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Перевод: wayside
[прилагательное] придорожный; [существительное] обочина ; придорожная полоса; полоса отчуждения
Тезаурус:
- The Palace Girls, needless to say, were hungry to start with; nevertheless they had to exist for seventeen long hours on bananas and chocolate picked up at wayside stations.
- Fiddler's Elbow, a large pub by the wayside, was advertised by a giant wooden carving of a fiddle.
- The ley starts from a wayside cross next to a crossroads, goes through Saintbury Church, noted for its pagan survivals, through a Bronze Age round barrow, a Neolithic long barrow sited in the middle of an Iron Age fort, through a Saxon pagan cemetery, and an eighteenth-century beacon tower, ending at an ancient farmstead, Seven Wells - which was the subject of a fictional book on witchcraft by Hugh Ross Williamson entitled The Silver Bowl .
- Several would-be robot makers fell by the wayside, among them Remek of Milton Keynes.
- Very few of the stations on what was built of the Cape to Cairo railway were anything more than small wayside halts.
- Churchyard and wayside crosses are often the result of a similar process.
- Icicles the size of stalactites hung from the eaves of wayside stations.
- Many legends are attached to natural features in the landscape, such as prominent hills, rocks and springs; others to some of the most ancient surviving artificial structures such as standing stones, stone circles and barrows, churches and wayside crosses.
- The main road is no less attractive and much quicker, passing the residence of Gate, a Victorian house built in mock Tudor style, and many delectable wayside cottages before crossing the Dee and, after being joined by a road from Barbondale near the ancient settlement of Gawthrop, heads directly into Dent Town.
- Many letters from friends have gone by the wayside but I have kept those from Emily Carr.
- A row of candles stood by the wayside.
- "ALASTAIR MORTON is terrific at crisis management, but he is no good when it comes to running a settled organisation," says one of those who has been left, somewhat bruised, along the wayside of Mr Morton's whirlwind career.
- The spread of motoring caused a revival of interest in the tradition of wayside coaching inns, since these were rediscovered as charming nostalgic examples of bygone days, and the charm of the wayside inn was celebrated in the verses of Hilaire Belloc and Rupert Brooke.
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