Sentence examples for cobbled roads from inspiring English sources
Uttering the immortal words "Heren vertrekt!" (Gentlemen, off you go!) the 37 riders of the first Tour of Flanders set off to cover the 324km on the poorly surfaced cobbled roads that came to characterise the race.
We are the only inhabitants of this seemingly endless expanse of smooth columns, cobbled roads, temples and theatres; a city in the sand left to time.
Thanks to the tireless work of "les amis de Paris-Roubaix", who jokingly refer to themselves as "les forcats du pavés" ("the convicts of the cobbles") – each year the race rolls out over the fields of Northern France on cobbled roads that date back to Napoleon.
Further back there's cobbled roads with white farm gates.
Cobbled roads radiate from the plaza and are pimpled with taco stands, fruit vendors, art galleries, surf shops — and a growing number of real estate offices.
The old-new capital was assuming its post-Cold War shape, but the hinterland in the old East was still a different universe, a time-warp of cobbled roads and crooked houses that might have come from the Brothers Grimm.
In a peaceful spa destination with one main cobbled road, a Catholic church as its epicentre and 7,000 inhabitants, Oberstaufen offers pretty basic après-ski: traditional wooden counters serving local gentian schnapps and beer, multicoloured disco lights and fortysomethings doing the foxtrot to beat-enhanced Bavarian folksongs – but it's no less fun for that.
I followed the trail beside a dry, cobbled roadbed of a creek, with an immense number of patiently smoothed rocks appearing from nowhere like a seam in the forest.
Donations in his name can be made to: Noble Horizons, 17 Cobble Road, Salisbury, CT 06068, Supplemental Fund.
Contributions in her memory may be sent to the New York Society Library, 53 E. 79 St., NY 10021; Noble Horizons, 17 Cobble Road, Salisbury, CT 06068; or the Friends of the Smith College Library, Smith College, Northampton, MA. 01063.
Weantinoge Heritage, the state's largest land trust at 4,439 acres in 13 towns, has managed to preserve one of Kent's most scenic parcels on Cobble Road because of a group of friends who worked together.
