road-making

If there were difficulties in road-making, the campaign would accomplish little else.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

If there were difficulties in road-making, the campaign would accomplish little else.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

If there were difficulties in road-making, the campaign would accomplish little else.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

If there were difficulties in road-making, the campaign would accomplish little else.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

See Zhob District Gazetteer, pp. 165 – 6, for Ghalzi Pashtun nomads as excavators of qanats or underground irrigation channels, and Balland, p. 209 (footnote), quoting another source about the class of nomads who entered the subcontinent for seasonal labor opportunities such as "stone-breaking, road-making, clearing jungle (butimari), and any sort of job where energy and strength are more necessary than professional skills."

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

Is it road-making business that has brought you out here today in such wild spirits?

Little Eyolf 2008

Is it road-making business that has brought you out here today in such wild spirits?

Little Eyolf 2008

They will advance by squads in front of the waggons so that if there is any road-making to be done you may set to work at once, and in case of need I may know where to get the men I want.

Cyropaedia 2007

But the tendency to road-making was regarded by the Pathans with profound distaste.

Archive 2004-10-31 Laban 2004

But the tendency to road-making was regarded by the Pathans with profound distaste.

October 31, 2004 Laban 2004