"Roadside" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "you teach one so much! One passes through life too often with one's eyes closed, one finds the great things in strange places, the rarest flowers even by the roadside. Drink your wine, press my fingers—like that. See, it is the chef d'orchestre who approaches. You shall sing—sing ...
— The Mischief Maker • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... commented, as he stopped for a moment to brush the dust from his shoes in the tall grass by the roadside. ...
— The Early Bird - A Business Man's Love Story • George Randolph Chester
... who cherished Noble longings for the strife, By the roadside fell and perished, Weary with ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
... province of Kai. (1) One evening, as he was traveling through the mountains of that province, darkness overcame him in a very lonesome district, leagues away from any village. So he resigned himself to pass the night under the stars; and having found a suitable grassy spot, by the roadside, he lay down there, and prepared to sleep. He had always welcomed discomfort; and even a bare rock was for him a good bed, when nothing better could be found, and the root of a pine-tree an excellent pillow. His body was iron; and he never troubled himself about dews ...
— Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things • Lafcadio Hearn
... adventures or difficulties. Even my night's lodging gave me no trouble; for when it was growing dark, and I felt too tired to run any farther, I espied a heap of straw thrown out by the stable-door of a roadside inn, and I soon scratched and smoothed it into as comfortable a bed as dog need wish. By break of day I was on my travels again; and being now near my native village, in a road of which I knew every step, I had no further ...
— Cat and Dog - Memoirs of Puss and the Captain • Julia Charlotte Maitland
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