The really acute roadmaker will be as shy of having clay in the interstices of his stone work as the vigilant mason is of having clay in a brick or stone wall.
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The really acute roadmaker will be as shy of having clay in the interstices of his stone work as the vigilant mason is of having clay in a brick or stone wall.
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In France every freight and market wagon is a roadmaker.
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Hannibal was a roadmaker, Cromwell was a roadmaker, Napoleon was a roadmaker.
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"Thank you for the compliment, your Reverence," he replied, construing the delicate innuendo in a favourable sense' "sure every one, high and low, knows Andy Spain, the roadmaker, after his forty years on the highway, since I was a gossoon helpin' my father, who was a roadmaker before me. Bedad, I am a well-known character, and no mistake."
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