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  • As he walked along the wood-path, this peer of France, this statesman, wept as young men weep; he wept his last tears.

    A Start in Life 2007

  • He listens: No - yes: once more the dead leaves, lightly crushed, rustle on the wood-path.

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • But, before he could open his lips, a third person turned from the wood-path on to the bridge, making it tremble with his steps — a jaunty cavalry officer, with a trim moustache and bright dancing eyes.

    Maurice Guest 2003

  • They crossed the bridge, and joined the wood-path.

    Maurice Guest 2003

  • These thoughts so engaged her that she fell into a gait hardly likely to carry her to church before the sermon, and at length, having passed from the gardens to the wood-path beyond, so far forgot her intention as to sink into a rustic seat at a bend of the walk.

    The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

  • These thoughts so engaged her that she fell into a gait hardly likely to carry her to church before the sermon, and at length, having passed from the gardens to the wood-path beyond, so far forgot her intention as to sink into a rustic seat at a bend of the walk.

    The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

  • These thoughts so engaged her that she fell into a gait hardly likely to carry her to church before the sermon, and at length, having passed from the gardens to the wood-path beyond, so far forgot her intention as to sink into a rustic seat at a bend of the walk.

    The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

  • As they crossed the railroad and entered the narrow wood-path on the other side, the girls fell into single file and walked on steadily, talking gaily.

    Glenloch Girls Grace M. Remick

  • Lund, who had misgivings as to his ability to give Creamer "a Roland for his Oliver," rose at once, and Creamer acceding more reluctantly, the four set off, through a narrow wood-path, to a cleared field near the western extremity of the island.

    Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

  • In short, the impression was indefinable; and, after gazing and musing a good while, I retraced my steps through the Irish hamlet, and plodded on along a wood-path.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various

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