(A shunpike is not a person but a free road that parallels a toll road.).    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1] Reference

Hurrying to a livery-stable, he hired a horse and buggy and a lantern, and drove to the shunpike.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Captain's Toll-Gate] Reference

He did not for a moment think she might return by the shunpike, for that was a rough road, not fit for a bicycle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Captain's Toll-Gate] Reference

He wandered about so long and asked so many questions that it was getting dark when he suddenly thought of the shunpike.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Captain's Toll-Gate] Reference

But since Captain Asher had lived at the toll-gate it was remarked that the shunpike was not used as much as in former times.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Captain's Toll-Gate] Reference

She seemed to have something on her mind, and presently she proposed to Mr. Morris that he should take the shunpike for a change.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Captain's Toll-Gate] Reference

"If you can only manage that that woman takes the shunpike whenever she drives this way, I shall be perfectly satisfied with everything just as it is.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Captain's Toll-Gate] Reference

It would be impossible for the girl who had talked so sweetly, so earnestly, so straight from her heart, when he had met her on the shunpike, to marry such a mountebank as this fellow, generous as he might be with that which could never belong to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Captain's Toll-Gate] Reference

There was a road which branched off from the turnpike, about a mile from the town, and which, after some windings, entered the pike again beyond the toll-gate, and although this road was not always in very good condition, it had seen a good deal of travel, which, in time, gave it the name of the shunpike.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Captain's Toll-Gate] Reference

A girl on a bicycle; and thus it was that he passed the entrance to the shunpike without noticing that a bicycle track turned into it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Captain's Toll-Gate] Reference

When he started so early for town I thought he might be intendin 'to look for her, and yet be in time for the Ports' supper, but she didn't come back this way at all, and I expect she went home by the shunpike. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Captain's Toll-Gate] Reference

Suddenly she remembered the shunpike.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Captain's Toll-Gate] Reference