bush road
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bush road
First recorded in 1820–30
Example Sentences
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Suppose I saw a pretty girl on a bush road.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man by Ellis, Havelock
We shall start straight for the bush road into the north, if that suits you," he said, "and travel by easy stages towards Collingwood, where we shall again behold one of our inland seas.
From Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by Campbell, John
Collins Street was now as empty as a bush road.
From The Getting of Wisdom by Richardson, Henry Handel
It was a regular bush road, nearly ten miles long, made to avoid the falls of the Pigeon.
From All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways by Wood, William Charles Henry
It was just about daybreak that he put his brigade in motion and moved west by an old bush road until he struck the Ridge Road, which bears south-west from the river to Ridgeway.
From Troublous Times in Canada A History of the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870 by MacDonald, John A. (John Alexander)
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