Sentence examples for wagon traffic from inspiring English sources

In the second century A.D., wagon traffic "sufficient to wake the dead" ruined the Roman poet Juvenal's ability to rest between Satires.

The story he tells is a long one -- the Santa Fe Trail was actively employed for commercial and emigrant wagon traffic for nearly six decades, beginning in 1822 -- but in Dary's telling it never lags or wants for larger-than-life personalities.

It was a 20 feet, steel truss bridge that had one set of tracks and two lanes for wagon traffic.

But Hill's men were in a strong defensive position, atop a gradual ridge, in a sunken road worn down by years of wagon traffic, which formed a natural trench.

In mainland Europe wagonload and wagon block traffic remains a significant although threatened element of the railway's portfolio of service options.

According to Kipsiro, a cursory investigation of the female runners' allegations was carried out by the UAF and local police, but ranks were closed, wagons circled, traffic waved on.

"Every fifth or sixth block, there was a surprise," said Franklin Speyer, an executive vice president at Cushman, as he navigated his Mercedes station wagon through Midtown traffic on one recent excursion.

All wagons for public traffic had a code name that was used in telegraphic messages.

The pickup went much faster than an ox wagon, except in the traffic jam outside Williston, which looked like a long, motionless steel snake festooned with lights.

Jonas, recently ticketed in his Mercury Sable wagon for bypassing a traffic jam by cruising down the shoulder, is used to making up his own rules.

Consequently, throughout the night a steady traffic of wagons and carts thundered through narrow, twisted alleyways, drovers caught in nocturnal traffic jams hurled Latin oaths, and tenement dwellers in urban apartments suffered chronic insomnia.