"Rutty" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... farther south, and save a good three miles of the road. I had learned of this short cut in the course of my fishing expeditions with Roger; it was the nearest way to the Borle Brook, where our angling had ever the best success—a narrow track striking off to the right, very rutty and rough, bordered by hedges, ...
— Humphrey Bold - A Story of the Times of Benbow • Herbert Strang
... made its way up a rutty, corkscrew lane. They reached the house, and the door opened, and a tall, unpleasant-looking woman ...
— The Young Railroaders - Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity • Francis Lovell Coombs
... its rutty, irritating surface, seemed endless. We had started late, according to our promise, and having lost more than an hour on the "short cut," grey wings of twilight began at last to fold in the landscape. It was long since we had passed a village; Manzanares was not ...
— The Car of Destiny • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... seem, it cannot be wondered at. A single muddy road runs through Fuzby. Except along this road—muddy and rutty in winter, dusty and rutty in summer—no walk is to be had. The fields are all more or less impassable with ditches and bogs. Kenrick had christened it "The Dreary Swamp." Nothing in the shape of a view is to be found anywhere, ...
— St. Winifred's - The World of School • Frederic W. Farrar
... cart on a loose stony road awoke me; and I found that we were mounting a steep hill, where the road was a rutty by- road through a field. And so, by fragments of an ancient terrace, and by some rugged outbuildings that had once been fortified, and passing under a ruined gateway we came to the old farm-house in the thick stone wall outside the old quadrangle of Hoghton Towers: ...
— George Silverman's Explanation • Charles Dickens
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