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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king's highway

To work grossly at the trade, to forget sentiment, to think of his material and nothing else, is, for a while at least, the king’s highway of progress.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

There’s dust upon the king’s highway; which somehow or other has got into the throats of our worthy friends from Uxbridge, Denham, and Iver.

From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid

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

From The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann

Following the valley of the Severn, by Shrewsbury and Whitechurch, we crossed the great Holyhead Road, "the king's highway," from London to Holyhead.

From The Automobilist Abroad by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

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 The Children's Garland from the Best Poets by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore