaved pedestrian path.

Another, a weather-eroded sandstone arch with a dirt road on top is located on the edge of Natural Bridge State Resort Park in Kentucky.

His brown face looked gray from dirt streaks where his hand had come off the dusty pavement and rubbed across it.

She was personally sloppy, and when she had colds would blow her nose in the same handkerchief all day and keep it, soaking wet, dangling from her waist, and when she gardened she would eat dinner with dirt on her calves.

Also, the light sources are shielded from dirt and weather exposure and cannot obstruct the view of the sign.

point of view, are the beautiful, full-figured women like Daisy Mae, Wolf Gal, Stupefyin ' Jones and Moonbeam McSwine ( a caricature of his wife Catherine, aside from the dirt )— all of whom found their way onto the painted noses of bomber planes during World War II and the Korean War.

In settling the American west it was generally faster to navigate down River from Brownsville, Pennsylvania, to the Ohio River confluence with the Mississippi and then pole up river against the current to St Louis than to travel overland on the rare primitive dirt roads for many decades after the American revolution.

They offer the advantage of re-engaging without additional user input, but being spring-loaded are prone to both spring fatigue and their more complex mechanisms becoming balky from dirt, ice, or other contamination.

The running track was used for dirt track racing between 1928 and 1932, greyhound racing from 1933 to 1968, and Midget car racing in 1948.

In the case of the ears, this is to keep grass seeds, dirt, and other matter from entering the ear canal.

A long dirt path extended west from the riverbank ( a short distance north of the eta districts ), leading along the northern edge of the city to the Yoshiwara pleasure districts.

Enki immediately expresses concern and dispatches his Galla demons, Galaturra or Kurgarra, sexless beings created from the dirt from beneath the god's finger-nails, to recover the young goddess.

The cars were sent directly to Shelby, still bearing the dirt and damage from the Nassau race.

In September 2006, the European Parliament issued the European Commission to create urban environment policies to prevent and eliminate dirt, litter, graffiti, animals ' excrement and excessive noise from domestic and vehicular music systems in European cities, along with other concerns over urban life.

Eyelashes and eyebrows help to protect the eyes from dust, dirt, and sweat

The eyebrows provide some protection to the eyes from dirt, sweat, and rain.

The eyelash grows at the edges of the eyelid and protects the eye from dirt.

Maroger medium which is not made properly may contain a large amount of dirt and impurities from improperly filtered mastic varnish, or the black oil may be overcooked, both of which would contribute to darkening and weakening of the work.

Since mining entails removing dirt and rock from its natural location creating large empty pits, rooms and tunnels, cave-ins as well as ground and rock falls are a major concern within mines.

Other roads range from all-weather laterite surfaces to grated dirt or sand Pistes, especially in the desert north.

26 towards Abala, veers off onto a dirt track ( locally called a Piste ) from the villages of Talcho to Sanam, where RN26 also terminates from another direction.

It will offer the user the full protection on their walls from dirt, moisture, stains, etc.

The Überzug was intended to protect the helmet from dirt and reduce its combat visibility, as the brass and silver fittings on the Pickelhaube proved to be highly reflective.

If for some reason the researcher or archivist does need to handle the actual photo, perhaps to examine the verso for writing, he or she can use gloves if there appears to be a risk from oils or dirt on the hands.