| 单词 | roads |
| 例句 | But some figures stood alone, isolated by blank space like tents pitched on winter slopes or lampposts on white roads. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Thank god for the dark and empty country roads. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I would run down the back roads where the black folks lived, across the tracks to where the white folks were. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He said the Austrians had a great amount of artillery in the woods along Ternova ridge beyond and above us, and shelled the roads badly at night. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z If only he had not tried to cross the occupied roads, he would not be so gaunt and withdrawn now; his grief would not be burdened by failure. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I am the traveler that came upon those two roads. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The school bell rings loud and I remember I’m a long way from Alabama, dirt roads, and slow walking. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z As our truck moves slowly in the crowd of people, the wide, paved boulevard gives way to windy, dusty roads that are no more than wagon trails. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As often observed, however, the 45,000 people killed annually on American roads are approximately equal in number to all American dead in the Vietnam War. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They taught metrics and agriculture: how to count potatoes, how to pave roads, chop wood, till the soil. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The roads offered the wildest drives that I had ever known: nightmare traffic, brakes squealing, skidding cars, and horns blowing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Ice on the roads and the fields, and the beach where his grandmother lives. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The flatboat dragged along the little deep-rutted roads that wound through the bush. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Reluctantly, Matthias picked up the pen and ink Wylan had laid out and began to scratch in the names of the buildings and surrounding roads. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She and Justin hid under a thick blanket in the back and they charged off, at dangerous velocity given the darkness and the uniformly poor quality of Tennessee roads. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I remembered back almost three years ago when Hatun left to work for the Sapa Inca, guarding and repairing the many roads that wove their way to the four corners of the empire. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Russian soldiers patrolled the main roads and the train station, and the Jews of German-held West Przemyśl were expelled across the river. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The roads out of the city were filled with people walking with their hastily packed belongings. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z There were no roads, only paths through the grass worn away by barefooted boys and women. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought of quiet Hatun, my older brother, slaving away on the distant roads. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Driving back into remote corners of the woods where there were barely roads, we would come upon twenty-five beehives up on slats like a little lost city tucked back in there. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We tore through the night along dark country roads. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Cars crawled along the roads like ants in a line. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z While Honeyman was selling meat to the British and Hessians, he was gathering information—the location of camps, the number of troops, the roads without sentries. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes he followed the roads from one town to another, but if he could, he would follow railroad tracks. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z There were barricades on the main roads leading into the ruins. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z We steered clear of tollbooths by taking two-lane back roads, where we usually had a long line of drivers behind us, honking in exasperation. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The University of California, Santa Cruz, was merely a forty-five-minute drive on the curvy roads of Highway 17. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z And then she heard a low thunder-like rumble, which was hard to locate until she saw a cloud of dust moving along one of the roads—toward the stand of trees, and toward her. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The small red gravel roads are swarmed body to body with people in their black shirts and pants. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The size of the army and the fewness of the roads did that. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Watching the neighborhood go by—the sagging row homes, potholed roads, trash blowing around, tree bark tagged with graffiti—I wonder if Boy21 will really visit me tonight. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He made his way back to his farm along deserted roads. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “A hundred and fifty miles or so; we’ve come farther over worse ground. There are roads all the way; people will take us in; we may get a lift on a power-sledge.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “My son,” he said, “I'm the god of travelers, the god of roads. If I know anything, I know that you must walk your own path, even though it tears my heart.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Out here, they're bigger than me, growling on the roads like monsters with huge eyes. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “All three roads arrive at the same place at the same time,” interrupted Tock, who had patiently been doing the first problem. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z I can’t help noticing that, the closer we get to the school, the busier the roads seem to be. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Crews worked to widen all roads leading in from California. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They said that evil still crept out of the ruins of the Witch Kingdom—and that old women with iron teeth still wandered the lonely roads in the mountain passes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The enormous interstate trucks make use of the roads and by their very weight and speed increase the maintenance costs. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Brook trout also appeared among the dead fish, and along the roads and in the woods birds were dying. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Kinshasa has ten million people but only two paved roads and no traffic lights, so the routes are too crowded to get anywhere fast. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z And they were as surprised to find roads of smooth rock lacing through the prairie as Mary Malone had been sometime before. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The boy took his truck from the pack and shaped roads in the ash with a stick. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The buildings were old and covered with vines and the roads gracefully winding, lined with hedges and wild roses that dazzled the eyes in the summer sun. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Until then, they wandered around the maze of roads in the development, watching the children at evening play. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z In our explorations on mud roads around Mount Elgon, we saw signs of the recent trouble: burned, empty huts that had once belonged to Bukusu farmers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There are thousands of cars speeding along the roads and the sun turns everything to gold. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It is well known that our roads are dangerous. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet Burnham knew that such expenditures, as well as continued spending on police, garbage removal, and maintenance of roads and lawns, was vital. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They had to climb up a set of steps, through the roads of this small town. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The Opel bounces down roads that are hardly more than cattle trails. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Joe knows his way on all those roads, she thought, but they looked different all covered with snow. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z For a lot of folks all over the country, those roads pass through places like this. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The bus jolts over the broken, unfunded roads. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Long ago, the monster said, before this was a town with roads and trains and cars, it was a green place. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z “I know someone who’s on an isolated island in the middle of the Congo River. About as far from roads and cities as you can get.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z After twenty minutes, Blake returned to Rotterdam, using the back roads he had learned as a teenager in the Dutch resistance. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The bay, roads, buildings, houses, and bushes that were really trees. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Native peoples had created town sites, farms, monumental earthworks, and networks of roads, and they had devised a wide variety of governments, some as complex as any in the modern world. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The road was empty, like so many roads we had driven on in my life. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Along the roads, laurel, viburnum and alder, great ferns and wildflowers delighted the traveler’s eye through much of the year. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The unpaved roads, the scrubby bushes and trees, the huts roofed with sticks bound together—everything was just as Salva remembered it, as if he had left only yesterday. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He explains that he’s been waiting for the full moon to rise so that he might navigate the darkened roads by night. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Abuja had far-flung horizons, wide roads, order; to come from Lagos was to be stunned here by sequence and space. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Then he rode in a jeep on dusty dirt roads into the bush. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually I had to come out of the tree-hidden roads and do my best to bypass the cities. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z As new roads are cut into virgin rain forests, more and more people enter areas where they can become infected. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The roads were still crowded, a new surge of cars leaving, but Zeitoun didn’t consider it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “No. I think the roads made them, in a way,” Mary said. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z As the car swerved through narrow roads, the conversation picked up again and they talked about other trips, game, kills, misses. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I can never get used to the thousands of antique shops along the roads, all bulging with authentic and attested trash from an earlier time. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z "I've always believed there are many different roads you can take to get somewhere. And you look like a girl who can build a new road for herself if she needs it." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z These were technologies that had been part of a profound effort to make cars and roads safer— along with airbags and billions spent to widen and improve roads. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z We stared out atSnapfinger Cemetery, and the blacktopped Rural Route 2 that stretched out to bigger roads across all of Mississippi and beyond. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z If she were in Zmeyreka, she would have helped Mama make potions, or ridden Alsvindr back and forth on the roads. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “It was written by a man named Montaigne, who was a soldier. But he grew tired of being a soldier and spent his time studying and writing. He also liked to walk on country roads.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Normally it was thronged with boats — in a country with few paved roads, the Congo was the closest thing to an interstate. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The light poles and paved roads ascended the hills. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z But as the years passed, his walks became longer and longer as the factories and roads sprawled out of town like one of the rashes he was so effective in treating. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Everywhere Burnham looked he saw rail tracks and temporary roads, empty boxcars and packing crates. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z By the early years of World War II, Turner Station had a few paved roads, a doctor, a general store, and an ice man. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z No, wait, you have to put in the roads first, because the bridges go over the water, remember? It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z It snowed earlier and more heavily than it had in years, and the roads were often impassable. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The Bridge was paved in sidewalks and traffic roads like the streets of Broadway and the tracks were the same tracks. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z None of the roads had been plowed yet, but enough buses had come down Lee Avenue that it was packed hard and slick. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z In all bold, Terryl wrote: Please be aware that rain is falling and the roads are slick and wet. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Men with bald heads, twenty feet tall, are said to appear on the roads outside of Ntchisi, a few at first, then dozens all around. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Any food that reaches us in Kinshasa has to come over impossible roads in dilapidated trucks from the interior, so it costs too much even if you can find it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tradition mostly. But some people say they marked old roads—” My father’s voice changed and became Ben’s voice, “—safe roads. Sometimes roads to safe places, sometimes safe roads leading into danger.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Once they got away from the car exhaust on the main roads, the air smelled of baking bread and freshly cut flowers. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The house itself was identical to hundreds of others built on postage-stamp-size plots on dirt roads. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z All round, for as far as I could see, hanging in the air, were the twisting and turning roads of a great suspended city. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z And she, Anna, and their children and his father would be cast out to walk the hot, dusty roads. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Melting snow sank into the dirt roads, turning them to sticky black mud. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I kept to the main roads, knowing they wouldn’t dare attack me in broad daylight when people were around. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The men don’t travel down one single road but spread out along a series of parallel roads connecting the hamlets and burgs of rural Virginia. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z They came over to Africa for the fight and then crossed the river and toured around in French Congo, since the roads and everything are so much nicer in general over here. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z All that day they kept their harness shaking, side by side, until at sundown when the roads grew dim they made a halt at Pherai. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z There are no restaurants and lodges, no gift shops and hamburger stands, not even any paved roads or public phones. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z People flocked to the roads, banging with sticks and fetishes on the hoods of the army convoy that took him away. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They stayed off the roads and followed the city wall south and then east. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The smoke was so thick that it billowed through the roads in drifts as wide as glaciers, dimming the sunlight until it became impossible to tell whether it was morning or midday. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z That tenderness in her voice when she called him back from his memories, from Dunkirk, or from the roads that led to it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Some time back the other members of the squad that walked so smartly from the school had turned into the various little canyons and taken the wagon roads to their own home ranches. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the troupe was not on any particular schedule, we had decided to wait for a day or two to give the roads time to dry. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It was more of a town, with wide roads and clean air. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z For all the bumps in all the roads, Jesse had an almost infectious self-confidence. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z That night, over icy roads and through howling winds, Paul Revere rode the sixty miles. