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- noun A
bridleway .
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Examples
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There was time to go for a quick walk along the bridlepath after lunch.
The Course Of True Love Neels, Betty 1993
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The road connecting these cities is now a comfortable highway, traversing a beautiful, undulating country, but at that time it was little more than a bridlepath; consequently the travelers were thoroughly fatigued when they reached their destination.
Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Ferdinand Gregorovius
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On Riverside Drive horseback riders were cantering down the bridlepath, returning from early outings.
Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923
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On the 22nd it was reported that, with only a handful of his followers, he had crossed the Magaliesberg range by a bridlepath and was riding southwards.
The Great Boer War Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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"If Black Donald is a mail robber, then this little bridlepath is far enough off his beat."
The Hidden Hand 1888
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Washington by the old bridlepath from Crawford's, when, climbing out of the woods and advancing upon that marvelous backbone of rock, the whole world opened upon his awed vision, and the pyramid of the summit stood up in majesty against the sky.
Their Pilgrimage Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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Washington by the old bridlepath from Crawford's, when, climbing out of the woods and advancing upon that marvelous backbone of rock, the whole world opened upon his awed vision, and the pyramid of the summit stood up in majesty against the sky.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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In a minute more, the thump of a horse's hoofs at a gallop was audible, where the bridlepath was hidden among the trees.
Blind Love Wilkie Collins 1856
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She was, she said, the youngest woman in the tribe; and her husband, Peckanaminet, was the Indian we had met in the bridlepath.
The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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She was, she said, the youngest woman in the tribe; and her husband, Peckanaminet, was the Indian we had met in the bridlepath.
Margaret Smith's Journal Part 1, from Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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