"It's a wide place in the road where people throw away all their money."

After throttling back, he looked for a wide place in the road where he could turn.

Wide place in the road - not very wide.

Someone may know how or why so many wide places in the road ended up with such an exotic variety of names, but I do not.

Burrack was a wide place in the road.

Haven had been nothing but a wide place in the road, dreaming its life away comfortably off the major Maine tourist tracks.

"And whenever the boredom of this wide place in the road gets unbearable, which, Cod knows, is practically every day.

Probably the last time I had been through it, it had been no more than a wide place in the road.

And why in God's name would he bother with a wide place in the road like Castle Rock?

Csurgo was barely a wide place in the road, with not even a gas station in evidence, and surely not an all-night 7-Eleven.

Twister's father, Wide Place in the Road, has been treating me, and up to now the tumor's been under control.

The outpost was no more than a wide place in the road with a fort, held by about 2,000 troops under General Sir Robert Sale.

She'd never heard of any of them, and she was sure that they were little more than wide places in the road, where she would find no police.

Marvin Richie, the good-natured town marshal of Magazine, Ark., a wide place in the road, got in their way by accident.

She comes from a wide place in the road called Shubuta, Miss., a farming town outside Meridian, not far from the Alabama line.

After a league or so, they came to a wide place in the road where a single whitewashed stone building, low and red-roofed, stood solidly at the roadside.

We are a wide place in the road in the middle of the world, and they wander through, back and forth, marveling at the lack of restraints.

There is great barbecue to the west, in Lexington, N.C., that might be even better known, and good barbecue at almost every wide place in the road.

Probably won't do any good-Derry's really not much more than a wide place in the road, and she's probably booked into the next century anyhow-but it can't hurt to try."

I pulled in at a wide place in the road where a couple of gasoline pumps stood like the remnants of the Lost Legion, forgotten, but still on guard.

Place Yourself outside a wide place in the road called Lowell, Kansas - that's in North America - and at a tent meeting, a revival under canvas.

Wide Place in the Road is a celebrated healer, although I'm forced to say his herbal prescription seems to be losing its effectiveness where my particular infirmity is concerned.

King's version of May is markedly different from the real thing, as he presents it as a small town that includes a number of businesses and homes, when in reality it's just a wide place in the road without a single actual business at all.

We were going from Otavalo, an Indian town on the Ecuadorean portion of the Pan-American Highway, about 20 miles east to the Indian village of Zuleta, which could be described as a wide place in the road, if the roads could be described as roads.

This morning, his caravan of 14 buses, plus ancillary vans and other vehicles, crept along the blue highways of Kentucky and Tennessee, seldom traveling more than 20 miles an hour and stopping at wide places in the road like Mayfield, Wingo, and Fulton, Ky. and Troy, Tenn.