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1523 in East Anglian Mag. Mar. 261/2 Another chapell of an lady lying by the high weyside that I of late made.

1620 F. Quarles Feast for Wormes sig. B Hee that cleft the furious waues in twaine, Making a High-way passage through the Maine.

1657 S. Colvil Mock Poem 89 And when ye travel in carosses, Ye will salute the high-way crosses.

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ 152 Any poor Cottager that lives by the high-way side.

1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Jan. iii. 39 If..Highway Sullidge and Dung are mixed together.

1759 A. Brice Grand Gazetteer 697/2 Apple-trees..thrive here better than in any other County. The Highway Hedges are full of 'em.

1795 S. J. Pratt Gleanings through Wales I. 367 I resorted to the house of a friend..in the highway passage to Helveotsluice.

1805 J. C. Loudon Treat. Country Resid. II. vii. ii. 393 That beautiful simplicity, connexion, and picturesque effect, which may be seen in many highway bridges across streams or rivers.

1878 Act 41 & 42 Vict. c. 77 §15 Where it appears to any highway authority that any highway..ought to become a main road [etc.].

1887 E. McClain Digest Decisions Supreme Court Iowa II. 380 The statutory provision..requiring the erection of a sign at a highway crossing.

1913 A. H. Blanchard & H. B. Drowne Text-bk. Highway Engin. vi. 127 Some of the more common soils encountered in highway work are classified as gravel, sand,..and muck.

1952 K. C. Barrons in A. G. Norman Adv. in Agronomy IV. 322 In many instances highway maintenance authorities are responsible for the eradication of noxious perennial weeds growing in the right-of-way.

1991 APWA Reporter Nov. 20/3 The RPM Durable Raised Pavement Marker..is engineered to withstand heavy highway traffic.

1994 C. McCarthy Crossing 423 The castoff tirecasings..lay coiled and corrugated by the highwayside like the sloughed and sunblacked hides of the old dryland saurians.

2000 J. Ott in S. Barron et al. Reading Calif. 54 A numbered highway system best served an automobiling constituency that traveled long distances.

2009 S. W. Schmidt et al. Amer. Govt. & Politics Today (Texas ed.) vi. xxv. 874 Operation of prisons and jails, highway construction and repair,..are just a few examples of private contractors performing state government functions.