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The road is featured briefly in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows when Harry and his friends were escaping from Death Eaters, by J. K. Rowling ; The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins ; Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf ; Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw and its musical adaptation, My Fair Lady ; Saturday and Atonement by Ian McEwan ; several Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; the Saki story Reginald on Christmas Presents ; several stories by John Collier ; A Room with a View by E. M. Forster ; The London Eye Mystery, The Late Mr Elvesham by Herbert G. Wells by Siobhan Dowd ; The Wish House by Celia Rees ; a The Matrix-based story, Goliath by Neil Gaiman ; features often in novels by Mark Billingham and The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon.
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The road, a comparatively new one, is very good, winding along inlets, coves, and bays of deep and brilliant blue.
Across the road is the kitchen, and waiters bearing great trays of dishes dodge traffic as nimbly as their French colleagues at the restaurant in the Place Du Tertre in Paris.
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 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.
`` 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 ''.
This system is divided into a forest highway system, administered by the Secretary of Commerce, and a forest development road and trail system, administered by the Secretary of Agriculture.
The existence of road systems permits an intensity of management and use for all National Forest purposes that is not otherwise possible.
An almost too-simple-to-be-true way to set forth on such adventures is just to put yourself behind the wheel of a car and head for the open road.
Look Jed, this is an open and shut case and I have to relieve my men at the road block soon.
A Highway Department source said there also is a plan there to issue some $3 million to $4 million worth of Rural Roads Authority bonds for rural road construction work.
The house is on Old Annapolis road a mile south of Severna Park, at Jones Station, police said.
If nothing is done, the prospect is that that road will be in default of interest in 1962.
It is a land of long fjords, few people, a single-lane road miles away -- and of wild stags, Greylag geese, wild swans, dolphins and porpoises playing in the waters.
Or you could wish your daddy would really do it -- kill Gratt Shafer like he said when you all the time, all along, could feel the nerve draining out of him like air out of a punctured tire when you are on a muddy road alone and it is raining and at night.
The primary use of asphalt is in road construction, where it is used as the glue or binder mixed with aggregate particles to create asphalt concrete.
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.
Progress to complete the road infrastructure is likely to take some decades, but substantial efforts are already being made in the right directions.
The economic purpose of the Chaco road system is shown by the presence of luxury items at Pueblo Bonito and elsewhere in the canyon.
Armenia's main rail and road border-crossing with Georgia ( at ) is along the Debed river near the Armenian town of Bagratashen and the Georgian town of Sadakhlo.
The McMurdo – South Pole Highway is a 900-mile ( 1450 km ) road in Antarctica linking the United States McMurdo Station on the coast to the Amundsen – Scott South Pole Station.
No larger settlements, however, have been found to have existed in this remote rural area, located at least 15 km from the nearest road even in Roman times, up to the early medieval period when the place is mentioned as a king's mansion for the first time, not long before Charlemagne became ruler of the Germanic Franks.
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This version also featured a different more powerful V-12 engine and civilian road wheels to increase the vehicles top speed capabilities in urban areas.
In 2002, the Saints wore black pants with their white jerseys ( except for the final road game, a 20 – 13 loss in Cincinnati when they went back to the gold pants ), and gold pants with their black jerseys, a gold alternate jersey, and a 1967-style throwback uniform, complete with an accurate 1967-era helmet which featured a larger fleur-de-lis, a darker shade of gold and grey facemasks.
The marathon is the only road running event featured at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics and the Summer Olympics, although there is also an annual IAAF World Half Marathon Championships.
The marathon is also the only road running event featured at the IPC Athletics World Championships and the Summer Paralympics.
Track and field, and road events have featured in the Paralympic athletics programme since its inception in 1960.
In the mountains above the town there are lakes known as Lagos de Covadonga, and the road leading to the lakes is often featured in the Vuelta a España bicycle race.
Until the 1988 – 89 NBA season the road uniform had " San Antonio " on the front while the home uniform featured the team nickname adopted from the Spurs logo ; from 1973 – 82 the road uniform lettering is black with silver trim.
It originally featured a central water pump which was moved out of the road in the 1970s as a result of increased traffic.
Nuiqsut is accessible during the winter via an ice road and was featured in season four episode of the History channel series Ice Road Truckers, when a convoy of truckers delivered supplies to the village.
It mostly featured shots of Auf der Maur's life on the road, with a recurring TV theme and shots of hotel TV screens, hence the name Channels.
All new towns featured a car-oriented layout, many of them with roundabouts and one in particular-Milton Keynes-with a grid-based distributor road system.
One technique they used was to build premises into " promos " for shows that would never run ( such as " Melvin and Howards ", a parody of the movie Melvin and Howard which featured Melvin Dummar, Howard Hughes, Howard Cosell, Curly Howard, and Senator Howard Baker on a road trip singing old tunes ).
It featured pictures of road scenes and a few notable places like Gretna Green and Robin Hood's Well.
The DVD also featured extra footage of the band as well as interviews and a road movie.
All the new towns featured a car-oriented layout with many roundabouts and a grid-based road system unusual in the old world.
In March 2006, The Black Eyed Peas hit the road again as the featured headliner for the 6th Annual Honda Civic Tour with supporting bands Flipsyde and The Pussycat Dolls.
Although the bridge was constructed several years ago ( pre 2000 ) it is not featured ( 2006 ) on any commercially available road maps.
There are fifteen tracks featured on the trucker CD in which the first three tracks, in addition to track seven, specifically deal with situations while on the road: " Concrete Sailor ," " Convoy ," " Right Reverend Road Hog McGraw ," and " Hang Up and Drive.
The general entrance to the building is a few yards down the road in the South Block and is often featured as a backdrop in television news reports.
For many years the lower end of Marlowes featured a distinctive office building built as a bridge-like structure straddling the main road.
The road is featured in several famous novels, notably A Hero of Our Time and Twelve Chairs.
The Chaparrals ' road uniform was featured in NBA Live 2004 as a hidden jersey.
Fictional trompe-l ' œil is featured in many Looney Tunes, such as the Road Runner cartoons, where, for example, Wile E. Coyote paints a tunnel on a rock wall, and the road runner then races through the fake tunnel.
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