roadmaker

At Sermaize, the roadmaker Brocard was placed among a number of hostages.

The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 Various

Fremont, the pathfinder and roadmaker of the West, surveyed the great

History of California Helen Elliott Bandini

Sutherland and of Caithness respectively, Mr. Curle has classified their visible remains, and may, let us hope, with the aid of legislation, save those relics from the roadmaker or dykebuilder.

Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray

Knut Hamsun was in his day a shoemaker's apprentice, a coal heaver, a roadmaker, a farm hand and a street car conductor.

Canadian Letters and the New Canadian 1923

For below the hill lies Runemede, and it needs the filmy gauze of mist to spread the meadows and trees of the Thames banks into a green carpet, untouched with the mark of the builder and the roadmaker.

Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

The rock on which the effect of a mountain scene especially depends is always precisely that which the roadmaker blasts or the landlord quarries; and the spot of green which Nature left with a special purpose by her dark forest sides, and finished with her most delicate grasses, is always that which the farmer ploughs or builds upon.

The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859

a wide green lane, afterwards a narrow path sometimes half-choked by trees, sometimes, in wet weather, impassable with mud, but always driving straight as the Roman roadmaker drove his pick towards the cap of Mickleham Downs.

Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

"At Sermaize, the roadmaker, Brocard, was placed among a number of hostages.

History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War Richard Joseph Beamish 1895