To give you a feel for how long ago this was the main beneficiaries of the macadam were the new fangled bicycle-men. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Mass Transit is As American as Apple Pie] Reference
Today we must walk the macadam highways and roads. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Diary: Have a Colonialist Thanksgiving.] Reference
Instead, I sangRiding on macadam/Stinging in my soul. From Wordnik.com. [They Never Did] Reference
Instead, I sang Riding on macadam/Stinging in my soul. From Wordnik.com. [They Never Did] Reference
Cristobal, where the macadam road from Santo Domingo ends. From Wordnik.com. [Santo Domingo A Country with a Future] Reference
The soil makes a natural macadam, which dries in a few hours. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891] Reference
E.g. pukka road, a macadam surface, cutch road, a mere track. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman In The Great Game]
On a ten-mile piece of new macadam he gave me all the gas I craved. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
The Roman causeway ran into the macadam high road from Harthborough to. From Wordnik.com. [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference
How about imbedding induction sensors beneath the concrete or macadam. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph Romm: McCain's Cruel Offshore Drilling Hoax] Reference
To the other, one could see a small macadam road with a line of parked cars. From Wordnik.com. [The Vatican Rip]
The worst roads for walking are such as are commonly called the best; that is, macadam. From Wordnik.com. [Walking-Stick Papers] Reference
Iron Works; a bed six inches thick and as hard as stone and with a surface like macadam. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
Reno is a city of beautiful residences, trees and shrubbery; asphalt and macadam streets. From Wordnik.com. [Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information] Reference
On and on the neat, strong hoofs rang their metallic click, clack along the smooth macadam. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
It is a good macadam road, made, doubtless by perfidious Albion's money, just before the war. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
The car raced along the road, crossed a macadam highway, went four blocks and pulled to a stop. From Wordnik.com. [The First One] Reference
The store windows on either side of the street cast brilliant reflections far across the macadam. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
All the other roads are covered with macadam made out of black whinstone that is as hard as iron. From Wordnik.com. ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference
But there was only the sunshine on the macadam road and the shadows of the lattice and the trees. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
The highway leading to Albany was a hard, macadam one, and he fairly flew along the level stretches. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, or, Fun and Adventures on the Road] Reference
A macadam pavement is a piece of masonry, wholly without elasticity, built for vehicles to roll over. From Wordnik.com. [Walking-Stick Papers] Reference
At a high rate of speed, however, the automobile does raise a fine sandy dust, and exposes the macadam. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
This seemed to be the best thing to do, and the two girls started from the Point toward the macadam highway. From Wordnik.com. [Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes The Quest of a Summer Vacation] Reference
The teacher burst through the bushes and waved madly to a taxi rolling slowly along the macadam below the hill. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
Luckily they were on the main road; the macadam was smooth, and at that hour there were few other vehicles about. From Wordnik.com. [Hero Come Back]
The first half-mile was over a well-kept macadam road through that part of the village which lies west of the railway. From Wordnik.com. [The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm] Reference
Pisgah National Forest of North Carolina is becoming a centre for automobile travel as it contains a fine macadam road. From Wordnik.com. [The School Book of Forestry] Reference
The big estate car swayed on the slick macadam surface of the road and cruised up and down over the many rises and bumps. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Gossip]
"Jiminy!" he exclaimed as he looked down upon the bright, reassuring play of light and shadow on the lawn and macadam below. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
Frank was grinning at her as he wrestled the Land-Rover to a stop on the slippery macadam incline running down to the water. From Wordnik.com. [Kahawa]
They left the park gravel path, now flanked on either side by leafless shrubbery, and struck out over the hard macadam of the road. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
They had opened their wide blue and purple umbrellas; these latter made huge disks of color reflected in the glass of the wet macadam. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
The road over which the tests were made was a macadam road, not particularly smooth, but might be considered as an average road surface. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
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