HIGHROAD in a Sentence

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1. The car rose slowly on to the highroad, then slid swiftly away, leaving the night silent.
2. Then he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the highroad, where all traces were lost.
3. One day she saw, at a place where the highroad crossed the distant valley, a heavily laden wagon passing along.
4. Prince Andrew was somewhat refreshed by having ridden off the dusty highroad along which the troops were moving.
5. When he had come to himself he also arose, and, with the extinguished lantern in his hand, went towards the highroad.

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1  Stacks Gate, as seen from the highroad, was just a huge and gorgeous new hotel, the Coningsby Arms, standing red and white and gilt in barbarous isolation off the road.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
2  The car slipped out of the dark spinney that masked the park, on to the highroad where the colliers were trailing home.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
3  The car rose slowly on to the highroad, then slid swiftly away, leaving the night silent.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
4  When he had come to himself he also arose, and, with the extinguished lantern in his hand, went towards the highroad.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current
5  One day she saw, at a place where the highroad crossed the distant valley, a heavily laden wagon passing along.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 5 An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated
6  Then he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the highroad, where all traces were lost.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
7  When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET
8  There are grounds round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about a hundred yards from the front door.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
9  And the messenger of good fortune was none other than Mr. Frankland, who was standing, gray-whiskered and red-faced, outside the gate of his garden, which opened on to the highroad along which I travelled.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
10  The highroad on which he had come out was thronged with caleches, carriages of all sorts, and Russian and Austrian soldiers of all arms, some wounded and some not.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVIII
11  It was at the end of a village that stretched along the highroad in the midst of a young copse in which were a few fir trees.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XI
12  At Kamenka a relay of horses was to wait which would take them to the Warsaw highroad, and from there they would hasten abroad with post horses.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVI
13  Before joining the Western Army which was then, in May, encamped at Drissa, Prince Andrew visited Bald Hills which was directly on his way, being only two miles off the Smolensk highroad.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VIII
14  On the tenth of August the regiment Prince Andrew commanded was marching along the highroad past the avenue leading to Bald Hills.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V
15  Prince Andrew was somewhat refreshed by having ridden off the dusty highroad along which the troops were moving.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V
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