"On the road" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... eight o'clock, and my man was putting up the shutters, when suddenly we heard the tramp of feet on the road outside, and then ...
— The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy
... have trouble with that boy," thought Fletcher. "Wait till we get on the road." Aloud he said: "If you had mentioned the matter to me I would have found someone to go with us. You had better tell this Yankee that we haven't room for him, and ...
— In A New World - or, Among The Gold Fields Of Australia • Horatio Alger
... threatened and implored her, but Haennchen was deaf to oaths and entreaties alike. Outside she found the miller's son playing happily, and called him to her. "Go to father as quickly as you can," she said, putting him on the road to Hersel. "You will meet him down there. Tell him there is ...
— Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine • Lewis Spence
... said the ostler, who was harnessing the animal. "You'll find he ain't such a screw as you think. You'll need to keep a steady hand on him all the way, pertikler on the road home, or he'll screw you a way you ...
— My Friend Smith - A Story of School and City Life • Talbot Baines Reed
... to the country which was the scene of disorder for the purpose of serving the processes. On the 15th of July (1794), while in the execution of his duty, he was beset on the road by a body of armed men, who fired on him, but fortunately did him no personal injury. At daybreak the ensuing morning a party attacked the house of General Nevil, the inspector, but he defended himself resolutely and obliged the assailants ...
— Life And Times Of Washington, Volume 2 • John Frederick Schroeder and Benson John Lossing
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