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Meanings of common road in English

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Usage of common road in English
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The rampart is the common road for carriages of all kinds.
Travels through France and Italy
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The park is traversed by a common road between two high hedges-notfrom necessity.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
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The scientists lay down in the dust of the common road and wailed and gibbered.
Revolution, and Other Essays
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You must have fools out of the common road.
The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volume...
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Keep yourselves in the common road; it is not good to be so subtle and cunning.
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete
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Bound by their own acts, good and bad, all have to travel by this common road.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
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Strange that all tempers should have a common object, and never a common road to it!
The Disowned — Volume 06
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With us the government owns and repairs the track, as you do the track of any common road.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867 / A Magazin...
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Here we waited full two hours for the mules, which travelled with the servants by the common road.
Travels through France and Italy
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It is, indeed, somewhat out of the common road; however, be assured it is the result of most mature deliberation.
The History of John Bull
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I tread the common road into the great darkness, without any thought of fear, and with very much of hope.
Life of John Sterling
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The path they had to tread was still the common road into the great darkness, as solitary and unknown as before.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Rut...
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The common road to Kvaerk made a large circuit around the forest, and reached the valley far up at its northern end.
Tales from Two Hemispheres
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The whole party knew the roads well, and about daybreak reached the point for which they had aimed,-thecommon road leading from York.
Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 04 (of 15), English
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The greatest weight we ever drew on the common road, at a rate of from five to six miles an hour, was eleven tons.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1...
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Like the peasant in the story, the man of effrontery is always wandering far from the common road, the tranquil peace of which he despises.
Poise: How to Attain It
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