king's highway

American  

Or King's highway,

noun

British.

1. a highway built by the national government.

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king's highway British  

noun

1. (in Britain, esp when the sovereign is male) any public road or right of way

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Example Sentences

I will go to ruin on the king's highway.

From The Undying Past by Sudermann, Hermann

Sakhī:         The citizens are waking on the king's highway, Rays of the moon light up the dome of earth: No peace in new-born love,— I am amazed to see you.

From Vidy?pati: Bang?ya pad?bali; songs of the love of R?dh? and Krishna by Vidy?pati Th?kura

There was an old woman, as I've heard tell, She went to market her eggs for to sell; She went to market all on a market-day, And she fell asleep on the king's highway.

From Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes by Clippinger, Erle Elsworth

We left these people, while making this digression, on the king's highway severing forever the strong ties that bound them to the land and the people of their birth.

From Some Pioneers and Pilgrims on the Prairies of Dakota Or, From the ox team to the aeroplane by Reese, H. B.

The king's highway was very beautiful with its wild scenery.

From A Child of the Sea; and Life Among the Mormons by Williams, Elizabeth Whitney