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Path   /pæθ/   Listen
Path

noun
(pl. paths)
1.
A course of conduct.  Synonyms: way, way of life.  "We went our separate ways" , "Our paths in life led us apart" , "Genius usually follows a revolutionary path"
2.
A way especially designed for a particular use.
3.
An established line of travel or access.  Synonyms: itinerary, route.
4.
A line or route along which something travels or moves.  Synonyms: course, track.  "The track of an animal" , "The course of the river"



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"Path" Quotes from Famous Books



... not long, but time after time it took all the pluck of which Juanita Sterling was mistress not to stop in the path and cry out that she could not ...
— Polly and the Princess • Emma C. Dowd
... all the band. The experienced huntsman urges on the greyhound, and he springs forward, tossing up the snow, and a score of times outrunning the hare, in the ardour of his course. And so it was with Andrii. Old Taras paused and observed how he cleared a path before him, hewing away and dealing blows to the right and the left. Taras could not restrain himself, but shouted: "Your comrades! your comrades! you devil's brat, would you kill your own comrades?" But Andrii distinguished not who stood before him, comrades or strangers; he saw nothing. Curls, ...
— Taras Bulba and Other Tales • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
... is another difficulty in the path of the theory that the Iliad is the work of four centuries. If it was, we are not enabled to understand how it came to be what it is. No editor could possibly tinker it into the whole which we possess; none could steer clear of many absurd anachronisms. ...
— Homer and His Age • Andrew Lang
... understand English, even if he could not print it. Let us see if we can pick up the trace again. Yes, here we are—three days later. 'Am making successful arrangements. Patience and prudence. The clouds will pass. G.' Nothing for a week after that. Then comes something much more definite: 'The path is clearing. If I find chance signal message remember code agreed—One A, two B, and so on. You will hear soon. G.' That was in yesterday's paper, and there is nothing in to-day's. It's all very appropriate ...
— The Adventure of the Red Circle • Arthur Conan Doyle
... ten years old. My father possessed a fine estate, and we lived in the greatest luxury. I had ridden out by myself on my pony, and had reached a somewhat secluded part of the park, where the bridle-path passed among grassy knolls, and tall trees, flinging their branches across a narrow dell, formed a thick canopy overhead, and gave a somewhat gloomy aspect to the sequestered spot. It was one I seldom visited, and I was wondering whether sprites or fairies, ...
— Tales of the Sea - And of our Jack Tars • W.H.G. Kingston


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