bush road
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bush road
First recorded in 1820–30
Example Sentences
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On the bush road the going was good—now and then a small drift, but nothing alarming anywhere.
From Over Prairie Trails by Frederick Philip Grove
Built as a bush road by Simcoe in 1794.
From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various
Suppose I saw a pretty girl on a bush road.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man by Havelock Ellis
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 John Campbell
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 John A. (John Alexander) MacDonald
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