Noun : the highroad to success. From Dictionary.com.
And then they were silent, and the tramping of the horses 'feet along the highroad was the only sound to be heard. From Wordnik.com. [Voskresenie. English] Reference
Take the "highroad" Crist, there are more ways to skin a cat, become an Independent and laugh all the way. From Wordnik.com. [National Republicans preparing to back Rubio] Reference
And then they were silent, and the tramping of the horses’ feet along the highroad was the only sound to be heard. From Wordnik.com. [Resurrection] Reference
She feels now that she is on the highroad to success. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession] Reference
The Japanese were apparently on the highroad to victory. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
The last scene takes place on the highroad leading to Havre. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Outside her garden, in front of the house, the highroad ran. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
Flying northward on the great highroad leading out from Paris to. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference
"Lost! why, you're not more'n half a dozen yards off the highroad.". From Wordnik.com. [Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls] Reference
They had turned off the highroad now and were in the fields following. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
Winchester rifles, burst from the cover of bushes that lined the highroad. From Wordnik.com. [When Dreams Come True] Reference
On the other side of this she came into a lane which led out on a highroad. From Wordnik.com. [Littlebourne Lock] Reference
The regiment broke into a trot along the highroad, after leaving the village. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
St. Michel, we passed ruined Even and Essey and took the highroad leading south. From Wordnik.com. [The Greater Love] Reference
Having received no answer to his inquiry the child pushed past her to the highroad. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
We came across them everywhere -- in the fields and in the gutters of the highroad. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
She was used to wandering about the fields by herself, and was less timid there than on the highroad. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
The field-path came out on this highroad, down which she had to walk a few hundred yards to her own gate. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
Then came more screeches, and a shell exploded over the highroad, knocking a gunner lifeless from his carriage. From Wordnik.com. [The Brigade Commander] Reference
The military advice being practically a command, we took the highroad to Sampáloc on our way back to the city. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
He drove slowly down the drive, out into the highroad and, turning westward, sped away into the misty distance. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
Ten days 'march on the highroad going and returning, and ten days in the camp at Cercottes in the forest of Orleans. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
On a sudden impulse he turned aside from the highroad and took the path by the river through the fields to his own lands. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
I look back upon my old life as an impression received in the dawn, and already it seems but a level highroad on a gray day. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Dakota Divorcee] Reference
Without so much as another glance at the little figure in the window, he ran across the lawn and up the lane to the highroad. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
Here and there on the mountain side and along the highroad he noticed the massed pink and white clusters of the sheep laurel. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
We got out on the highroad at last; and as we jogged home in the soft, warm rain, I took the opportunity of giving a little advice. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
We have his chants and his anthems and plainsongs to remind us of the one essential, of how lofty a singer passed down our highroad. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
Fagged, at length, and soaked with rain, I left the slough, and gaining the highroad, pressed towards the city to meet the cavalcade. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
It came from the landward-looking or highroad side of the house -- about two points on the starboard bow, as old Crump would have said. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
Despite the rain and wind he mounted, and was soon upon the highroad with his escort, having put his horse to a gallop to avoid pursuit. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The two men were racing down the lane toward the muddy highroad, paying little attention to their steps or to the last of the rainstorm. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace] Reference
The turnpike or the highroad served its purpose well enough in coaching days as the most direct and quickest way between important towns. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
"They'll be round us like collies round a marrow bane," said Ronny, and as he spoke there was a shout from the highroad, and Dan laughed. From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
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