bridle road

Example Sentences

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A bridle road invites, but the thoroughfare being intercepted by brushwood and overhanging branches, it is not easy to effect a passage.

From The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba by Goodman, Walter

Those who were not on duty, to use a military phrase, returned across the moors by the way they came, and consequently reached the bridle road we have spoken of, together.

From The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by Carleton, William

We cross the railway near a station, which, as a cottager told me is “Mr. Pease’s station; built for hisself, and not for everybody;” and take a bridle road leading to the hill.

From A Month in Yorkshire by White, Walter

Not far from where they landed a bridle road passed by, leading from the south.

From The Golden Grasshopper A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham by Kingston, William Henry Giles

From Martigny a bridle road branches off which leads across the Grand St Bernard to Aoste.

From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Frye, Major W. E