roadmenders

The hedgerows were full of elderflower and wild garlic, and I was pleased the roadmenders had managed to do their work without tearing up any greenery.

Archive 2009-07-01 Gordie 2009

The hedgerows were full of elderflower and wild garlic, and I was pleased the roadmenders had managed to do their work without tearing up any greenery.

Endings and Beginnings Gordie 2009

The trawl included clergymen, gamekeepers, poachers, dentists and roadmenders.

How Britain Planned to "Resist" A German Occupation Jan 2009

Many, many years it is now since we were roadmenders together,

Under the Autumn Star 2003

"To cut the telephone, attack the post at the house of the roadmenders, take it, and fall back on the bridge."

For Whom The Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1940

"To cut the telephone, attack the post at the house of the roadmenders, take it, and fall back on the bridge."

For Whom The Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1940

This was a sort of little bay or inlet where until quite recently a heap of stones used by roadmenders had lain, and into this I marched, never once altering my pace.

The Green Eyes of Bâst Sax Rohmer 1921

On that lonely highway travellers were about as rare as roadmenders, and what caught their eye was a farmer's gig driven by a thick-set elderly man with a woollen comforter round his neck.

Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907

Many, many years it is now since we were roadmenders together, Grindhusen and I; we were youngsters then, and danced along the roads in the sorriest of shoes, and ate what we could get as long as we had money enough for that.

Wanderers Knut Hamsun 1905

As for Flandrin's son, he's succeeded in getting himself attached to the roadmenders.

Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904