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Meanings of great highway in English

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Usage of great highway in English
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The river was the great highway; no, there was no solitude there.
The House of Walderne / A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in...
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This modern Pompeii used to be the stumbling-block on the great highway.
Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the ...
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The Mediterranean was the great highway of the world's journeying and traffic.
Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
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There was the great highway where his real journey was to start.
The Soldier of the Valley
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Since time immemorial, the Volga has been a great highway of trade.
The Story of Russia
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The coffee-stall had disappeared; the traffic of the great highway was growing uproarious.
New Grub Street
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Once more in the Atlantic, the great highway and thoroughfare of civilized nations.
The World of Waters, Or, A Peaceful Progress O'er the Unpathed S...
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The great highway on which thoughts and things travel are the high seas.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, ...
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Before my mind was spread the ribbon of the great highway.
Prester John
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As the great highway to India, Egypt is the most interesting country to the English.
The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, And Explorations of...
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But the water is the great highway between nations, the true element for the discoverer.
History of the Conquest of Peru
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He must of course pass through Palestine, the great highway between Egypt and the East.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02: Jewish Heroes and Prophets
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This was the great highway of trade and travel.
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 4
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A waif that had fallen by the great highway without a word, without a sign.
The Sowers
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The invaluable passport carried him through the fortifications, and along the great highway into the country.
The Hosts of the Air
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There no doubt a road left the great highway for the impregnable city of the marshes.
Ravenna, a Study
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