bridle road

Example Sentences

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There is nothing for it but to take the bridle road up the hill, and try what we can discover on the other side.

From The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English by Castle, Egerton

Brynhild walked with me through the long glades in the fresh thin air to the bridle road where my men and ponies waited, eager to be off.

From The ninth vibration and other stories by Beck, L. Adams (Lily Adams)

"Why, sir, we met a suspicious character on the old bridle road beyond Reilly's, and he refused to take him prisoner."

From Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William

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

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