Main-road Sentence Examples

They left the main road on a narrow trail consisting of two ruts.

The original main road ran to Nuceria by Mevania; a branch by Interamna and Spoletium joined it at Forum Flaminii.

This embraced portions of South Leith parish (landward) and of Duddingston parish, including the village of Restalrig and the ground lying on both sides of the main road from Edinburgh to Portobello; and also part of Cramond parish, in which is contained the village and harbour of Granton.

These last four places seem to lie on a main road leading from Cappadocia to Marash and the Syrian sites.

The ground between the hills and the marshy valley of the Danube forms a defile through which the main road from DonauwOrth led to Ulm; parallel streams divide the narrow plain into strips.

It lies on the western slope of the Chiltern Hills, close to the entrance to a narrow valley which pierces them, and forms one of the highways through them to London, carrying the railway, the Grand Junction Canal, and a main road.

The main road from Durham to Sunderland here passes through a remarkable cutting in the limestone 80 ft.

It consists of two quarters, the old town picturesquely situated on the south bank of the Carron and the new on the land between this stream and the Cowie, the two being connected by the bridge which carries the main road from the south to Aberdeen.

A few hours after his arrival, therefore, without waiting for the rearmost troops of his columns, he set the combining armies in motion for Krozingen, a village on what was then the main road between Breisach and Freiburg.

Situated on the main road from Trebizond into north-west Persia, the town has always a large caravan traffic, principally of camels, but since the improvement of communications in Russia this has declined.

It is situated on the river that bears its name on the main road between Herat and Kandahar, 160 m.

Yezd and Kerman were the first points of attack; Khorasan was afterwards entered by Samnan, or the main road from Teheran.

Once a road became a main road it could only cease to be such by order of the Local Government Board.

As already stated, the powers of the quarter sessions under the act of 1878 were transferred to the county council under the Local Government Act of 1888, and that body alone has now power to declare a road to be a main road.

A British village was situated here at the crossing of the Thames on the main road from London to south-western Britain, and the crossing was certainly one of the earliest bridged.

The district is traversed by the main road from Nagpur to the east, and also by the Bengal-Nagpur railway.

Thus Rosecrans was confined to a semicircle of low ground around Chattanooga itself, and his supplies had to make a long and difficult detour from Bridgeport, the main road being under fire from the Confederate position on Lookout and in the Wauhatchie valley adjacent.

It was situated on a branch of the Via Flaminia, which left the main road at Narnia and rejoined it at Forum Flaminii.

The truck turned off the main road and lurched down a long drive.

The mill brook exit can be seen along the footpath the old medieval Main Road from Abbey Street to Sixfields.

The main road to the far north west has been much improved over recent decades.

Our office is located on the ground floor adjacent to the main road.

The main road through the Airbus complex is in the left foreground with Rodney works to the right.

Apart from main road cycling, which is not much fun, there is a variety of cycle routes here to satisfy most tastes.

Securely gated off with total privacy and security, and sits back from the main road.

The remains of the abbey gatehouse are on the main road - which gives you an idea of the size of the outer precinct.

He too, incorrectly placed the main road car headlamps on Battlesbury Hill.

In fact it is distilled in a rather humdrum blackened building that straddles the main road south from Kirkwall.

The main road to Enniskillen was virtually impassible in winter conditions and was a major concern.

I finally managed to stop just before the main road - after about a mile - thank good ness!

You will emerge by the main road adjacent to a pedestrian crossing and covered pagoda, Netball House is on the right.

When the main road is blocked or has roadworks, the traffic is severely affected.

The only open aspect is the north side of the triangle, which looks out across a main road to Hackney Downs park.

On 7th January came a disaster on the main road southwards in western Malaya.

Back from the beach up on the main road you will find the excellent taverna Faros.

Lobau's men were gradually overpowered and forced back into Plancenoit, the village was stormed, and the Prussian round shot reached the main road.

The principal towns are Konakry the capital, Boke, on the Rio Nunez, Dubreka, on the coast, a little north of Konakry, Benty, on the Melakori, Timbo and Labe, the chief towns of Futa Jallon, Heremakono and Kindia, on the main road to the Niger, Kurussa and Siguiri, on a navigable stretch of that river, and Bissandugu, formerly Samory's capital, an important military station east of the Niger.

Towards evening he told his men to ride home by the main road while he went by another way that was somewhat longer.

Soon they came into the main road where a number of the king's men were waiting.

They were lined up as far as the eye could see on the Apian Way, the main road through Rome, as a warning to other slaves who might consider rebellion.

Bald Hills, Prince Nicholas Bolkonski's estate, lay forty miles east from Smolensk and two miles from the main road to Moscow.

Our drive back to the main road was punctuated by several stops.

Rebated oils are generally higher in pollutants than the main road fuels, yet bear a much lower rate of duty.

The Volunteer Fire Station, consists of a concrete slab sectional garage set back off the main road running through the town.

A side street, ducking off the main road by the tube station quaintly cobbled, dingy.

A long stretch of pure white sand is backed by dunes that provide shelter from the noise of the main road.

The beach beyond the boat shelters has beautiful clear water but is too near the main road for anyone seeking total tranquility.

Access by unmade farm track, approx a quarter of a mile from main road through village.

Turn left down the drive to some houses and then zigzag back down the path to the main road.

Ala Malama Avenue is the town's main road where you can shop in many fine gift stores and boutiques.

The neighbors couldn't see into any of their windows, and they were far enough off the main road that the only traffic would be people coming to see them.

This time he followed the main road for a while before dipping off onto a well used trail.

However, unlike the highway, the snow here had not yet melted and Dean was forced to return to the main road at the first opportunity to cross back over the river.

She hugged herself and treaded to the side of the main road down a small hill to the barracks housing the feds.

A military transport rolled from the main road leading out of the forest a few hundred meters away towards the town.

She watched from the bay window as he left a trail of dust to the main road.

Just keep to your right on the main road and you'll get to the highway just fine.

The main road system, which dates from 1828, previous to which there were only tracks, is good, and the roads well engineered; many of them are traversed daily by post vehicles.

A portion of the main road leading from the Dipylon to the Agora was discovered.

The excavations revealed a main road of surprisingly narrow dimensions winding up from the Agora to the Acropolis.