towing path
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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When the country was interesting we would go very slowly, but if the landscape was dreary, the horses would trot quickly along the towing path.
From Nobody's Boy Sans Famille by Crewe-Jones, Florence
I got to my boat, tipped a fellow on the towing path to take it back and pay for it—why haven't the police got hold of him?—and ran down to the bridge over the weir.
From The Thousandth Woman by Hornung, Ernest W.
You hear people quarrelling in boats, in the hotels, as they walk along the towing path.
From Secret Places of the Heart by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
The towing path had a thin bed of clay under the gravel, and its outer edge was protected by an iron railing.
From The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain by Smiles, Samuel
The Ray flickered up and down the towing path, licking off the people who ran this way and that, and came down to the water's edge not fifty yards from where I stood.
From The War of the Worlds by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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