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In a few minutes the roads and houses disappeared, and the only traces of human settlement were the cattle scattered over the savanna like sprinkles on ice cream. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I take the long way through Batalla, through the sectors side roads and abandoned buildings, not stopping until I’m a good distance outside of military grounds. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Here there was still mud underfoot, cool and soothing after the hot baked clay of the roads. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z When and where to build roads; how to eliminate waste in food distribution and thus end hunger; how to protect the environment from the ever-growing human population. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Dragon roads, men called the great stone roadways of the Freehold, but the one that ran eastward from Volantis to Meereen had earned a more sinister name: the demon road. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Well... the roads are rather bad ” This sparked a chorus of familiar complaints, and Chronicler relaxed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Between the buildings were broad roads lined with trees, wandering crookback streets, and alleys so narrow that two men could not walk abreast. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z On the third day the forest pressed close around them, and the rutted roads dwindled down to game trails that soon proved to be too narrow for their larger wagons. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z So, while the Nazis did increase the number of new jobs by building and repairing roads, railways, and houses as well as building up their military, they also took employment away from other Germans. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z "With rings on your fingers and gold in your pockets, you can take to the roads like gentlemen. You'll be traveling about in fine coaches. But first you've got to lay hands on the treasure." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Our roads turned to mud, and the autos just couldn’t make it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Once out of Houston, the roads weren’t paved and didn’t connect so well. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It didn’t seem to lead anywhere, as some roads do. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “There are only three real roads in Bone Gap,” said Finn. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I looked at my hand, the dirt creating little roads in the creases of my palms, like a map. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He had been walking these roads, he thought, all his life. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I pedal furiously through my neighborhood, taking the potholed roads I usually avoid because I know today they'll be faster. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I remember we came up to a crossroad, sand everywhere, the outline of two intersecting roads. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The roads out of town were steep and rutted. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Nor did he know much about roads that could lead them safely to China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Those trees, I had heard, concealed every unsavory brigand and every ravenous beast of prey in the shire—until nightfall, when they ventured out upon roads such as this, in search of victims. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve seen you skulking on the county roads in the dead of night, Miss McKeene. Do you know they call you the Angel of the Crossroads, the people you save?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Charley Bloom had once put it this way in a Voice of the People article: You walk along the narrow roads of Milagro in the spring and early summer sunshine. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I suddenly worried that my father was going to wreck his car on the icy roads. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The world they were passing outside already looked unfamiliar—unfamiliar houses, unfamiliar roads, unfamiliar fields, even the trees and the sky looked unfamiliar—but Meggie was used to that. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Wagons had gouged chasms across paths, roads, and would-be lawns. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In no time the roads dried hard as cement, trout were left baking in dry pasturelands. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Would they have to walk the unfamiliar roads and knock on strangers’ houses to beg for food? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Mr. Clutter seldom encountered trespassers on his property; a mile and a half from the highway, and arrived at by obscure roads, it was not a place that strangers came upon by chance. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z As for the two roads that passed through Stromford, all I knew was that they led to the rest of England, of which I had no knowledge. our priest called it. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Their roads took them around the town rather than through its center. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Shadow took the hearse up to ten miles per hour, which seemed enough on the slippery roads. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Broken glass and charred palm trees along the sides of the roads. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Along the way, he built schools and almshouses, new roads and bridges, and even founded whole new towns, establishing himself as one of the most enlightened of the English landlords in Ireland at the time. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z I don’t know the addresses I hold, or at least not exactly I know the roads but not the actual houses. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The cobblestones are a nice change from the hard-packed dirt roads of the country. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Shortly after lunch, we arrive at a junction where four roads meet. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z At a place where three roads met, we came upon a father huddled with wife and three daughters; the father placed his body between us and the girls. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I watched the small roads turn into bigger roads, and I thought, Goodbye, smaller roads. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Outside of White Sulphur Springs, the land is all hilly green, and she passes farms and tractors trundling up dirt roads. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Toward the sea there are salt marshes and very few roads. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The mud in the roads actually seemed to flow with currents, as in the rivers and streams, but when it hardened it would be worse than cement. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z For the rest of the day we made our way without the benefit of roads. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z We’d run as far and as fast as we could, down strange roads, through the woods, whatever. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We snaked through winding roads where the trees leaned close, rustling rush, rush, rush, rush, rush. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z On the roads, that reason was usually booze. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z As we drove deeper south, down dark highways and even darker back roads, I felt like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The better roads were cleared of cover for a bow-shot on either side of them, lest the traveller should be slam by hidden thieves. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z To the east of Warings there was only the village of Derne, and then flat farmland, until the first of the main roads. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z There were wild animals there, and I wondered if they even suspected that outside these walls of mountains there were cities and roads and people. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z For a while chokecherries were thick on the trees along the lumber roads that had been a mist of white blooms earlier. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes he drives to the university, parking behind his father’s department, running along the campus roads, through the confined, picturesque universe that had been his father’s world for most of the past twenty-five years. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Caught the important words: tornado and wet roads and something they called a spinout. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z But inside were vast cavern-ous spaces where slabs of stones had been cut, hauled to the surface, and transported down slippery narrow roads to make distant buildings. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Traveling at high speeds, often in the dead of night, to evade authorities, drivers became adept at navigating winding roads and making hairpin turns. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Sometimes the snow got so deep here, Mr. Chris said, that the fences disappeared entirely, and there weren’t any roads at all. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z His voice ringing down Hall Street, circling round the roads of Nicholtown and maybe out into the big, wide world . Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z The news was terrible: Cars were backed up for hundreds of miles on roads leading out of the city. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z Olmsted’s road contractor deployed a force of eight hundred men and one hundred teams of horses to begin regrading the roads and laying new gravel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Our footpath crossed over four single-track paved roads but except for a cow grazing by one of the roads we hadn’t seen another creature bigger than a hedgehog. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “But who told Odenigbo that he can make it past occupied roads? Who told him?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Follow the roads. Ask for help as you go. God will “Is there no other way?” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Both roads were heading north; however, one was in an easterly direction while the other one veered sharply to the west. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The great hooves of his horse beat a tattoo on the bad roads and forest trails of central Virginia. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z I started the truck and followed his directions up and down the dirt farm roads until we came to our fishing spot. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z From there, Nye steered his car northward along raw country roads. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z In particular he spoke of the backbreaking work he had to do on various white farms, and on chain gangs digging trenches and roads in the white people’s world. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z But I see how it could look like a brain, like if all roads were twisted neurons, pulling your emotions from one place to another, bringing the city to life. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The time I’d spent on the roof of the post office had given me a pretty good sense of the city’s layout, so I kept along the roads I suspected would be easiest. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z All the roads was paved and they was full of autos. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I must have seen fifty cars along the roads between here and town,” said Ishmael. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “It depends how you go. By road, yes, it’s probably closer. But all the roads in Albion are drowned now. By water, everything is changed. By air, I think we’re exactly halfway.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Dad finally navigated his way to Aunt Maureen’s an hour later, after driving on about seven hundred narrow dirt roads and passing about two hundred cows. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I just remember he let me pick and that the roads led in completely opposite directions. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Lily is all trees and dirt sliced into circles by curved roads. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Listeners were convinced when they heard familiar names of roads and towns, as well as comments by experts and officials. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z The roads would be covered with debris, impassable for days. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Thousands of miles of country roads, rough timber lanes, overgrown tracks leading to abandoned mines, and unmapped trails snake across its length and breadth. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She recognized every creek and cove and inlet, every neck of land, every hiding place, every curve in the roads, every potential source of danger, every potential source of safety. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They come up from the South, eighty thousand men, up the narrow roads that converge toward the blue mountains. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z This was a needed service in the Colonies, where land was usually a wilderness without roads. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Half a mile away lay the town, white board buildings, dirt roads. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I watched the bigger roads give way to the highway, and I thought, Goodbye, South Grove, Massachusetts. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z There are boys whose mothers stagger through town roads when the juke joint slams its door. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “The roads will open in a day or two. We will leave early so we can stop in Abba and then get to Nsukka before dark.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The roads out that way had been muddy all summer, and he didn’t want to get stuck that day. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z This is in a small town in Jiangsu province, outside Shanghai, a place of dusty shops and rutted roads, of timber and clay — a place where every noise has a known source. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “Rabbi,” I exclaim, “the roads are all closed! I can’t get there!” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Where three roads meet, there she is standing. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let us pray and cover the roads with the blood of Jesus,” she had said, and he replied that the roads would be safer, less slippery, if not covered with blood. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He used to work on the docks, back before he realized he could make more money taking “odd jobs,” as he calls them, on the roads between Baltimore and the outer settlements. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z She didn’t want to mess up the quest, but she remembered how horrible her life had been when she and her mother had moved to Alaska—no roads. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “I been lookin’ over all the roads,” I tell him in answer. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Because the tarred roads spring potholes like surprise presents and the air smells of hills and history and the sunlight scatters the sand and turns it into gold dust. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z We had to walk the last fifteen miles on treacherous, washed-out roads, carrying all our things. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I knew to avoid the roads in times of war — any child knew that. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “And Laius was murdered by robbers, where three roads meet on the way to Delphi,” she concluded triumphantly. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He could navigate it effortlessly, as if the oceans were splitting into glossy liquid roads for him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I was walking back to where I’d left my car, along one of those long straight seafront roads. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z As a result, Inka roads eschewed valley bottoms and used long stone stairways to climb up steep hills directly—brutal on horses’ hooves, as the conquistadors often complained. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As North Vietnamese attacks in South Vietnam intensified, Johnson decided to run a continuous bombing campaign over North Vietnam aimed at destroying railroads, bridges, roads, and manufacturing plants. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Liam thought the easiest and fastest way to navigate our small pack to East River was to travel alongside the roads that we would have taken had we still been in Betty. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z There was the teasing and impossible desire to imitate the petty pride of sparrows wallowing and flouncing in the red dust of country roads. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Was it walking along the roads calling for her children? A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The closer they came, the harder it would be to stay off the roads. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Go ahead. I wish I had a road atlas for you. The roads in it wouldn’t exist in those days but it might show you the easiest way through the country.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Cars and trucks trudge through honey-thick roads, trying their best not to slide on the snow. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “In ancient times, two great Roman roads met here. News was exchanged. Markets were held. Friends met, and enemies fought. Entire armies had to choose a direction. Crossroads are always places of decision.