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The carriage-road was such as no carriage, no, not even a cart, could possibly have passed along, without Hercules to assist in lifting it out of the deep clay ruts.
Mary Barton 2010
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To do so he turned aside along the carriage-road leading to Cromnus, and moved onward in column two abreast,728 which was his natural order.
Hellenica 2007
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There was no carriage-road in the island, and nobody offered (in consequence, as I suppose, of the imperfectly-civilised state of the country) to bring me a sedan-chair, which is naturally what I should have liked best.
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It is a capital carriage-road, but without carriages.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004
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A narrow carriage-road traverses this wild region of the park, to which a distant gate gives entrance.
Uncle Silas 2003
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They walked down the carriage-road, through the desolate, untended grounds, to the gate, before either of them spoke a word.
Can You Forgive Her? 1993
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We now start by the regular carriage-road for the rocky coast (commonly called the Back of the island), and first reach a hamlet on the rise of the next hill, named OAK-FIELD, and then ...
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-- A carriage-road hence by the back of St. Clare.
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The utmost privacy might be enjoyed, for there is the accommodation of a good landing-place, and a carriage-road thence to the house.
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Amidst a profusion of new houses, more or less tasty in their style -- a villa, called_ EAST DENE, _and the neighbouring old_ CHURCH_, are all that will here particularly call the stranger from the carriage-road.
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