Highway

Examples

• He recognized Venn as his companion on the highway, but made no remark on that circumstance, merely saying, Ah, reddleman--you here? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The above-mentioned highway traversed the lower levels of the heath, from one horizon to another. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The road is an important highway, and there are usually people there. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• These Jews had returned to their old position of danger; again they were seeking peace in, so to speak, the middle of a highway. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Just write a couple of messages for me: 'Sumner, Shipping Agent, Ratcliff Highway. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• We arrived, as he said those words, at a place where the highway along which we had been walking branched off into two roads. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Over against this temple, on the other side of the great highway, at twenty feet distance, there was a turret at least five feet high. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Murder, manslaughter, arson, forgery, swindling, house-breaking, highway robbery, larceny, conspiracy, fraud? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The great universal highway overhead is now soon to be opened. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• These are mounted and ready to start on the highway to affluence. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The lawn is thirty yards across, and is only divided from the highway by a low wall with an iron rail above it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Venn made a farewell obeisance, and walked back to his former position, where the byroad from Mistover joined the highway. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It is certain that he who robs another of his moral reputation, more richly merits a gibbet than if he had plundered him of his purse on the highway. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Briarmains stood near the highway. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• They have taken the highway; we should not encounter them. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The problem of the incline is an important one to engineers who have under their direction the construction of our highways and the laying of our railroad tracks. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The prevalent lie is to explain how the new convert, standing upon a mountain of facts, began to trace out the highways that led from hell to heaven. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The thoroughfares and highways of civilization fairly swarm with thousands of glistening and silently gliding wheels. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

Editor: Mamie