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The Colonel ushered us out of the trailer immediately after our brief tour, and we walked through the neighborhood, a series of trailers and mobile homes on dirt roads. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z I told Junior, “I just did what I thought would be the best thing for my family. With the city of Dallas, I worked on a road crew. We filled potholes and fixed roads.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe she was talking all this time, but my mind was on the wide, endless roads. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The dust had been bad, but in Spain the roads were better than in France. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “The roads will be too dangerous for you,” she continues. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Reggie concluded by saying he thought the accident was caused by the wet roads. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z We came over the mountains and out of Spain and down the white roads and through the overfoliaged, wet, green, Basque country, and finally into Bayonne. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z People had been drinking out in the hills on wood-hauling roads and sheep-camp roads since they first bootlegged liquor to Indians. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The roads were icy and piled on either side with old drifts as high as the car. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Our roads were rough and every time we hit a pothole it would bounce you around in your seat. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She can’t go forward, because forward is more miles of self-imposed punishment—flat back-country roads plus the heat of summer, red T-shirts, and the inconceivable and undeserving support of strangers. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z In most cases there was nothing for the doctor to do at that point but complain about the muddy roads and receive his payment. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The roads stretched out slick and empty in the drizzle. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It has infected law enforcement activities on roads, sidewalks, highways, train stations, airports, and the nation’s border. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Oh, how different the brothers are now, what different roads they travel. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He pointed to the roads that left gaps between the grey buildings. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The roads were safe in daylight, but the Klan were out riding strong after dark set in. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, we entered hill country, climbing higher and deeper into the Appalachian Mountains, stopping from time to time to let the Oldsmobile catch its breath on the steep, twisting roads. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The water on the roads and sidewalks reflected light with a silvery sheen. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z She thought of the death of newborn things, lonely roads, and strangers who appear out of nowhere simply to hold one’s hand, woods in which the sun was always setting. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z As he did, the three roads vanished and a new one suddenly appeared, heading in the direction that the sign now pointed. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z After driving on mountain roads for two hours, the farmer dropped Shin off at a friend’s cattle ranch. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z We crossed over the Long Island Expressway to the north side of town, and meandered down side roads until we stopped beside the Quaker meetinghouse. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Still, most of the roads in town were unpaved, and in the dry season, the dust kicked up by cattle being herded through town or by farm carts loaded with vegetables swirled through the air. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Daniel Ellsberg spent much of the fall of 1965 in the passenger seat of an International Harvester Scout, bouncing down rural roads outside of Saigon. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The narrow country roads were getting jammed, and they didn’t want to get stuck in traffic. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He could see those roads spinning away from him in different directions. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Over the years the roads had been worked out so the gathering was as easy as possible. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z We look out at our view of clouds framing the sky and houses packed on roads that slope into each other. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Purple light sprayed upward like shattered glass, and the tide poured through, shredding trees, destroying roads, wiping the Little Tiber off the map. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z There were no roads I could see, or signposts, or even footpaths. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Or maybe the driver was thinking of taking a left turn on one of the dirt side roads but was having trouble in the low light figuring out which was the correct road. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z As the miles ticked by on those rural roads, the more convinced I became that this man was going to be very disappointed to see me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Some would sleep while the shelling, futile, echoed along the summer roads; some would wind stalks of grass around their fingers; some would mutter to friends. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I feel like the traveler in Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken”: “Two roads diverged in a wood, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z But unlike the roads in Robert Frost’s familiar poem, they are not equally fair. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But what most surprised me in Namibia was a street sign: one of downtown Windhoek’s main roads was called Goering Street! Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The golden-haired man had no pistol Hunter could see, and his thin boots had never walked country roads. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It had come on to snow hard, and I had to spend the night in town, not knowing the roads well enough to want to set off on them in the snow and dark. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The crowds swarmed onto the roads once again, pausing to clean out Caesar’s restaurant of every morsel of food well before the dinner hour. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They went down one of the old rolling roads, the slave running, and the overseer running too. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Workmen trampled his plantings and destroyed his roads. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But it did no good to brood on lost battles and roads not taken. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Brevis expected the billy goat to bolt for the woods or down one of the roads, but it stayed where it was, as if frozen into position. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Fems, which had been nothing but tight hairy little curls, stood huge along the roads. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z I loved the smell of the dirt roads after it rained, and the spicy tamarind candy from the corner store. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z They took the DeSoto over snow-dazzled roads decorated with cracked and fallen branches and with the green twigs of cedars and hemlocks. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I’m watching the roads carefully, in case I ever do decide to make this journey alone, by foot or by bus. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The burbs ended suddenly, a last band of parks fading into the transport ring, where underground factories stuck their heads aboveground and cargo trucks drove concrete roads all day and night. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He and his team cut roads, built bridges and telegraph stations, installed telegraph poles, and strung thousands of miles of telegraph lines. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Yet as the quilt pattern developed, she thought it was as beautiful as the wild flowers that grew in the woods and along the edge of the roads. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Officers ordered them to clear and repair roads to the city. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z There at last were the darkened woods, the lonely roads, the river banks, the gentle knowing eyes. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Police found me two days later, wandering the dirt roads west of Calypso, wearing a grocery bag for underwear and covered in hickies I couldn’t explain. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z At one minute past seven, after a brisk cold walk, she rang the bell of a large, comfortable-looking villa in one of the roads a little way north of Jericho. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z We put headphones on when Didu's belting out songs about red roads, barroom brawls, magnolia blossoms, and lonely cowboys. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z ‘Your father begged on the roads, and your mother’s roora was a basket of stale millet! My roora was a herd of fine cows.’ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She considered the lines that were roads, the green patches that were parks, and the flat blue of the sound, so different from the tumultuous, gray-faced ocean, where she had grown up. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The roads were bad, too—so bad that the trucks were always getting flat tires. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Catherine could not walk very far now and I loved to ride out along the country roads with her. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z There aren’t any roads in the forest, but only a few jeep trails used by rangers, and airplanes are not permitted to fly over it. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z She was probably also wondering how she would drive home herself on roads with a frozen crust, and snow beneath that, and ice beneath that. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z A trailer is difficult to maneuver on mountain roads, is impossible and often illegal to park, and is subject to many restrictions. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The truck bounced and jolted us along some very bad roads, but we arrived safely at Kakuma. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Rivers, lakes, and seas were the only highways; there were no roads. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Father said we had to get home before the roads got busy. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Presents paved roads in China too; this was a type of construction he knew. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Motorists in Scotland and the North should be careful of black ice on the roads, and the Midlands should anticipate widespread patches of freezing fog. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z It was flat, not many trees, the same dusty red-clay dirt and grass as Soweto but with proper houses and paved roads and a sense of suburbia to it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The roads in this downriver neighborhood were full of potholes, the curbs choked with weeds and litter. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z When they tramped the roads or cut across the fields and he was silent for too long, Mace would say, “Guvnor, are you thinking about crumpet again?” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Amidst the silence of those solitary roads and desert hills, I heard it approach from a great distance. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z It covered the mountains and roads, the fields and the mews on Jon’s mountainside. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z There was little sign of the level going down, but the banks weren’t giving way and the roads were dry, so people thought the worst was over. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z ‘And other roads he may find that Gondor does not guard.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The snow erodes, leaving the potholes in the roads near our house filled with muddy water. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z These great roads are wonderful for moving goods but not for inspection of a countryside. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z There was one gap east of Chambersburg and beyond that all the roads came together, weblike, at a small town. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And they were all connected by trails and small roads that crossed and crisscrossed the forest like a spider’s web. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z In fact, mostly what the Forest Service does is build roads. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Her face was illuminated by the lights in the dashboard, and it appeared ghostly white set against the utter blackness of country roads. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The roads I take start to get less busy, and I get all turned around, unsure of whether I’m supposed to go left or right. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z ‘And that we shall not find on the roads to the Sea,’ said Galdor. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Now all roads were running together to the East to meet the coming of war and the onset of the Shadow. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “Who cares how the Romans built their roads?” she grumbled. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z It was made even harder because there were no good roads and the island was crossed by ranges of hills running from east to west. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z It took them the better part of an hour because the roads were curving two-lanes and they spent twenty minutes behind a light truck they couldn’t pull around. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I stood on top of the last hill before Peiping and saw the roads below me flow like living rivers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Many roads and tracks crossed the green fields, and there was much coming and going: wains moving in lines towards the Great Gate, and others passing out. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “I have the map of the aqueducts memorized, not these roads. And on paper you’re technically supposed to be smarter than me, right? So why don’t you tell us how to get out of here.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Trucks with flat beds loaded with empty potato barrels moved on the roads, and the mechanical potato digger turned up long windrows of pale-skinned tubers. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Never really thought much about Alabama’s red dirt roads, but now, all I can think about is kicking up their dust. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z They could see the roads now, clogged with refugees: a river of carts, wagons, water buffalo, mules, and people hurrying out of the city. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The roads were passable if you were patient and paid attention. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z If there was moonlight, you could see out there, down the back roads behind our store where the black folks lived, and from the balcony I’d look for him. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z As Grandma tore down the bumpy hill, then over and through the winding roads to get to the hospital, Genie did his best to hold the glass of milk steady. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Haphazard cedar fences lined the careless roads, which slid beneath the shadows of the trees and past the bracken meadows. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The three made their way down a series of hidden paths and public roads, Booth riding, the others on foot. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She did not see the oxcarts on the dusty roads loaded down with bunches of bananas. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Instead he explained how they were walking cross-country to Dunkirk to avoid the air raids along the main roads. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Oh, God, how I wish I’d grabbed a pencil right there in the supermarket and not trusted the roads home. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z It was a rare opportunity, he thought, to be able to glide over the roads. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Inka roads, by contrast, were built for llamas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In Baltimore the roads are all cobblestone, civilized and clean. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I sat in the back and tried not to throw up as Stephen Kellner navigated the undulating roads at unsafe velocities. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Tom steered him down one of the rutted work roads, his hand a sweating brick on Henry’s shoulder. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She had taken her time on the way home, avoiding major roads, and had spent the night in a tiny place in the mountains, the name of which she had already forgotten. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I had breathed fresh air, walked on paved roads, mingled freely with white people, rested upon green grass and eaten free hot dogs given to me by whites. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z From Nogales, they went south, west, and up into the highlands, often on dirt roads, to Altar. