tow-paths

Nature waited a while and then took their abandoned canals to grow rushes and water-lilies; and she covered the tow-paths with green and put tangles of undergrowth along; and then she gave it all to the birds and the frogs and the turtles.

Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins

It was a goodly land of peaceful villages tucked away mid age-old trees, of garrulous, kindly folks and covered bridges, of long, lazy canals with grassy banks banding each shore of the rippling river, of tow-paths padded by the feet of bargemen and bell-hung mules and lock-tenders.

Diane of the Green Van Leona Dalrymple

As may be imagined, navigation on these stretches of the river is extremely perilous, and an ascent of the Upper Yangtze takes several months to perform since the boats must be hauled over the numerous rapids by men, called professionally "trackers," whose work is so strenuous that they are bent nearly double as they crawl along the tow-paths made against the cliffs.

Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese 1921

= Their direction, width and depth; condition of tow-paths; locks and means of protecting or destroying them.

Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition 1906

Note: [2.5] in the Flowery Kingdom, seems the Mississippi in parts, where, amply flowing between low, vine-tangled banks, flat as tow-paths, it bears the huge toppling steamers, bedizened and lacquered within like imperial junks.

The Confidence-Man 1857

The great ship-canal of Ving-King-Ching, in the Flowery Kingdom, seems the Mississippi in parts, where, amply flowing between low, vine-tangled banks, flat as tow-paths, it bears the huge toppling steamers, bedizened and lacquered within like imperial junks.

The Confidence-Man Herman Melville 1855

The policy envisages that all State-owned land, including tow-paths, Coillte estates and former railway lines, be available for cycling.

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