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Meanings of green lanes in English

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Usage of green lanes in English
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An hour's walk through green lanes brought him to M. Martin's estate.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867 / A Magazin...
2
An hour's walk through green lanes brought him to M. Cherbonueau's estate.
A Struggle For Life
3
The green lanes should be open to vehicles carrying any kind of goods.
Reuters
4
The walk to the hill is along green lanes and over quiet fields.
James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
5
I am hungry for the green lanes of England. He sighed.
Captain Blood
6
No; only narrow green lanes, which led straight into fairyland.
The Farringdons
7
We are riding in the green lanes around the fields of Penshurst, in Kent.
The Lady of the Rivers
8
And shall we take the longest but prettiest road, that by the green lanes?
Our Village
9
She would wander with him through the green lanes and rural scenes of the vicinity.
The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
10
Said he didn't want any green lanes in his.
The Shuttle
11
The pairs then separated; one couple turning into green lanes, the other dipping to blue hills.
Sandra Belloni (originally Emilia in England) — Complete
12
The little Wolseley Ten wound through the green lanes and presently mounted a pine fringed slope.
Men of Affairs
13
In September the king's messenger rides down the green lanes and up to our front gates.
The Lady of the Rivers
14
Everything now was to be green lanes, majestic trees, old mansions, venerable castles, and picturesque scenery.
James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
15
But at that she only cried the more, and they went away bickering into the green lanes.
Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories
16
They talked of books, flowers, music, mountain scenery, and the green lanes of "Merry England."
St. Elmo
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