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They pedaled down roads they had seen only from a car before, and then down roads they had never seen at all. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z In the morning the haze of an Indian-summer day erased trees, fields, and roads. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He walked all morning, following back roads he hoped led away from the border. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He has a summer job, with the Works Department, filling in potholes in the roads, tarring over the cracks made by frost heave; he does have a faint tarry smell about him. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Cars slumped along the mud and gravel roads at twenty or thirty miles an hour like sluggish beetles beneath the overhanging trees. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z When he saw people on the roads, he was so naturally and irrepressibly social he would have stopped and told them. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They drove toward the lake over the park’s rough roads at the pace of a funeral cortege and with equal gloom. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z One of the slaves who could read used to tell the others what it said on those handbills that were nailed up on the trees, along the edge of the roads. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The Suli caravans had been following the same well-worn roads for years, and she had the skills to steal what she needed to survive until she found them. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Other than that, he went wherever there was room to go forward — along roads and alleys and railroad tracks, across fields and cemeteries and golf courses. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z As a result the community lost the blue and golden beauty of its autumn roads, where asters and goldenrod would have made a display worth traveling far to see. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z One was selling broomsticks, and he shuffled over the muddy roads like a walking stack of kindling. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The roads were safer in those days, but cautious folk would still travel with our troupe for safety’s sake. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z On the roads there were people, and they frightened the boy. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The roads were brown with sand and clear of snow, the driving dirty but easy. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z We used to ride around on the dirt roads on their farm. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z They drove in silence, along the same roads that Eliot and his mother took back to the beach house each evening. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z But some answered: ‘While we yet live? How long? He has a weapon that has brought low many strong places since the world began. Hunger. The roads are cut. Rohan will not come.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I didn’t see any roads connecting the villages and at the smallest patch of level ground, someone would flag the train down and get on carrying bundles of firewood, lemonade, or tamales for sale. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z All roads are empty and I pull into the Vacant Taxis lot. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The park’s roads are comparatively few and they are kept intentionally narrow, partly to slow traffic, partly to preserve an air of picturesqueness, and partly because of topographical constraints. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z For three days, Yakima was paralyzed and cut off from the world, its airport closed, its approach roads impassable. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z But there are horses on the roads and I’ll warrant alarums. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z They had gone up and down all the roads in every direction. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z “I hope the roads will be okay,” he says. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Forest Service roads are often not included, and, if included, they’re inconsistently identified. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “I’m sure George or Emmett could drive you, as long as the roads are okay,” Byrd says. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z There are many strange men on the roads. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Leah and I tried to explain to her how in Africa the roads are here today, gone tomorrow. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Remember that in the sixteenth century, motion meant riding on a galloping horse or in a carriage being pulled over rutted roads. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z There were none that I saw on the bridge, probably ’cause the roads were even worse on the other side. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z War Mountain was not as steep as the mountain out of Coalwood, but its roads were narrower and there were two curves that nearly doubled back on themselves. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He said that she must travel only at night, and she must stay off the roads because the patrol would be hunting for her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The world beyond ours is full of roads and dark buildings and collapsing power lines. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Here the roads seemed clear, but what if farther on they were still icy? The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z “Four month ain’t long for wood all the way from Aryen, not with the roads being as bad as they are.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In his course from meadows and rangeland to back roads and bullrings, Tom Smith had cultivated an almost mystical communion with horses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Most people who live out here have trucks since some of these roads can be pretty bumpy. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z "Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle. Who knows?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Schools would shut down, roads would close, no one would go off to their jobs. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z One day, in 1966, he came to us and said, “Gentlemen, the rains have washed away the lines on the roads, we need twenty kilos of lime today. Can you help?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I kept us on the most obscure back roads I knew, where only our headlights disturbed the darkness. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z No roads or farms or chimney smoke, just increasingly rough ground, exposed rock, and trees clinging to the bluffs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Other trucks headed back along the many primitive dirt roads that led to National Forest land where permit cattle grazed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I weave through its empty roads, darting between the flickers of sconce-lit streets, and pray I don’t run into one of the patrolling Sons of the Six. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I took my time going home, avoiding interstates in favor of back roads. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z No one travels into the interior of the Wood, although it must once have been populated, because numerous roads and tracks lead into it. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The road to Jalalabad is a two- hour trek through mountain roads winding along a steep drop, and my stomach lurched with each hairpin turn. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Or you love wild places or city parks and would like to make sure they stay that way and do not become polluted or get dug up for roads, houses, or shops. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Up in the black, were there roads through the stars, traveled by impossible beings? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The whole area was clear of trees and brush with roads going every which way. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They drove past the capitol dome of Madison, another perfect snowglobe scene in the falling snow, and then they were off the interstate, and driving down country roads. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The footpaths we followed spent a lot of time in the woods but also emerged at obliging intervals to take us along sunny back roads and over stiles and through farm fields and hamlets. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It was an exhausting journey, along rocky dirt roads, up and down hills, past numerous villages, but we did not pause. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Germans’ sawmill was always shut at that time of year, and it was hard to reach from all the main roads. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Could I get off in one of those towns, stay off the roads, and just walk through the woods?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I mean, so what if two roads go two ways in a wood? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Instead they look on ordinary roads where plastic wading pools and baseball bats are left out on the lawns. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z State troopers were watching on the highways and even the main back roads. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Another large hand grabbed both her arms and pulled them behind her in a viselike grip, dragging her off the main roads. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He ground through twenty-four-hour endurance tests and “stamina runs,” in which contestants looped up and down local roads until their beleaguered automobiles exploded or shed their wheels—the last one rolling was the winner. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Autumn was facing towards winter now, and I must get to my destination before the roads closed to fast traffic, and while there was still some good in getting there. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Local residents see groups of migrants walking down dirt roads naked, stripped of everything. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Papa said that they didn't do too well when the rains came and the roads was deep in mud. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There are no paved roads and virtually no buildings of metal or brick. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The routes along those waterways led to others that followed rivers from the Southeast and connected with roads that turned southward toward the Valley of Mexico. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Chattana was a city built on water, with canals serving the place of roads. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The water ran down the hillside gullies, pulling rocks and small trees with it, and spilled across the roads, tearing off chunks of asphalt. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Together they drive through the town, along the familiar tree-lined roads, his father asking after his studies. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z How many roads were there in the Outer City? When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Although he had grown up in a poor section of Milwaukee, the roads there were paved. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z "With the war in the riverlands and Lord Renly raising rebels in High- garden, the roads are closed to south and west." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They alone could walk the roads of Mississippi, the lanes of Georgia, the fields of Alabama unmolested. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked back up at the broad cinnamon roads that met in the shadow of her dress. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The slaves walked the roads between towns with their scavenged weapons: hatchets and scythes, knives and bricks. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “There’s just red dirt roads and hillbilly kids there.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z My feet carried me down familiar roads and around corners I’d turned a thousand times before. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z All the roads leading to the courthouse had been blocked off to normal traffic. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It didn’t follow any Indian trails or colonial post roads. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z My truck seemed to have no problem with the black ice that covered the roads. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z By now, the roads were filled with children swinging their fathers’ meal buckets and workers returning from saloons for the night shift. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Then we all crammed inside for the four-hour trip up winding, rutted roads to the mountains. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But on the roads their interests were engines, and weather, and maintaining the speed that makes a predictable schedule possible. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the silence from the speakers that unnerved me, more than the deserted roads or the empty shells of repossessed houses. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z On both sides of the stretch ran roads, and houses stood facing one another across the grass. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He and Werner met every couple of months on quiet rural roads. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z You cannot see the mountains opposite, you cannot see the houses on the hillside or even the roads or the lake down below. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z But the farther they got from the apartment, the more he started watching the roads. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “South Carolina is hundreds of miles from here-over bad roads. Lady Seymour would be dead by Philadelphia.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Unlike the steady stream of the highway, here rickshaws, motorcycles, trucks, and cars shared the narrow roads alongside bicycles and throngs of people. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Once upon a time there were three soldiers, tramping together down the roads after the war. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z From there, Booth began adding others, selecting them based on expertise with weapons, physical fitness, and knowledge of southern Maryland’s back roads and waterways. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z But now it was so dark, and the snow so hard, and the roads already getting bad, I don’t think either of us had much hope. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z “Yeah, I know! Everyone wants those fast carbon ones, but those things hurt unless you’re on the nice roads.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “I see no castles marked there. No roads, no towns, no villages.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He had to get permits, fill out dozens of forms, and organize plane flights and car transport in a region where there were no airports or roads. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Another was the use of so much wood in the construction of homes, offices, sidewalks, and roads. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Thousands were trudging the tracks, the roads, the fields. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Now there were only two roads he could take, or that God would allow him to take. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The roads were dirt and heavily traveled by horses and wagons. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z It read: So when we reach The Isle of Japan With our caps at a Jaunty Tilt We’ll enter the city of Tokyo On the roads the Seabees Built. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He walked south across the island alone in the early winter, along townless empty roads. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z With the muddy roads, it took two days to get to Windsor. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z They did not stop for two days, moving even during the day, staying well away from the roads as they did. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Out on Edmonton’s dirt roads, his legs swinging free from Forest Dawn’s sides while the toboggan bobbed along behind, Johnny decided he wanted to be a jockey. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z With its fine roads and great population movements, Tawantinsuyu was perfectly positioned for a major epidemic. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Fires raged and the roads out of Saigon were jammed with refugees and water buffaloes pulling overloaded carts and crying children searching for parents and retreating South Vietnamese soldiers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “They blocked all the roads and the telephone didn’t work. I was so worried!” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The roads were good this time of year, so we made excellent time traveling north through the Commonwealth: fifteen, twenty miles a day as we searched out new towns to play. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I found myself plunging over the roads of Washington, as dedicated to the sea as any migrating lemming. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Getting to the Potomac undetected means traveling down well-used public roads. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z In those first years the roads were peopled with refugees shrouded up in their clothing. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The roads where I live are still cracked and patchy, and it’s not safe to drive on them. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z All winter the Germans drive their horses and sledges and tanks and trucks over the same roads, packing down the snow, transforming it into a slick bloodstained ice-cement. