10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOFT VERGE»
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soft verge in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
soft verge and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Dictionary of Building and Civil Engineering: English/French ...
... stay [wooden, sensibly vertical] accorer vb prop, support with props accotement
m shoulder [of a roadway], verge [of a roadway] accotement m meuble soft verge
accotement m non-stabilisé soft shoulder or verge accotement m stabilisé hard ...
2
Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari ...
I wasn't sure that if I took Dick into the soft verge that I would ever be able to drag
his sluggardly rear half back onto the tar. Stay awake. Stay awake. Stayawake.
Stay awake. Boom. Dick yawed, the wheel twisting hard enough to sprain my
wrist ...
a long razor-nailed claw, Bastet pushed what looked like small square white
teeth into the soft verge where the road coming off the Golden Gate Bridge
curved around to the right and into Vista Point. “Feed them,” she commanded.
Quetzalcoatl ...
4
Grand Dictionnaire Hachette-Oxford
... navire]; 2 (aborder) to accost [personne] Bvi Naut to dock, to land accotement /
akOtmì/ nm verge; d meuble or non stabilisé Gén Civ soft verge GB, soft shoulder
accoter /akOte/ [1] Avtr 1 (étayer) to prop up [mur, façade]; 2 (appuyer) to lean (à,
...
Marie-Hélène Corréard, Valerie Grundy, Jean-Benoit Ormal-Grenon, 2007
Keira drove along Glen Road for a fewmiles inland from the beach at Waterfoot,
then pulled left on to the soft verge outside a solitary, grey, pebbledashedhouse
that looked like a child's drawing with two windows upstairs andtwo downstairs, ...
John Gordon Sinclair, 2014
A soft verge of grass and dandelions grew at the base, and the blackberries
seemed to peter out midway behind the Taylors'. She jumped down. The
ballhadleft a trail through the undergrowth, and she found it soon enough,too
paleand too ...
7
The Prophet from Ephesus
Also, Nubia knewthat with unshod hooves the horses preferredthe soft verge
tothe metalled road. At noon they crossed the River Maeander, a wide,
slowmoving river with lush reeds and grass on either side. An hour later they
crossed it again.
“Here” Greg cried in a state of agitation. “It was just here!” The deep tyre marks of
the skip lorry were plain to see in the soft verge. However, there was no sign of
the lorry. Allan quite stoically assessed the situation. “Well” he said, “it's 143.
9
Rough Guide Phrasebook: Dutch: Dutch
Ilive in... woonboot (de) vohnboht barge, houseboat woonerf residential area with
ramps to slow down traffic woonplaats domicile woord (het) vohit word Z zacht
zaKHt soft; mild zachte berm soft verge zachte lenzen (de) zaKHtuh soft lenses ...
10
The Nottingham Connection
I looked out for a soft verge and rammed the car into it. It was close to Swallow
Falls and a man out walking his dog came to our rescue. He discovered that the
car's brake fluid had leaked out. We managed to get it to a garage and I took the ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SOFT VERGE»
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soft verge is used in the context of the following news items.
Main road between Somerton and Langport closed after lorry sinks …
He said: "The lorry had parked up on the soft verge, and began sinking. "They were putting in fibreoptic cables under the road. The lorry had hardcore in the ... «Western Gazette, May 15»
Emirates jet stuck in grass at Birmingham Airport
"Whilst proceeding to the terminal, the aircraft inadvertently taxied on to the grass verge. "One set of wheels became stuck in the soft verge. "The recovery team is ... «BBC News, Dec 10»
