"Tollgate" Quotes from Famous Books
... Once or twice she delighted him by faintly smiling a response to his speeches. They had passed the last of the straggling houses, and the turnpike stretched before them, a white ribbon winding through the green meadow-land. They had to wait while a sleepy tollgate-keeper lifted his wooden bar, and straining their ears, they could just catch the faint, ... — Southern Lights and Shadows • Edited by William Dean Howells & Henry Mills Alden |