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “You see, most of the campesinos around here can’t read, so it wouldn’t do us any good to put names on the roads.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There were alleyways and roads bordered by teetering piles of broken and damaged furniture, stowed away, perhaps, to hide the evidence of mishandled magic, or else hidden by castle-proud house-elves. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z These are, in fact, the engineering artifacts of intelligent beings: roads, highways, canals, farmland, city streets—a pattern disclosing the twin human passions for Euclidean geometry and territoriality. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Then deep folds in the ground were discovered unexpectedly, like the ruts of great giant-wheels or wide moats and sunken roads long disused and choked with brambles. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Ihe sylvan fields, forests, and shores had been mowed down, paved over, and built up with roads, bridges, hospitals, boatyards, jails, and military bases, cities in and of themselves. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Dust, stirred up by the day’s traffic on the roads, hung softly, a beige mist across the fields. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In his thoughts were vestiges of old skid roads and forgotten farm paths that bled into vales of ghost fern and hollows filled with skunk cabbage. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I knew my brother and other young men devoted years to maintaining the roads and their little sisters, the bridges. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Then the roads froze, and snow gathered in heaps on the rooftops, piled halfway up frost-caked windows. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z But there are pretty little bottle stores on the back roads of this state. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama swears she can get us to the address on time as long as she sticks to her side roads and backstreets. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z This was why he had to survive, and use his cunning to stay off the main roads where the circling dive-bombers waited like raptors. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Perhaps the child would end up being a serial murderer, like those women on television crime documentaries, standing half-naked on dark roads to lure truck drivers and then strangle them. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “If only you had taken the customary roads!” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The dead outnumbered the living, and there weren’t enough hands to bury the bodies piling up in the roads.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z He talked about learning of the dangers of distracted driving, vowing to “take this terrible situation and help make the roads a safer place for us and our families.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z So what if I suffered from full-fledged panic attacks every time I drove our beat-up '88 Camry through the winding, narrow roads to my new temporary digs? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Then she worked out the roads to it, and drew me maps and everything. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z There were no paved roads, minimal electricity, inadequate sewerage. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z They also show roads, buildings, railroads, transmission lines, mines and caves, vegetation, and towns, cities, rivers, lakes, canals, marshes, and waterfalls. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But horses are not inherently unbeatable; the Inka simply did not discover quickly enough where they had an advantage: on their roads. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z ‘Well, Mr. Frodo,’ said Sam, ‘I’ve been having a look round and thinking a bit. There’s nothing on the roads, and we’d best be getting away while there’s a chance. Can you manage it?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z In February 1945, when they were in western Prussia, once more the winter weather made the roads utterly impossible to travel on. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The pavement turned to dirt, then roads turned into paths, and dwellings grew increasingly forlorn and miserable. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z From where they stood, a dual set of roads branched off to the east. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Whispers filtered that the Allies had cut off access roads and train routes. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z All kinds of people, hundreds a day, driving down roads that, a year ago, only a few cars and a couple of kids on their bicycles had traveled. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z A day was named for roads and they all agreed to bring axes and things like that and chop out two roads running each way. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z During his second sentence on the roads of Florida, Adam reduced his personality to a minus. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z And so no cities, no giant plantations, and no roads necessary for transporting produce from the one to the other. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw the great stands of wheel trees and the roads lacing through the prairie, just as Mary had done from the same spot sometime before. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Hedgerows along country roads and bordering fields provide food, cover, and nesting areas for birds and homes for many small animals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Small ranches and dairy farms dotted the land, and sunflowers lined the back roads. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z We drove round to the back of the prison, and our convoy took small roads and byways into town. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Their land mines are still all over the country, they take off the leg or the arm of a child every day, and I know what could happen to us if we travel those roads. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But the Bronx doesn’t have this rough terrain, these concrete roads and rolling hills. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “She doesn’t need to. Everyone just slides around in their shoes. Let’s go on Sunday, after church. The roads will be clear by then, but the marsh should still be frozen.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z We walk alongside the busy roads until we reach the town center. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Five years ago, volunteer construction workers from Abnegation repaved some of the roads. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z There were more, and larger, villages, and more people on the roads. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z If the trucks got delayed by bad roads or bad weather, it might be a couple more days before we got anything to eat. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z It seems this war has cleared the roads of almost everything else. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z A small, sporadic stream of automobiles with faded paint and patched tires bounced along the rutted roads that paralleled the railroad tracks, all heading the same direction—west. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He doesn’t bother to honk, maybe because everyone else on the roads already is. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z All that was demanded of them was that they should keep the Great Bridge in repair, and all other bridges and roads, speed the king’s messengers, and acknowledge his lordship. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The college didn't want a farm, so it sold all the surrounding land to a developer who put in roads, sidewalks, and sewers, divided it up into lots, and sold it to builders. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z The Christmas decorations are on the roofs and all over the wide and tall trees that tower over the curving roads. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Makes you do what it wants, go where the laid-out roads say to. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She must have taken the children and joined the thousands of people on the roads. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The roads were paved with stone-flags, dark and hard; and beside their borders instead of trees there marched long lines of pillars, some of marble, some of copper and of iron, joined by heavy chains. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The roads are mostly empty, because it’s the war, though once in a while there’s a truck loaded with cut tree trunks or fresh lumber, trailing its perfume of sawdust. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Sam would call, as he and his donkey, Mary Lou, walked up and down the dirt roads of Green Lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z “We swam in the Roman swimming pool, we bicycled over country roads, we drove occasionally in the Stutz Bearcat belonging to a young bachelor engineer,” she remembered. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Goddamnit! You’re eighteen. How much growing up do you need to do? There are soldiers dying in the field at eighteen. Old enough to be left to die on the roads. Did you know that?” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z My mother said, “It’s still snowing. He won’t be out on the roads.” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z The roads confound him; they’ve knotted up, dark, antagonistic; he pits himself against them, valiant, a man doing battle for love. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “He said he has to go and bury her. But the roads are occupied. The roads are occupied,” she said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Where the well-to-do folks live? They have their own stores, paved roads...You've probably seen the path that leads to the side of town, lined with electric street lamps?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Their labor and their taxes helped to build roads, temples, nobles’ houses, and other structures. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The house, furniture, neighbourhood, and roads, were all to her taste, and Lady Catherine’s behaviour was most friendly and obliging. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z He thought of the many roads he had traveled, and of the strange way God had chosen to show him his treasure. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We drive on smooth concrete until the driver turns off the highway to lurch over dirt roads. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Behind them the sun went down and all the roads grew dark. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Kaan itself dug out a series of reservoirs, established neighborhoods around each one, and linked the ensemble with roads and waterways. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I knew immediately he was a chasqui, a foot messenger, one of the men who ran along the roads delivering news and goods to the four corners of the empire. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z They did not seem to recognize that for thousands of years Native people had been making roads and clearing spaces to make trading, hunting, and agriculture easier. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z When she was barely old enough to see over the windshield, Noah gave Christine driving lessons on quiet country roads. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Every few miles the states provided places of rest off the roads, sheltered places sometimes near dark streams. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Back then, more than five years earlier, the capital city was mired in corruption, with crumbling roads and buildings, slums in the middle of the city. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z And so you agree—you walk with the stranger along the hot, dusty roads, picking up other recruits, who hear the same story. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Ten years later, the Maine Appalachian Trail Club rerouted 263 miles of trail—half its total length across the state—removing the trail from logging roads and putting it back in the wilds. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z There was a blizzard that night, one of those mighty mountain storms that clears the roads and closes the towns. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “I wish they would stick to fields instead of blocking major roads. I’ve already donated money and I won’t be held up in the hot sun just to help further Ojukwu’s ambition.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Sometimes we left camp to chop ice, shovel snow, or work on roads. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z When it rained, fat gray drops plopped down upon the roads, then bounced up, as if in a half-hearted effort to escape. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “Have you ever seen any of the Lake Windsor High football guys out running? Like, along the roads?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In the predawn summer gray, vehicles, most of them old pickups with their lights on, pulled out of the hard-packed shiny dirt yards and began threading through the town’s narrow back roads. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We kept to the paths that serve as roads in Southern Sudan. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Some days I hauled lumber or stones; other times I pounded rocks into gravel or dug up cemetery markers that the Nazis then used to pave the roads. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Deserter soldiers and other opportunists were thick on the roads, making even short trips risky. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Well, you talk to your mother about it. And we’ll need to wait until I roll the roads. And until we have a clear day.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z There were not only many roads to choose from, there were also in many places holes and pitfalls, and dark wells beside the path in which their passing feet echoed. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Little houses lined the roads, houses with painted shutters and wreaths on the doors. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z The top is shaved off and a television relay station lunges at the sky and feeds a ner-vous picture to thousands of tiny houses clustered like aphids beside the roads. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Massa brung him back after a few days, and he put a iron collar round the boy’s neck so folks would know he was a runaway and not free to be on the roads.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The fumes from tourist traffic rose as the sun warmed the roads. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The roads would be impassable for cars and bikes, for almost any kind of vehicle. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Between roads the woods and plains moved too; the land was peopled—the Han people, the People of One Hundred Surnames, marching with one heart, our tatters flying. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z While construction crews began expanding roads and nailing together new buildings at Los Alamos, Oppenheimer turned to his next task: “a policy of absolutely unscrupulous recruiting of anyone we can lay hands on.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They explained that the seedpods needed the constant pounding they got on the hard roads if they were to crack at all, and also that the seeds were difficult to germinate. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The roads and mail system here are like our country, broken. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z All the foliage was neatly trimmed, in bright, beautiful colors, the roads devoid of even one small weed and paved in fancy yellow brick that began down by the waterfront. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The dirt roads of Mexico fulfilled all my longing for the unusual. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z We’ve swapped bright and sunny Old San Juan, where you can hear and smell the ocean from the streets, for these winding mountain roads. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Scouts reported that no enemies remained upon the roads east as far as the Cross-roads of the Fallen King. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z My heart racing, I drive fast on the paved town roads, heading for the colored part of town. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Gogol goes for runs around the lake with Gerald, arduous laps along steep hilly dirt roads, so infrequently traveled that they can occupy the dead center. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z On the roads outside town, we'd drive past the gateways to what were once slave plantations, though they were enough of a fact of life that nobody ever bothered to remark on them. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z You can always hear traffic on the big roads beyond the fencing, and there’s a general feeling they never properly finished converting the place. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Is like a web of roads. Is entire canal system. One canal leads to crossing place and meets with another,” explains one man Bernard, drawing lines in the dirt with a stick. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The river was not yet frozen, and wheels were on the roads still, for it rained more than it snowed on this coastal slope even now in the year’s last month. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Our van creaks as we drive along the small roads. