towing path
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Suave est, it's what I'm partial to, mari mango, in the last reach, terra, from the towing path, alterius magnum spectare laborem, to witness the tortures of you wretched beggars in the boat.
From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas
There was a path of rocky boulders, uneven and somewhat primitive, such a towing path being always found beside the rapids, as the oarsmen have to get out and tow at all such places.
From Through Finland in Carts by Alec-Tweedie, Mrs. (Ethel)
From our windows looking across the Thames between the trees on the towing path we had a wide view of the river with the chimneys of the factories on the opposite bank.
From The Stretton Street Affair by Le Queux, William
I am respected for my activity, inasmuch as I jump from the boat to the towing path, and walk five or six miles before breakfast, keeping up with the horses all the time.”
From My Father as I Recall Him by Dickens, Mamie
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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