These days you're lucky to see celebrity concrete — a curb and the lip of a driveway, ending at a towering gate.
Long farmhouse driveways ended in crates set up to hold honor-system eggs ("$1.50 dozen").
It's a comfortable place, with a driveway that ends next to a backyard lawn fenced in for Ms. Krauss's two dogs, middle-size mutts named Terry and Tom.
A tree in our next-door neighbor's yard had fallen into our driveway, the ends of its topmost branches resting against the side of our house — a near miss.
The family's main house, which dates from the early 1910s and sits on top of a small hill, is reached by a long private driveway that ends under a porte-cochère.
The country French chateau is reached by a winding driveway that ends at a cobblestone motor court.
When he opened the trunk, an inch of the Atlantic was sloshing around, but when he checked the headlights they were dry, which told him that the car had been parked on an angle in the driveway, rear end downward.
Finally, Phil's red pickup truck turned into the driveway, abruptly ending the exchange.
What you don't see is when I pull into my driveway at the end of the night after my long shift has ended.
She and my father pulled into their driveway at the end of the trip and spotted my grandmother sitting on the porch with my brother, despite the fact that it was 32 degrees out and snowing.
Its driveway would have ended in a loop on the ocean side, giving the view away from the start and then turning visitors away from it; the house would have had a deck, but otherwise would have insulated itself from the elements.
