He came spurring and whooping down the road, his horse kicking up clouds of dust, shouting:

and in that brief interval, a redcoat officer came tearing down the road, whipping his horse fit to kill.

Rank after rank of them came down the road, and the faces were all the same, and they walked in a sea of dust.

The front of their column had already passed us, when another officer came riding down the side of the road, not five paces from where we were.

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.

'' Mark asked, and Abel lifted his eyes from the double lines in the middle of the road, the twin white ribbons which the car swallowed rapidly as it ascended the crest of the hill and came down.

Day after day Fogg shuttled back and forth on his one-man air mail route, until the farmers in their snowy barnyards and the road repairmen came to recognize the stubby plane as their link with the rest of the country.

On September 24, he and Brown, whose company was guarding the road between St. John's and Montreal, met at Longueuil, and, according to Allen's account of the events, came up with a plan in which both he and Brown would lead their forces to attack Montreal.

Munch wrote of how the painting came to be: " I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set ; suddenly, the sky turned as red as blood.

Travelling performers, itinerant traders and wandering craftsmen who spend most of their time " on the road " came to see their world as separate from those governed by legal authorities.

It was very hard for them to stay together in an economic hardship and the trade union movement came to a bump in the road.

The Brewers came out of the All-Star break with a bang as they won their first seven games back, all of them on the road, sweeping first the Giants and then the Cardinals, taking over first place in the Wild Card standings.

During the late Middle Ages it was an independent commune with considerable importance owing to its location on the old Via Francigena, the main road between France and Rome, but increasingly Montalcino came under the sway of the larger and more aggressive city of Siena.

Further hit singles came, including " Scarborough Fair / Canticle ", based on a traditional English ballad with an arrangement by Martin Carthy, and " Homeward Bound " ( later U. S. No. 5 ), about life on the road while Simon was touring in England in 1965.

The change came into force following a radio announcement at 5. 50 local time ( 16. 50 GMT ) which halted traffic and an announcement at 6. 00 ( 15. 00 GMT ) for traffic to switch from the right to the left side of the road.

Staind have been on the road since the album came out doing live shows and promoting it for a full year, including participating in the Fall Brawl tour with P. O. D., Taproot and Flyleaf, a solo tour across Europe and a mini-promotional tour in Australia for the first time.

Their first win came in 1977 on the road against the New Orleans Saints.

Gébelin further claimed that the name " tarot " came from the Egyptian words tar, meaning " royal ", and ro, meaning " road ", and that the Tarot therefore represented a " royal road " to wisdom.

However, in 2009, years of planning and joint involvement of Havant and Winchester councils came to fruition with the ' West of Waterlooville Major Development Area ' housing scheme, starting with Maurepas Roundabout, being enlarged to accommodate for a new road and increased traffic that comes with the new homes.

With land holding, taxes came due and new owners, in lieu of payment, were obliged to work 15 days per year on public projects, such as wharf construction, road building, etc.

Meanwhile the balloon came to rest atop a 60 foot dead fir tree in the forest near a local road.

The word turnpike came into common use in the names of these roadways and companies, and is essentially used interchangeably with toll road in current terminology.

Then in 1950 came the fast and dangerous Carrera Panamericana, a road race in stages across Mexico to celebrate the opening of the asphalt highway between the Guatemala and United States borders, which ran until 1954.

We were back on the road.

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.

A few minutes later the insurance man, a road checker, drove up in the gray coupe with license plates on it from a far-away state.

Sometimes they just parked at the side of the road and used radar on the trucks as they passed.

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.

Seeing their hesitation, I said, `` Well, until I have permission to enter Germany, or a visa to re-enter France, I shall be obliged to remain here on the line between two countries '', whereupon I moved to the side of the road, parked my backpack against the small guardhouse on the sidewalk, sat down, took out my typewriter, and began typing the above conversation.

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.

Certainly all can applaud passage of an auto title law, the school bills, the increase in teacher pensions, the ban on drag racing, acceptance by the state of responsibility for maintenance of state roads in municipalities at the same rate as outside city limits, repeal of the college age limit law and the road maintenance bond issue.

The road to a guaranteed-neutral, coup-proof Laos is today almost as difficult as warfare on that nation's terrain.

A road block to desirable local or borough improvements, heretofore dependent on the pocketbook vote of taxpayers and hence a drag on progress, is removed by making these a charge against the whole city instead of an assessment paid by those immediately affected.

And there, on the way, had been the box turtle, that slow, self-contained, world-ignoring relic of pre-history, bent, for reasons best known to itself, on crossing the road.

Here in the cool darkness Mr. Podger could still feel the warmth of midday, could still see the yellow butterflies dancing over the road, could still see the friendly grin on the young, sun-browned face as the driver looked back over his shoulder for a moment before the car streaked out of sight.

`` Sure, we met a barrel of rich men but it's hard to find the real thing when you're young, beautiful and the toast of two continents '' `` Remember Fanny Brice promised my mother she would look after me on the road ''??

The matter may seem a small thing to some people, I know, but it's a very good start on the road to Totalitarianism The Commission has posted signs in Washington Square saying:

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

Mynheer, Sir Francis, the valley society, the very smell of the river on his right purling along to the bay past fish weirs and rocks, and ahead the sleepy ribbon of moon-drenched road.

And what of that poor tarred and feathered wretch he had seen on the road driving down from Schuyler's??

`` Unless the oyabun has been working on it '', he said, then checked himself and added: `` You can tell Kayabashi-san that the back road is in very good condition and will be quite safe for his party to use ''.