provision-roads

Updated: July 24, 2025

"A debauched old fellow," says Friedrich; "gone all to hebetude by his labors in that line; agrees always with the last speaker." Lobkowitz, again, is always saying: "Try something! The worst fact is the multitude of Pandours, more and more infesting our provision-roads; and that horse-forage itself is, at last, running low.

Thomas Carlyle - History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15