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.

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

The Strata Diocletiana, which ran from the Euphrates to Palmyra and northeast Arabia, is the classic Diocletianic frontier system, consisting of an outer road followed by tightly spaced forts followed by further fortifications in the rear.

On the northern side a wide road, the Dromos, ran through the double-arched Dipylon Gate ( also known as the Thriasian Gate ) and on to the Platonic Academy a few miles away.

The long-distance road from Cologne to Frankfurt am Main subsequently ran through Limburg.

Starting in 1754 a daily stagecoach ran between Berlin and Potsdam, although the road was in poor shape.

In 1956 – 57, China constructed a road through Aksai Chin, connecting Xinjiang and Tibet, which ran south of the Johnson Line in many places.

Evidence of this comes from the border between Hampshire and Berkshire, which generally follows the line of the Roman road that ran east and west through Silchester, but is deflected in the north in a rough semicircle, in such a way as to include the whole district around the town.

The sport of road running finds its roots in the activities of footmen: male servants who ran alongside the carriages of aristocrats around the 18th century, and who also ran errands over distances for their masters.

According from the inscriptions on ancient milestones, the principal road through the island ran directly from Caralis ( Cagliari ) to Turris, a sufficient proof that the latter was a place much frequented.

By far the best known project was the road, which ran across the Pontine Marshes to the coast northwest of Naples, where it turned north to Capua.

In 1800, the first commercial toll road, the Westchester Turnpike, which ran through Pelham and New Rochelle, was chartered.

Edward's host followed the line of the old Roman road, which ran through an ancient forest known as the Tor Wood, over the Bannockburn and into the New Park, a hunting preserve enclosed at the time of Alexander III.

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.

* 1801 – Richard Trevithick ran a full-sized steam ' road locomotive ' on the road in Camborne, England

Speed-tested to 365 km / h or 227 mph ( according to some stories, the testing team ran out of road during the test ), it holds the Guinness World Records for most powerful production motorcycle and most expensive production motorcycle, with a price tag of US $ 185, 000.

The axis of the advance was centred on the Roman road that ran from Albert in the west to Bapaume to the northeast.

The attack was aimed at capturing the German second defensive position which ran along the crest of the ridge from Pozières, on the Albert – Bapaume road, south-east towards the villages of Guillemont and Ginchy.

The first step required the capture of the German Transloy Line, effectively the German fourth defensive position that ran from the village of Le Transloy in the east to Le Sars on the Albert-Bapaume road.

During the 1950s, the People's Republic of China built a 1, 200 km ( 750 mi ) road connecting Xinjiang and western Tibet, of which 179 km ( 112 mi ) ran south of the Johnson Line through the Aksai Chin region claimed by India.

In 2006 the BBC ran a series of programmes called The Lost World of Friese-Greene, presented by Dan Cruickshank about Claude Friese-Greene's road trip from Land's End to John o ' Groats, The Open Road, which he filmed from 1924 to 1926 using the Biocolour process.

Duane and Sonny go on a road trip to Mexico — which happens entirely off-screen — and return to discover that Sam the Lion ( Johnson ), their mentor and father-figure in town, has died of a stroke, leaving a will that bequeaths the town's movie theater to the woman who ran the concession stand, the café to its waitress, Genevieve ( Brennan ), and the pool hall to Sonny.

Aquileia was connected by road with Bologna probably in 173 BC ; and subsequently with Genoa in 148 BC by the Via Postumia, which ran through Cremona, Bedriacum and Altinum, joining the first-mentioned road at Concordia, while the construction of the Via Popilia from Rimini to Ad Portum near Altinum in 132 BC improved the communications still further.

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.

The road past the butcher shop took us along the side of a stream.

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.

Going through the Imperial Gate in the wall, I entered the grounds of Topkapi Palace, home of the Sultans and nerve center of the vast Ottoman Empire, and walked along a road toward another gate in the distance, past the Church of St. Irene, completed by Constantine in 330 A.D. on my left, and then, just outside the second gate, I saw a spring with a tap in the wall on my right -- the Executioner's Spring, where he washed his hands and his sword after beheading his victims.

He drove, and the road wobbled, familiar scenes crept past on either side.

The shortest ( and possibly oldest ) road avoids alpine areas and led from the Baltic coastline ( nowadays Estonia ), passed the Moravian Gate, followed the river Morava, crossed the Danube near Carnuntum in the Noricum Province, headed southwest past Poetovio, Celeia, Emona, Nauportus, and reached Aquileia at the Adriatic coast.

Once past the South Gate, the Cologne-Mainz road continued along what are now streets named Belderberg, Adenauerallee et al.

In the past aviation compared with road and railroad transport used to be a minor mode of freight movement, and only 860, 000 passengers used Bulgarian airlines in 2001.

In the past few decades, much of the freight traffic shifted from rail to road, which led the Federal Government to introduce a motor toll for trucks in 2005.

Beyond the road / rail land entrances at the northern edge of the city, transportation within the city remains ( as it was in centuries past ) entirely on water or on foot.

From San Luis, the National Geographic road trip suggests traveling west on Colorado State Highway 142 through Manassa, Colorado, then south on United States Highway 285 past Conejos, Colorado then west on Colorado State Highway 17 over Cumbres Pass to Chama, New Mexico paralleling the route of the narrow gauge Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad.

In the first race, the course took a diversion around Southwark Park before re-joining Jamaica Road on the way to Tower Bridge and was routed through St Katherine Docks past the Tower Hotel, en-route to the Tower of London and the famous cobblestoned stretch of road that in later years was carpeted, to help runners prevent injury on the uneven surface.

One police officer then drove down the road past Seascape and past the disabled car of Mrs. White.

A road originating near The Surf Ballroom and extending north past the west of the crash site is now known as Buddy Holly Place.

As the truck then takes off past Wyatt down the road, Wyatt turns around and races back to put his jacket over his fatally injured friend, who is already covered in blood, before riding off for help.

After the intersection with Route 439, the route continues past urban residences and business, narrowing into a two-lane undivided road at the intersection with County Route 618 ( Magie Avenue ).

Immediately past this interchange, the road intersects County Route 30 before coming to a cloverleaf interchange with Interstate 195 and Route 138.

Following the Hudson River closely as a busy surface road through the many suburban river villages and past National Historic Landmarks such as Sunnyside and Kykuit, 9 becomes the Croton Expressway between Croton-on-Hudson and Peekskill.

The main roads are the A112, Prince Regent Lane / Plaistow Road / High Street / Broadway, which is a former Roman road, and the A124 ( Barking Road ), which passes south west / north east through Plaistow and past the West Ham United F. C.

A short distance past this intersection, the road becomes a four-lane undivided road that crosses New Jersey Transit ’ s Pascack Valley Line before coming to an interchange with Route 17.

The route crosses County Route 513 ( Dover-Chester Road ), skirting several residential neighborhoods and passing by the County College of Morris past that intersection, with businesses along the road becoming more frequent again.

The road remains two lanes past the turn for the Rockaway Townsquare Mall, in the township of Rockaway.

By road, Sudbury is served by the A131 which runs from near Little Waltham, north of Chelmsford in Essex, and the A134 which runs from Colchester in Essex, through Bury St Edmunds, past Thetford in Norfolk to its west, before merging with the A10 south of King's Lynn.