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- noun Alternative form of
bridle path .
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Examples
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The loch on the Rooirand is stocked with Lochleven trout, and we have made a bridle-path up to it in a gully east of the one you climbed.
Prester John 2005
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When I write of a road I mean a bridle-path from four to eight feet wide, kuruma roads being specified as such.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004
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She stumbled across a bridle-path that went in the right direction, and turned down it; her rose-wreath and garland were gone, and her hair was down all one side.
Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004
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We had time to note again in the Paseo Castellana, which is the fashionable drive, that it consists of four rows of acacias and tamarisks and a stretch of lawn, with seats beside it; the rest is bare grasslessness, with a bridle-path on one side and a tram-line on the other.
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Suddenly, as if it had come up out of the ground, I perceived a tram-car keeping abreast of the riding and walking and driving, and through all I was agreeably aware of files of peasants bestriding their homing donkeys on the bridle-path next the tram.
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The dairyman hastily untied his mare from the row of other horses, mounted, and descended to a bridle-path which would take him obliquely into the London road a mile or so ahead.
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The bridle-path, running up the left bank of an ugly rocky torrent, the Wady Zurayb, presently reaches a plateau undulating in low rises.
The Land of Midian 2003
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I had already turned from the main road of general desires and had ventured along the bridle-path of a particular desire; I should have had — in order to wish for a different assignation — to retrace my steps too far before rejoining the main road and taking another path.
The Guermantes Way 2003
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People your mountains with a daring and resourceful race, who possess an intimate knowledge of every track and bridle-path, who operate in small bands, travel light, and move rapidly.
The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955
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They followed the bridle-path, and then, neatly pushed into a clearing, they saw a small horse-box!
The Mystery of Holly Lane Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1953
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