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I ducked down one street after another, trying to find a way to the river, but the army had erected barricades at the ends of most of the roads to keep out the British. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Now here’s a good time to explain that footpaths are god’s gift to people trying to travel long distances without using roads. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z From the Pueblo communities of the Southwest, travelers took roads eastward onto the semiarid plains along tributaries of the Pecos River. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z In the night, going slowly along the crowded roads we passed troops marching under the rain, guns, horses pulling wagons, mules, motor trucks, all moving away from the front. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z By day they followed game trails and streambeds, the "ranger's roads" that led them ever deeper into the wilderness of leaf and root. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He looked at the sky, thinking about rain, about the slick clay roads, himself stalled somewhere miles from town. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Dirt roads so rich and black that a half mile of it would have fertilized a Kansas wheat field. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z She said, like she was talking to herself, “We can’t use the cart. There aren’t any roads, and the country is too rough.” Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The drive back home is slow, as if we are inching our way through muddy dirt roads. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Plaszów was a series of long, low buildings separated by dirt roads and surrounded by barbed wire. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z She lay in wait for the wayfarers along the roads to the city and whomever she seized she put a riddle to, telling him if he could answer it, she would let him go. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z "Three days, perhaps four, it is hard to know. We have eyes out along all the roads, but it would be best not to linger." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He would tell me of the horrors of the deadness, of the loneliness of silent roads and fields. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I look over my left shoulder and see the headlights burning gold against the gray buildings and roads. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z All the towns east-west roads dead-ended into Erie, and that day I glanced down every one to watch the lake spit chunks of dirty foam onto the beach like some angry, stalking beast. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z As we wind along the narrow mountain roads, I try to re- member everything I can about what happened to my cousins Zoyla and Gregoria. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was no longer safe to walk along the roads at night, no longer safe to walk about the plantation where they lived, at night. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The roads didn’t have shoulders like they did back home. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z There were hills with trees all over them and occasionally there were roads with the lights of cars moving along. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘And of course I’ll come back soon: it won’t be dangerous any more. There is a real king now, and he will soon put the roads in order.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z We follow winding roads through ancient green groves, woodlands filled with secrets and murmurs and mist. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “They built aqueducts, roads—” “Siege weapons,” Frank added. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I thought that if I kept talking, and praying underneath, and if we kept moving along those mountainous roads, we had a chance. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Native peoples also left an indelible imprint on the land with systems of roads that tied their nations and communities together across the entire landmass of the Americas. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Then the roads narrowed and the lumber trucks roared past me. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She says the roads are getting too crowded. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The answer was to make the roads and sidewalks out of wood and elevate them above the waterline, in some places by several feet. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z “Rather impious of mortal man to do the gods two better, but there you are. The stone roads of Valyria were one of Longstrider’s nine. The fifth, I believe.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Few trains were running, and many roads were still in ruins. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z We could avoid the main line of the retreat by keeping to the secondary roads beyond Udine. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z But here, there isn’t even a slice of happiness big enough to fill up all these empty houses, and broken buildings, and wide roads that lead to nowhere and everywhere. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “These roads are a dinger,” Gramps said, but he was like a little lad riding a hobby horse. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z And this was the shape of the roads between Willesden Junction and Chapter Road. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z There were fewer trees and fewer garis pulled by horses, but more cars, taller buildings, more traffic lights and more paved roads. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Fortunately there were very few vehicles on the roads in those days. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z I had never before driven on roads between Port Elizabeth and Cape Town, and I was looking forward to many miles of entrancing scenery. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z What roads there might be were under five or ten feet of snow, and we may have crossed several without knowing it. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, crisscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “We have many dark roads to travel. We must start—” The image shimmered. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Because of the state of the roads he beat them to the hospital in Seattle, flying through the clouds in a medevac helicopter. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “We are making a dirty, brown, dying-looking mess along the sides of our roads,” a New England woman wrote angrily to her newspaper. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z As he approached, a man climbed a tree to watch the roads. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z And then the countryside started and there were fields and cows and horses and a bridge and a farm and more houses and lots of little roads with cars on them. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z There are no roads left in all of Southern California that go anywhere we want to be. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z And, of course, in many practical ways, the Romans were much more advanced than the Elizabethans—better roads, central heating, proper baths. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In the rainy season, the roads were a muddy mess. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He searched floors, roads, and fields for grains of rice, beans, or cow dung that contained undigested kernels of corn. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z We stood against walls of houses and inspected the tiny gravel roads between houses before crossing to another house. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The sun rose higher as the morning went on, drawing heat from every crevice of the city’s roads and buildings. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Bridge didn’t examine the idea too closely because she liked it and hoped, really hoped, that it was true about the long, hard roads. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z “Authorities are suggesting that people stay off the roads and indoors,” the announcer said. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The new spur enabled Garfield's train to move up to the cottage's porch, sparing him a wagon ride over rough roads. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z No roads cross it; ponds and lakes freckle its immensity. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They traveled down a narrow channel over which other roads crossed on high bridges. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z She idled through the roads quietly, trying to lay out a map in her mind. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z His new father, Chris, told him that dirt roads did exist out in the countryside, but there were none in Salva’s new neighborhood. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z My father was not there when they left; the roads were opening up and all the highway crews were working. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “But remember that good intentions pave many roads. Not all of them lead to hell.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Once it had been a joy to follow those roads through the evergreen forests, roads lined with bayberry and sweet fern, alder and huckleberry. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But mostly because, as the trees froze and ice sheathed the roads, the chill between Baba and me thawed a little. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z There are dirt roads in other parts of Baltimore, but this part of the city nearest to city hall has nicer streets. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z It isn’t even an inch, but in this part of Oregon a slight dusting brings everything to a standstill as the one snowplow in the county gets busy clearing the roads. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z You could drive a sled over the snow anywhere you wanted without paying attention to where the roads were. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The barren landscape made all the snow-covered roads look the same. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z No cars traveled the roads, no creatures howled or sniffed or chuffed, and the wind, a constant in the cornfields of Illinois, pulled in on itself and snoozed like a cat. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The roads, the river, the trees, the bridge... The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Thanks to the wagering ban, the only places for it to go were seedy tracks, backwater ovals so small they were called “bullrings,” and dirt roads, but this was Irwin’s kind of racing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z There were some farm trucks on the roads now and she had to weave through them and watch traffic. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z But here and there he caught the gleam of spears and helmets; and over the levels beside the roads horsemen could be seen riding in many companies. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Then he pointed us to the back of an old run-down pickup and drove us down a bunch of dirt roads toward their work site. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z I^efugees streamed out of Boston; we saw them on the roads, carrying everything they owned. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Plots within plots, but all roads lead down the dragon s gullet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Along the dirt roads, the gutters were filled with small rivers of filth and debris that smelled of rotting food and rank liquids. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Our water is the Appalachian wilderness, our boats, the army surplus jeeps we count on to navigate our washboard roads and the hairpin curves across the mountains. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And out to the very edges of the roads that led from the town to general stores where farmers came on Saturday nights and sat around the stove. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The roads are packed with Dauntless soldiers, all marching at the same rhythm except the officers, who stand every few hundred yards, watching us walk by, or gathering in clusters to discuss something. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Twisted and leaning pillars reared their splintered stems above the flood, but all the roads were drowned. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He may walk along old familiar streets and roads, but he is a stranger in a strange land. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘For there may be more roads than one that could bear that name. But I did not say that I would bid you ride with me on any road. Good night!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z If there were cavalry here, the roads and routes would be known. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z After many hours of jolting and bumping along the roads in the j eep—after nearly a week of exhausting travel— Salva entered the shanty that served as a recovery room at the makeshift hospital. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Hatun described his time laboring on the roads and bridges, and how some of the men had been hard-working while others were lazy. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z At a time when every fiber of their being cries out for sleep and food, they press forward over muddy, rutted roads, enduring rain and chill and the constant harassment of Union cavalry. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Refugees flooded the roads, desperately looking for safety as Communist troops pushed south toward Saigon in their final “Ho Chi Minh Campaign.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I looked all around TJ, at the ghetto buildings and the narrow bridges and the run-down shops and beat-up roads. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z If once he could go, his anger would bear him down all the roads of the world, pursuing, until he had him at last: Gollum. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z And the father would set his heels and think, When the roads come in—then will be the time. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They pulled up train tracks and blocked roads. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “I heard word that there are thousands of refugees from the North who are heading south. The trains are packed full and the roads are clogged with refugees.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Several hours later, they were out of the city walking on dirt roads with thousands of other people. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Between Bechuanaland and the northwestern Transvaal, dozens of unmarked roads traverse the border, and Cecil knew just which ones to take. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Such maps focused on roads, passes and fords, ignoring everything to left or right of the main route. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Back then, the way cars was and the way dirt roads was, you didn’t need to go far for some adventure. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe he was, because at one point, he remarked: “Kath, you really know some weird roads.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun came up later on and melted it, making the roads muddy, especially after the cattle had churned it up. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the next twenty days we sometimes followed roads, sometimes only paths. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z It takes many days for the teachers to get to our area, and the roads are in poor condition. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z But I managed to keep running after the bus for a long way and I crossed 6 side roads before it turned down another street and I couldn’t see it anymore. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Joe Mondragon, off on a wood run, drove like a maniac over the mesa’s potholed dirt roads, a beer in one hand, the radio blasting. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There were the hornbeam trees a little way ahead of them; there were houses, trees, roads, and in the distance the towers and spires of the city. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There were hundreds of Negroes surrounding me, they were hands in the fields, who chopped the cotton, who worked the roads, who sawed the lumber to make our houses. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z No one was injured or killed, though the ten-foot surge caused heavy damage to buildings and roads along the waterfront. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Bordering this, where the mountains turned to foothills, the map showed rolling country with quite a few roads but hardly any towns, which, we thought, ought to mean farmland. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z I explored alleys and hidden roads I never knew existed. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z “Out in the fields here. The cook said we would come to a place where several roads come together in the sky.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Masvita would cry because her spirit might be wandering along the dark roads. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I laughed because Nsukka s untarred roads coat cars with dust in the harmattan and with sticky mud in the rainy season. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The page she’d opened to appeared to be a map of Turkey, though no roads were marked and no borders indicated. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “Or it means the roads will be twice as hard to pass,” he said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But in the background of all the conversations among the visitors to the island was indignation at the despoiling of the roads they had traveled. