At the lowest computation, the mules would do four or five times as much work if they were set to draw any kind of cart -- however rough -- on a carriageable road. From Wordnik.com. [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference
Tubbernacul in tipherairy, sons, travel — lers in company and their carriageable tochters, tanks tight anne thynne for her contractations tugowards his personeel. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
The road was more like a stone-quarry than a carriageable public highway, so encumbered was it with granite fragments, heaped ready for top-dressing and finishing; and the bridge led on to a raised embankment, coming to a sudden fissure, where the old coach-road crossed it. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
You always see him with his children and his wife; he drives her and her baby up and down along the only carriageable road of. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)] Reference
Other cities, indeed, contain more works of carriageable art, but none contain so much of the glorious local art, and of the springs and sources of art, which can by no means be made subjects of package or porterage, nor, I grieve to say, of salvage. From Wordnik.com. [A Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market)] Reference
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