单词 | bridle road |
例句 | For three hours we ascended the mountain by scarcely marked bridle roads, astonished at the confidence with which our horses walked up those steep slopes where there seemed hardly any hold for their feet. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z We cross the railway near a station, which, as a cottager told me is “Mr. Pease’s station; built for hisself, and not for everybody;” and take a bridle road leading to the hill. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z A bridle road invites, but the thoroughfare being intercepted by brushwood and overhanging branches, it is not easy to effect a passage. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba In Leicestershire there are so many bridle roads that a lady may obtain any amount of this practice when hacking. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. Appointments were made at the August session of 1775 "to view, and if they saw cause, to lay out a bridle road from the mouth of Bald Eagle Creek to the town of Sunbury." The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography The forests were, however, easily traversed, as paths were made through them by the buffalo and elk, who following each other’s footsteps, had opened up bridle roads to all points of the compass. Adventures in the Far West Not far from where they landed a bridle road passed by, leading from the south. The Golden Grasshopper A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham There are nine miles of carriage drives, four miles of bridle roads, and twenty-five miles of walks within its limits. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City The roads marked as excellent, and fit for the passage of artillery and trains, were found to be mere bridle roads. In the Irish Brigade A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain Those who were not on duty, to use a military phrase, returned across the moors by the way they came, and consequently reached the bridle road we have spoken of, together. The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two "Why, sir, we met a suspicious character on the old bridle road beyond Reilly's, and he refused to take him prisoner." Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One A narrow bridle road led through the ravine to Sabden, and along it, after quitting the park, the cavalcade proceeded, headed by Nicholas. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest Unluckily, there were roads all about Rockville; foot roads, and high roads and bridle roads. International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 There were certain bridle roads along the fields over which he exercised exclusive control. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 "I should learn everything then," she said to herself, still walking quickly along the bridle road through the wood. Middlemarch There are nine miles of carriage roads in it, four miles of bridle roads, and twenty-five miles of walks. The Secrets of the Great City For it is observable, that, so early as Queen Elizabeth's days, England, the most equestrian of nations, already presented to its inhabitants a general system of decent bridle roads. Autobiographical Sketches For half an hour my wife capers and curvets sideways along the bridle road. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English Brynhild walked with me through the long glades in the fresh thin air to the bridle road where my men and ponies waited, eager to be off. The ninth vibration and other stories There is nothing for it but to take the bridle road up the hill, and try what we can discover on the other side. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English |
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