What is "roadway"

Usage examples of "roadway".

From their midst, ornate cast-iron pillars sprouted, acanthus leaves flowing into cantilevered struts supporting flat canopies that sheltered the roadway from the rain.

The autocar lurched to a halt, and Holmes used the momentum to leap from the seat to the roadway.

Joanna held the phone with one hand and eased the Civvy onto the roadway with the other.

At last a copeck rolled upon the ground, and the miserable creature--his mutilated arms, with their sleeves wet through and through, held out before him-- stopped perplexed in the roadway and vanished from my sight.

The roadway intersected an overgrown wall at a corbelled arch that must have been thirty feet tall when it was complete.

The thing cackled with laughter and dumped what must have been the contents of a silverware drawer out onto the roadway, for there was the clatter and clang of cutlery as the contents of the drawer fell together below.

Toward this we galloped, entering it by what appeared to be a ruined roadway leading out from the city, but only to the edge of the table land, where it ended abruptly in a flight of broad steps.

Half of this cutting formed a channel for the stream, and half, which was placed on a slightly higher level--eight feet perhaps--was devoted to the purposes of a roadway.

At first, much of the damage there suggested natural causes: an earthquake, perhaps, that had left downed buildings, fissured roadways, and fires casually gutting homes from which all occupants had fled.

As we came, one half of the wide gates were flung open, and we passed over the drawbridge and presently stood gazing up one of the most imposing, if not the most imposing, roadways in the world.

Their hobnailed boots clattered against the flinty stones of the roadway.

On either side of him rose the backward-sloping walls of the outer precinct, forming a kind of funnel down which the paved roadway led eastward from the gate itself to the junction, outside the city, of the highways from Thettit-Tonilda and Ikat Yeldashay.

Painfully, Jarry gathered up the tons of bronze shards and put them in the wheelless stagecoach and dragged it up the attic stairs to the roadway.

Nothing very ladylike about flaunting herself on the roadway to be kissed by passing strargers.

Here he was, with mystery and peril to hasten his steps, loitering at the spot where the light of home streamed out upon the roadway.