horse-road

In plain language, he approached so near the bank of a little rivulet, which in that place passed betwixt the footpath and the horse-road, that he lost his footing, and fell into the channel of the streamlet from a height of three or four feet.

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

Tyrrel turned away from the man, and hastily left the hotel — not, however, by the road which led to the Aultoun, but by a footpath among the natural copsewood, which, following the course of the brook, intersected the usual horse-road to Shaws – Castle, the seat of Mr. Mowbray, at a romantic spot called the Buck-stane.

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

Just as the old Hoja went by, and the placid little donkey followed at his heels, the Circassian stepped into the horse-road, gave the weapon a braggadocio swing, and at a single blow divided the head of the poor little ass from the body as cleanly as any dandy swordsman of the Guards will sever a hanging sheep.

The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography David Christie Murray

_ Hard by -- just where the horse-road sinks into a hollow dell, and over-spreading branches almost choke the pass, there we may rush upon the wretched youth securely, and there our poniards --

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1

It was opened as far as Ellicott's Mills as a horse-road, the idlers and beauties of Baltimore participating in the excursion as a novel jest.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various

He told me that the horse-road lay on the other side of the hill, and throwing his drum on his back, mounted up the rocks where, indeed, no horse could follow him, leaving me to admire his agility, and trace out a road for myself.

Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, 1795-7 1893

And one day they saw three knights coming along the horse-road on the borders of the forest.

The Mabinogion Vol. 1 (of 3) Owen Morgan Edwards 1889

To avoid detail, let us come to the old Roman horse-road over the Alps. The time between the shepherd's path and the Roman road is probably short in comparison with that between the mere chamois track and the first thing that can be called a path of men.

Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals Samuel Butler 1868

There is now a very good horse-road to the top, and ladies and gentlemen can with ease ascend the peak.

Mountain Scenery. The Scenery of the Mountains of Western North Carolina and Northwestern South Carolina. Henry E. Colton 1859

And one day they saw three knights coming along the horse-road on the borders of the forest.

The Mabinogion Anonymous 1853