A red-tailed hawk flew in behind them and stayed there, watching for any snakes or rabbits that they might stir up from the side of the road.

Slipping her hand in his, they silently watched the Burnsides make the bend in the road and disappear from sight.

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.

Just then Charles Lever yelled, `` Hey, Jack '', from the quarry road which ran behind the Carter house, and Jack grabbed the lunch from the table and darted out the kitchen door, yelling `` Good-bye, Mom '' over his shoulder.

Charles said as they picked their way over the rocky road which led up the hill away from the Dixie Highway, through a corn field and a patch of woods to the school.

To enter it, you go down five or six steps from the road.

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.

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.

We were less than a quarter of a mile from the road, and we could trace its shape from the ribbon of powder smoke and dust that hung over it.

Wherever you looked, you saw Committeemen running across the meadows, some away from the road, some toward it, some parallel to it ; ;

We ran east for about half a mile before we turned back to the road, panting from the effort and soaked with sweat.

Hearing his voice ring raucously up from the road, Kate would await him anxiously and watch perplexed as he walked into the house, cold sober.

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

Abel sat and regarded the farm country which, spreading out from both sides of the road, rolled greenly up to where the silent white houses and long barns and silos nested into the tilled fields.

'' 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.

Between the unsafe Towne field and the long roundabout back road haul that was necessary to gain access to Wilson flat, arrangements at the state capital were far from satisfactory.

But even before he started across the oiled road to his Plymouth, parked in the lot under the cypress trees across from the station, he knew that he wasn't going home.

Net earnings of that road rose from 62 per cent of interest requirements in calendar 1957 to 86 per cent in the 12 months ended Feb. 28, 1961.

He considered some interesting excursion but he was on the road every day from dawn to dusk.

Many companies are coming into the country from China and surrounding nations to help improve road surfaces.

The road between Lubango and Namibe, for example, was completed recently with funding from the European Union, and is comparable to many European main routes.

Someone also suggested that these large roads were used to quickly move an army from the canyon to the outlier communities, a purpose similar to the road systems known for the Roman empire.

The Port of Launceston is now located at Bell Bay, some by road from the city, on the east bank of the Tamar estuary, close to its mouth.

The main road through Camelford is the A39 ( Atlantic Highway ) and there is a thrice-daily Western Greyhound bus service from Newquay to Exeter via Launceston that serves the town.

A former agricultural market town, it lies at the intersection of the south-north A388 Saltash to Launceston road and the east-west A390 Tavistock to Liskeard road.

It is possible that Fatherford, in the north west of Belstone parish, was one stage in a Roman extension of the Fosse Way road from Exeter to Launceston.

Despite this road and those running through a few other passes, in general the escarpment impedes easy communication between the two countries.

From Sundsvall and further north, the road passes through most larger cities as city streets.

The A7 Edinburgh to Carlisle road passes through the town, with main roads also leading to Berwick upon Tweed ( the A698 ) and Newcastle upon Tyne ( the A6088, which joins the A68 at the Carter Bar, south-east of Hawick ).

This type of masonry is frequently used to protect the entrances and exits of water conduits where a road passes over a stream or dry wash.

It is also used to protect stream banks from erosion, especially where a road passes close by.

Between the two ends of the range, the only passes worth mentioning are the Col de la Perche, between the valley of the Têt and the valley of the Segre, the Port d ' Envalira, the highest mountain pass in the Pyrenees and one of the highest points of the European road network, and the Col de Somport or Port de Canfranc, where there were old Roman roads, but apparently, no modern highways.

For the purposes of the English law, Highways Act 1980, which covers England and Wales but not Scotland or Northern Ireland, the term road is defined to be " any length of highway or of any other road to which the public has access, and includes bridges over which a road passes.

Despite their height, however, the mountain system does not create a major barrier between the northern and the southern portions of the Meseta Central because several passes permit road and railroad transportation to the northwest and the northeast.

* July 27 – The British Parliament passes an act that permits bicycles on the road, on condition that they are equipped with a bell that should be rung while on the carriageway.

The east-to-west Helsinki – Turku motorway ( national road 1 ) passes Kauniainen to the south and the old Helsinki – Turku main road passes the northern parts of the town.

The new citadel or Neo Frourio ( Νέο Φρούριο, " New Fortress ") is a huge complex of fortifications dominating the northeastern part of the city ; the huge walls of the fortress dominate the landscape as one makes the trip from Neo Limani ( Νέο Λιμάνι, " New Port ") to the city, taking the road that passes through the fishmarket ( ψαραγορά ).

South of the town, the road passes through a short tunnel beneath Gibraltar Hill ; to the north east of the town, it follows the line of the Wye valley.

Lewis and Clark initially believed they had found a practical overland route to the west coast ; however, the two passes they found going through the Rocky Mountains, Lemhi Pass and Lolo Pass, turned out to be much too difficult for wagons to pass through without considerable road work.

The Dionysos-Nea Makri road, part of GR-83, passes through a traffic-light-controlled one-lane driveway on the crest of the dam wall.

In the first week in July, the Maratona dles Dolomites, an annual single-day road bicycle racing race covering seven mountain passes of the Dolomites, is staged.

The main road in the town is the A39 which passes through Glastonbury from Wells connecting the town with Street and the M5 motorway.

Komachi Ōji and Ima Kōji run respectively east and west of Wakamiya Ōji, while Yoko Ōji, the road that passes right under San no Torii, and Ōmachi Ōji, which goes from Kotsubo to Geba and Hase, run in the east – west direction.

This section passes through Douglas State Forest and is one of the most remote parts of the route that is still used as a public road.

The Prime Meridian passes through the eastern side of Boston, marked by the fairly modern, suburban Meridian Road (), which straddles the line the road was named after.

The A37 road passes through Shepton Mallet from north to south ; it follows the line of the Fosse Way between the south of the town and Ilchester.