There was no porch, nor could there possibly be one, for an ordinary porch would reach half across the roadway.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
No rain having fallen during this month of September, the ground was dry and hard as iron, but the roadway lay deep in dust, and a continuous rolling cloud followed her firm footsteps.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
They were gloomy evening hours, when the old and the young man sat together in the office by the roadway; and at night Mavis used to hear her sleeping husband moan and groan so piteously that she sometimes felt compelled to wake him.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell