The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 gunfire, which was so near that it seemed just a piece up the road now, stopped for long enough to count to twenty ; ;

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

In my recollection, there was a long interval between the death of the officer and the appearance of the first of the retreating redcoats, and in that interval the dust cloud over the road seems to hover indefinitely.

One moment, the road was filled with disciplined troops, marching four by four with a purpose as implacable as death ; ;

Their only hope of survival was to hold to the road and keep marching.

A dozen cows mooed sadly and regarded us as if we were insane, as perhaps we were at that moment, with the crazy excitement of our first encounter, the yelling and shooting still continuing up at the road, and the thirst of some of the men, which was so great that they waded into the muddy water and scooped up handfuls of it.

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.

While this was being discussed, we saw the militia to the west of us fanning out and breaking into little clusters of two and three men as they approached the road.

There was a clump of trees that appeared to provide cover right up to the road, and the shouting and gunfire never slackened.

The road leading south along the river was shaded with old trees, and in the moonlight the silvery landscape was like a setting for trolls and wood gods rather than the Hudson River Valley of his boyhood memories.

But he did not notice, and was already backing the car down to the road, saying `` Toot-toot ''!!

It was a Cadillac, black grayed with the dust of the road, its windows closed tight so you knew that the people who climbed out of it would be cool and unwrinkled.

one fork of the road was as good as another.

At the moment, Barco's back was to the road so he didn't see the detectives close in on his convertible which, in their quest for the stolen lap rug, they proceeded to search.

The old entrance to the park was closed in 1997 when a new entrance was created at the intersection of Highway 20 and Cornet Bay road, improving access into and out of the park.

The word derives from the old Norse " gata ", meaning road or path, and originally referred to the gap in the wall or fence, rather than the barrier which closed it.

In 1976, he appeared in a revival of Hellzapoppin ' with Lynn Redgrave, but it closed on the road before reaching Broadway.

In other countries, notably the United Kingdom, completions mostly take place on tarmac courses, occasionally closed public roads, with the machines used for competition being similar to those used for road disciplines.

Sounds surface in road safety advertisements: " clunk click, every trip " ( click the seatbelt on after clunking the car door closed ; UK campaign ) or " click, clack, front and back " ( click, clack of connecting the seatbelts ; AU campaign ) or " click it or ticket " ( click of the connecting seatbelt ; US DOT campaign ).

Inline skating can also be held on closed road courses between 400 and 1, 000 metres, as well as open-road competitions where starting and finishing lines do not coincide.

, the shopping precinct is closed to all road traffic other than buses.

Additionally, any time any road on which parking meters can be found is closed by the city for anything from maintenance work to public festivals, the city has to compensate the new owners for loss of revenue.

Elite road walks are conducted on closed loop courses ( usually loops of 2, 000 or 2, 500 meters ).

Brighton has a horse-racing course, Brighton Racecourse, with the unusual feature that when the full length of the course is to be used, some of the grass turf of the track has to be laid over the tar at the top of Wilson Avenue, a public road, which therefore has to be closed for the races.

The early 1900s saw the adoption of closed container boxes designed for movement between road and rail.

They are based on straightforward speed over stretches of road closed to other traffic.

The public road is closed during these by the organisers or the police.

The Army closed the road from August 15 until September 24, 1864.

Again on Saturday 26 July 2008 skiers and staff were trapped on the mountain overnight when a fast approaching storm caused the skifield to be closed at 10: 30am and made the road too dangerous for cars without chains or 4WD to leave the area.

Because of the terrain surrounding the road, it was also closed due to bush-fires in 1962 and 1964 ; particularly in areas with nearby camp-sites.

In winter, the main roads in Andorra are usually quickly cleared of snow and remain accessible, but the main road out of Andorra on the French side ( RN-20 / 22 ) is less frequently cleared and is sometimes closed by avalanches.

However, this highway is closed through the mountains during the winter months as heavy snow blocks the road.

The road was closed in 1938 when it was taken over by the state of New York in lieu of back taxes.

Three systems of toll roads exist: open ( with mainline barrier toll plazas ); closed ( with entry / exit tolls ) and open road ( no toll booths, only electronic toll collection gantries at entrances and exits, or at strategic locations on the mainline of the road ).

In a variant of the closed toll system, mainline barriers are present at the two endpoints of the toll road, and each interchange has a ramp toll that is paid upon exit or entry.

In November 2009, a large rockslide closed U. S. Highway 64 through the Ocoee River Gorge, the county's main road connecting populated areas near Ducktown with the county seat in Benton.

A small victory for local protesters was that the report reaffirmed that a local closed road, Sanders Lane, would not be reopened for traffic, if only because the road was outside the AAP boundary ( this had already conceded by the council ) and would need separate consideration.