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It’s astonishingly noisy and stinks of gasoline and the tar of melting roads. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It must have been one of those bad roads. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z These are our roads, the black lines on the map. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The trees were smaller now, and the roads looked like strips of paper. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The delayed installations meant that temporary tracks and roads had to remain in place. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Other roads led from the northern Rio Grande to the southern plains of what is now western Oklahoma by way of the Canadian and Cimarron Rivers. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z By two o’clock on the first afternoon of the trial, snow had covered all the island roads. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z On and on they flew, over countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscape like strips of matte and glossy ribbon. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “Sule said they are blocking the roads and searching for infidels. Come, come.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The crop birthed communities, requiring nails and braces for houses, the tools to build the houses, roads to connect them, and more iron to keep it all running. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Now, the roads were more like flat fern and moss-choked paths. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z This corner of southwestern Idaho is unrelentingly poor and plain, with vast stretches of empty roads and treeless farmland, intersected by equally vast swatches of fast-food franchises and car dealerships. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides, roads change, increase, are widened or abandoned so often in our country that one must buy road maps like daily newspapers. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I ran the winding roads to school in the spring and fall, ate rye soup and bread in our steamy kitchen when the snow was too deep. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Whitcross is no town, nor even a hamlet; it is but a stone pillar set up where four roads meet: whitewashed, I suppose, to be more obvious at a distance and in darkness. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Soon we were lost on the back roads somewhere near Bani. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z European-style roads, constructed with horses and cars in mind, view flatness as a virtue; to go up a steep hill, they use switchbacks to make the route as horizontal as possible. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They were called lumber roads because trucks and wagons had made them years before when the land was timbered. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Finally, all movement and motion in town broke down; the roads became blocked by stuck vehicles. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In the future, according to Tomorrow's World, cars will drive themselves along strips implanted in roads. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Ifemelu stared out of the window, half listening, thinking how unpretty Lagos was, roads infested with potholes, houses springing up unplanned like weeds. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Catelyn could just make out the muddy crossing where the two great roads met. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z We hadn’t gone far, but we had to make some detours on the way home because the roads were so flooded. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was always hard labor—digging cisterns, building roads, hauling bricks, crushing rocks. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z On the roads nearby nothing was moving now; but Sam feared the watchful eyes on the wall of the Isenmouthe, no more than a furlong away northward. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Its packed earth was much more heavily traveled than the roads in Zmeyreka. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z On the inside of the mountains, where the rock for the houses and the roads and churches and towers used to be, is the secret that everyone who lives here knows. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z But the Navy Yard Bridge will take him into the quiet backcountry of Maryland, home to smugglers and back roads. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The rainy season would arrive any day swelling the river and washing out the roads. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Cars careened off roads and into ditches, where their occupants clutched cloths to their faces, struggled to breathe, gagged, and coughed up dirt. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Just twenty-one miles of it—less than 1 percent of the total—are on public roads, mostly on bridges and where it passes through towns. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The roads all go along the river mouths to the sea and to cross the country you must go along the paths beside the canals. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The roads were filled with people, everybody running and begging for rides from passing trucks. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The roads were unpaved and dirty, and filled with hungry, undernourished children scampering around half-naked. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Navigating by trees and rivers, railway tracks and the long straight scars of Roman roads. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Two dirt roads ending in cul-de-sacs had been cut into the dusty ground, although the roads had eroded so much I could barely see their outlines. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Her own daughter planning to move to a communistic nation where the roads are practically made of wall-to-wall land mines? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Seas of people, forests of buildings, roads wide as rivers. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It was May, remember, and the wandering men had only recently taken to the roads, now that the warming months let them spread their blankets by any water course. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z These aren’t nearly as busy as the main roads but they are definitely way more...interesting than I remember. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The roads were always bad, of course, in the same way that winter was always cold. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He waves his flashlight forward and says quickly, “Be careful on the roads, we have a lot of end-of-the-school-year and graduation parties going on.” A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z After enduring too many trips on Highway 3, I was relieved to find that most roads around Havana were paved. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Sometimes Mameh and I would walk down those dirt roads behind the store and so many of those roads dead-ended into woods. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Ophelia peppered him with questions, like why were so many people here hopelessly sick, and why weren’t the roads better? Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He could not leave Chicago; all roads were blocked, and all trains, buses and autos were being stopped and searched. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z My eyes grew dry as I stared out the window, refusing to blink, refusing to miss a single second of watching the trees and roads and cars and houses slowly grow larger and larger. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z We had embarked on different roads that put us in conflict with one another. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Without him I would most likely have ended up along one of those dead-end roads many black youngsters found themselves on. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z "Gee! I didn't know that, sir. Then I'll have to try some of the roads." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually, there were deserts and more forests and mountain ranges and even an ocean, all accessible by large networks of roads that unwound this way and that, like great spools of yarn. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z As said Pomp, we looked like an army of phantoms, marching upon those roads. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z All afternoon, the mishus’ truck bounces over rocks, around potholes, jerking us this way and that along mountain roads. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The eunuch had suggested that perhaps Littlefinger had met some misfortune on the roads. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Now in the fall the trees were all bare and the roads were muddy. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The roads were insanely narrow, winding through forests and up the sides of hills and around the edges of steep ravines. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “If you were sorry you wouldn’t be driving that vehicle down my roads until you turned sixteen.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z “Yes! And if you ever did get any crops, the roads would be washed out so you’d never get your stuff into town anyway.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In Mammachi’s time, Paravans, like other Untouchables, were not allowed to walk on public roads, not allowed to cover their upper bodies, not allowed to carry umbrellas. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Rain had told me to stay off the county roads, but that I’d be okay so long as I stuck to Garland property. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z To the centre all the roads ran between their chains. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z It is crowded and filthy and stinking, with open sewers, unpaved roads, and choking air thick with dust. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It had been built long ago when the traffic on the roads had been far greater. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z And where was I, the girl or woman called Orleanna, as we traveled those roads and crossed the lines again and again? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There must be some feature of the mineral content of these stone roads that made them run in ribbon-like lines over the vast savanna, and be so resistant to weathering or cracking. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Wild creepers burst through laterite banks and spill across the flooded roads. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was all open park-like country with no roads or houses in sight. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The roads to the city were covered with sharp pebbles only half buried in the thick dust. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Along all the roads troops were moving; for the Captains of the West were advancing and the Dark Lord was speeding his forces north. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The roads were slippery on our way upstate and our car flew into the Hudson River. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Like hanging around on the roads was the world’s best entertainment. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Red taught her to drive a car along the roads lined with redwoods. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In other words, an old city that was razed, burned to cinders, and crushed into the ground, even the roads disappearing, the earth left to run wild over the wreckage. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z To say that these guys like to build roads barely hints at their level of dedication. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Winged seeds lay beneath the tulip trees, and all along the roads milkweed pods began to spill white silky threads. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z We had worked through a network of secondary roads and had taken many roads that were blind, but had always, by backing up and finding another road, gotten closer to Udine. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z They stopped at the center of camp, where two wide stone- paved roads met at a T. A street sign labeled the road to the main gates as via praetoria. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z When I was told the village was in a valley completely surrounded by mountains, the nearest hospital a two-hour drive over terrible roads, I was delighted. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There are enough antiques for sale along the roads of New England alone to furnish the houses of a population of fifty million. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dust? I guess you mean it in some other sense than the dust on the roads. No, I never did. But look! There’s a troop of angels now....” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I need to go seventy miles today. Dirt roads.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The gaps between the buildings narrow and the roads are smoother as we near the heart of the city. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Then they rode ten more hard miles on tree-lined country roads. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z As often as I could I chose the small wood roads, and they are not conducive to speed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He said he was going to help repair roads destroyed by the war and to build new ones. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z There the pavement ended, and rutted dirt roads began. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z ‘The air is filled with storm spirits and gryphons. All roads to the Acropolis are patrolled by the Earthborn.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z One afternoon, I was on one of these getaway rampages, racing down the small side roads that spiderweb our property. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For a time the roads were endangered by a fantastic creature, half man and half ape, that a traveller to the West had captured and brought back to China in a cage. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘If there’s a few decent respectable folk on the roads, that won’t do no harm,’ he said. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z They were well-traveled roads that tracked major rivers, like the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, Columbia, Colorado, and the Rio Grande. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Since the Troubled Times, all roads bad been cleared of undergrowth for the distance of a bowshot an either side—but this glade, on account of peculiarities in the terrain, had been overlooked. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Tears would form in my eyes as I continued my stroll on the tiny gravel roads in Mattru Jong. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z In my mind I could see it because I have seen people running away—the roads clogged to a standstill and the stampede over the cliff of our own designing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Chalking roads for my Corgi cars down his garden path. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Because of the congestion on the roads to Jena, some protestors left their vehicles and walked into town on foot. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The roads were empty and I was accompanied only by the stars and gentle Transvaal breezes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z More importantly, driving seemed to cost much less than using public transport — an illusion created by the fact that the price of a new car did not include the price of building new roads. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z It all looked precisely like northern Ohio to me, with its flat land and long, straight roads, and I thought what a very long journey this was going to be. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Down the street, at the crossing of Mill and Marcher roads, the crowd thickens and more villagers join the current. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z “The Yunkai’i do not inspire confidence. Whatever the outcome of this war, the Windblown should share in the spoils of victory. Our prince is wise to keep all roads open.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I thought it was fairly brave—or stupid—considering the commonwealth of Virginia had never considered it a priority to install lights on its highways and roads. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The roads are worn and full of holes. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z A few streams and narrow roads cut meandering paths through the trees. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z They found only “would-be rescuers and thrill-seekers” crowding the local roads. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z In the Hearse Colin drove as fast as the roads would permit, with the windows down to try to cool off. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Some also built roads and highways such as the Autobahn. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Even if he and Goblin had dawdled a bit on country roads, they both liked arriving at the inns at a gallop. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Who had ever heard of roads in the sky? Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z It was quite unlike the brutal, rational way roads in Will’s world sliced through hillsides and leapt across valleys on bridges of concrete. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Since my return, I seen there was more cars and even more paved roads. