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But I appeal to my own contemporaries, who have known wheel-road, bridle-way, and footpath, for thirty years, whether they do not, every one of them, remember Meg Dods — or somebody very like her.

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

Castle, beheld, (for it was a moon-light night,) a female form slowly sauntering about the bridle-way in which he was riding, and uttering heavy moans and sobs.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 560, August 4, 1832 Various

There was one, a bridle-way from a town about sixteen miles distant, which, climbing the hills almost at its outset, swept along the whole range, about midway between the summit and the valley.

The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various

The distance for a horseman was somewhat greater, seeing that there was not as yet any bridle-way through Crutchley Wood.

Orley Farm Anthony Trollope 1848

Willingham, down the old bridle-way from Willingham ploughed field, -- every village there, and in the isle likewise, had and has still its "field," or ancient clearing of ploughed land, -- and then to try that terrible half-mile, with the courage and wit of a general to whom human lives were as those of the gnats under the hedge.

Hereward, the Last of the English Charles Kingsley 1847

So all his host camped themselves in Willingham field, by the old earthwork which men now call Belsar's Hills; and down the bridle-way poured countless men, bearing timber and fagots cut from all the hills, that they might bridge the black half-mile.

Hereward, the Last of the English Charles Kingsley 1847

We passed by Soto Luino, and shaping our course through a wild but picturesque country, we found ourselves about nightfall at the foot of a steep hill, up which led a narrow bridle-way, amidst a grove of lofty trees.

The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842

At a Rath, which here capped an eminence of the road, a narrow bridle-way diverged to the right, and after a gradual ascent for about a mile and a half, was lost upon a rough upland, that might be almost termed a moor.

The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

To this there were two modes of access: one by a paved bridle-way, or boreen, that ran up directly before the door -- the other by a green lane, that diverged from the boreen about a furlong below the house.

The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

But I appeal to my own contemporaries, who have known wheel-road, bridle-way, and footpath, for thirty years, whether they do not, every one of them, remember Meg Dods -- or somebody very like her.

St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801