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1 Unluckily, there were roads all about Rockville; foot roads, and high roads and bridle roads.
2 There were roads between them, but no conveyances.
3 Everywhere there were roads and bridges.
4 There were roads hard along the coast, but poor straggling things, marked as little more than cart paths.
5 His little red dot moved to a position along one of the lines where he had indicated there were roads .
6 The banks were generally low and marshy, making the streams difficult to approach except where there were roads and bridges.
7 There were roads to be made, and forests to be cleared away, and many other such labors to be performed.
8 The chaparral before us was impenetrable except where there were roads or trails, with occasionally clear or bare spots of small dimensions.
9 Though there were roads leading up into the trashlands, there were none that led onward, along the river, where I wanted to go.
10 There were roads in either direction, but Irish Bend was the way to Franklin, and to Franklin Grover was under orders to go.
11 The early railroads, as the word implies, were roads made of wooden rails, or railed roads, over which heavy loads were drawn by horses.
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