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They live in huts scattered along the sunken roads, in the woods, and against the slopes of the hills. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z We walked country roads all the way home. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Past Portland and the first exits for Freeport, Dad helpedSookie navigate a series of country roads overgrown with bushes and trees that blocked my view to the water. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z In due course, they moseyed off into the nearby narrow roads and alleyways. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He had read about Valyrian roads, but this was the first he had seen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Whole roads are blocked with wreckage and shattered buildings. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The roads were deserted except for an occasional hunting party in red hats and yellow jackets, and sometimes with a deer or an elk draped over the hood of the car. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The roads squirmed with traffic; the cities were so dense with people that all attention had to be devoted to not hitting anyone or not being hit. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Bumpy roads and no signs, no stores, no gas stations. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z He followed the roads with his finger, all converging on that one small town. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The summer sun streamed in and made dusty, down-slanting roads from the window to the floor. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z What generals wanted were not accurate maps but sketch maps that showed the roads along which troops and supplies should move. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “You heard them. This will go like it has gone before. We will hope no one tries to enter our homes. And the roads are where you die.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The tenant had to pay the taxes and build and maintain the roads. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He danced an elephantine jig, stomping snow on the carpet, flung a long woolen scarf from his neck, and yelled, "Otis Amber is here, the roads are clear!" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s three years older than me and great-looking, tall with wavy blond hair, finishing LSU law school, protected by a hundred and seventy miles of badly paved roads. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I am an early riser anyway, and at 3 A.M. the roads are empty and quiet, and one can be alone with one’s thoughts. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The roads here are so wide and straight and clean. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z As the weather grew colder, Alvarez heard more truck traffic on the roads outside. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z A little past the Body Shop and Pipe Queen he turned right onto Strawberry Mesa, bouncing over a maze of rutted roads to the Evening Star hippie commune. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The roads, still packed with vendors, felt even more crowded than before, so compressed with people that it was impossible to walk without being jostled. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Koffi looked over her shoulder a final time before heading down the market’s winding roads. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z "Here!" she says, settling down in a patch of shade cast by a wall at the corner of two busy roads. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The town roads have been plowed, so we have no trouble crossing Chokecherry. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The roads to Neah Bay are long and laced through thick evergreen groves. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z They drove on the back roads to avoid the chaos of refugees. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It provides no trees to hide behind, no side roads to sneak down. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They even asked the Biafran soldiers, the ones who told them they could not go any farther because the roads were occupied. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z As they rumbled along the muddy roads of Paris, an uncomfortable silence settled on the group. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Yet we spend money and spend money on roads and dam if it isn’t like trying to drive over a sheet of corrugated iron roofing. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d had to stay awake and read maps, to find roads without tolls. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z When taxpayers understand that the bill for spraying the town roads should come due only once a generation instead of once a year, they will surely rise up and demand a change of method. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There were circles of charcoal, tire tracks off side roads and, since the men came back from the war, broken bottle glass all over the reservation. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Too much rain would muck up the roads. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The truck bumped along the roads toward the elementary school, swerving around debris from the storm. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “May all your stories be glad ones, and your roads be smooth and short.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Ghost trucks drive the same roads at night, coming on fast with their bright lights flashing and engines revving loud. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z The trip was up one hill and down another on humpback roads, two feet deep in dust all the way. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Straggling, unpaved roads, which became treacherous quagmires with each infrequent rainfall, were the only means of getting from one village to another. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Between Coalwood and Big Creek High School were eight miles of twisting, potholed roads. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I myself was against taking it, but mostly because the roads were so pocked with bomb holes that I didn’t know how we’d drive the thing. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “Which way exactly are these Thirty-ninth and Eighth roads?” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z It gets me home much faster than the old bus route, which takes the back roads and stops in every small town. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z But here, at the end of every road are more roads. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Please note, Mrs. Miller, that the “connection to the assignment” is that it involves two roads diverging—not in a yellow wood, like in Frost’s poem—but someplace else. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “Anyway, their shape, and the roads, and the wheel trees coming together all made it possible. A lot of little chances, all coming together. When did your part of the story begin, Will?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “I’ve been a few times with him. You people have terrible roads.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The truckers left their vehicles along the roads. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Hercules Hot Dogs were side-of-the-road places, and usually not the nicest roads. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A war leaves holes in so much more than the dams and roads that can be rebuilt. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Starting with that one truck he had built himself a company that specialized in oil field construction—building roads and drill sites. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I watched its tires spin dangerously close to the gravel at the roads edge. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “But Chris says with a good load of that gravel on the low place, we wouldn’t have a bit of trouble. The county keeps the roads clear for the school bus.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z The roads were so muddy and filled with giant potholes that no truck was willing to come to the house. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The summer population must be large and the roads and highways gorged with refugees from the sticky heat of Boston and New York. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She drove the car and trailer on paved and dirt roads between Norfolk, Suffolk, Portsmouth, Virginia Beach, and North Carolina. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z So I walked without thinking about which roads to take. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z There I was shivering in the rain, surrounded on every side by mud huts, mud roads, mud everything. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The truth was that I had turned off the big highway 104 and into the smaller roads because the traffic was heavy and passing vehicles threw sheets of water on my windshield. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of the fair’s fifty-seven miles of roadway were still either submerged or coated with mud, and others had been gouged and trenched by vehicles that had used the roads while they were still sodden. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But I do like the feeling of getting into my little car, knowing for the next couple of hours I’ll have only the roads, the big grey sky and my daydreams for company. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z They stretch for a couple of blocks in either direction, then turn into dirt roads, then into wavy fields that rise into mountains. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z On the main island, wild horses walk the roads. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Strikers picketed on public roads near the mine. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z The roads were so bad that school was canceled for a week, and Dad couldn’t come get me from Lanternwood. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z “But if all the roads arrive at the same place at the same time, then aren’t they all the right way?” asked Milo. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z As a teenager, Nguyen found odd jobs to do for the Americans on the nearby base, digging ditches and fixing potholes in roads. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z There were no houses, no animals, no major roads. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Traffic on roads and streets was not unusual that night, casting doubt on accounts of tens of thousands of people fleeing on foot or in their cars. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z There were lots of little roads that kept turning in among the trees and brambles and flowers. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Unlike the muddy tracks that passed for roads in the Seven Kingdoms, the Valyrian roads were wide enough for three wagons to pass abreast, and neither time nor traffic marred them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “But it’s hardly sticking to the roads. Maybe you should consider a snow amoeba.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z As she lay moaning in her bed, Harry set off for Bonners Ferry, Idaho, eighteen miles away on twisting mountain roads, to fetch a doctor. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She said that they had “long, hard roads ahead” and that you should just wish them well. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z They may simply have needed extra lime for the island’s roads. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They walked side by side, and I walked with them through the winding roads of the forests. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z I saw roads choked with dilapidated cars, motorcycle rickshaws, and battered minibuses that served as public transportation. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z There they were—the roads in the sky! Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z He began to talk about buying a farm and drove her up and down island roads where property was for sale. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “How could they do that? There’s no roads.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Down there, for us, had come to mean the south, the world below the plateau of ice, the region of earth, men, roads, cities, all of which had become hard to imagine as really existing. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z In those miles, along the twisted roads beside the steep mountain, I feared that I would never get back to America, civilization, English and wide streets again. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z This is who I came to see, Chronicler thought to himself, this is the man who counseled kings and walked old roads with nothing but his wit to guide him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I keep exactly to the speed limit and stay on the back roads. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I was still so sick to my stomach from traveling all those curvy West Virginia roads that all I could do was swallow and nod, swallow and nod. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z And even if you manage to get a harvest, why, you need roads to take it out! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And the game had come back, too; deer strayed on the roads and there were marks of bear. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z There are the usual farms and country roads, and numbered streets. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The roads on the map twined and twisted round each other, hesitating, then they rose up off the paper, no longer roads, but thick eels with amber eyes. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a couple of miles there going around by the roads, but by cutting across the fields I could make it in fifteen minutes. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There was coastal flooding, which meant that the low lying highways and many side roads and ramps would be closed. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z The police politely offer alternate routes, back roads that will take people where they need to be. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I recalled when Yawar had visited our family to say that it was time for Hatun to serve the emperor by helping with the roads and bridges. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The roads on it were marked with velvet black ink, rivers a pearly blue, mountains a speckled green. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z A wagon was rare in the summer, when the roads were easily passable, but it was autumn now, and snow would be coming anytime; travel so close to snowfall was nonexistent. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The road they were on led through the center of the park until it branched apart about halfway through and went as two roads to the two different beaches. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Several letter writers complained that Orson Welles and his cohorts intentionally misled the public by naming actual towns, roads, and government agencies. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z They had ridden for some four hours from the branching of the roads when they drew near to the Fords. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z And now where you have roads of asphalt for the passage of rubber tires, then the roads were of crushed stone for the passage of oxen, and mule teams, and horse-drawn wagons. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z From the top of the ride, Kat says London looks like toy-town and the cars on the roads below look like abacus beads going left and right and stopping and starting. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z I followed a few winding roads until I reached the market. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The way I feel on the roads is how I’ve felt in general since we arrived in this country. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Henry pushed the truck as fast as it could go down the dusty back roads. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Without discussing it they had agreed to take the long route, along the winding back roads, in order to stretch out these last few minutes together. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The winding roads hid them from view, but they could hear the loud stomping of soldiers in the streets. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Links of broken chain dangled from its bloodstained neck, dragging along dirt roads and clanking as it walked. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z There were only two roads in and out. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Around it is a web of concrete roads with buildings sandwiched between them. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “When we took off at dawn, a frosty mist shrouded the ground. Below, settlements flashed and trucks moved along roads,” said Zhenya. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He didn't stop until cars and buses began to snarl and belch their way through the roads of the park, filling his nose and mouth with gas and oil fumes. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The meager harvests may be enough for subsistence but can rarely be brought to market because farm villages are often hours away on dirt roads from the nearest large town. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z What little conversation there was focused on the state of the roads. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “Even a simpleton knows there’s two roads to Haven,” he says, his voice calm and silky, almost smirking but not quite. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z |
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