The answer was no, and she galloped on until the three appeared on the hard-packed road ahead, their horses still in that ground-eating pace.
A short ride took them to a narrow hard-packed road, winding through low hills, that Mat had avoided earlier.
It's a hard-packed road to Diev, and I made it here.
They rode in complete silence, except for the clopping of the horses' hooves on the hard-packed road, for a long time.
The strange procession headed for the hard-packed road that led to the city of Cairhien.
Trains of merchants' wagons passed them in both directions, making good speed and managing to raise small clouds of dust from the hard-packed road.
"Yes," Bella said, softly, only just audible over the sound of hooves and wheels on the hard-packed road.
No matter how hard it fell, it never turned the hard-packed road to mud, but when it rained there was no dust.
Along with half his men, he swarmed and floun-dered off the hard-packed road toward me.
The dark forest loomed closer and closer as they galloped along the hard-packed road.