The road itself was narrow, hardly wider than a lane, but on either side was a broad strip of turf, each strip quite twice the width of the Metalled portion.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
To Boone, who had never seen a Metalled road, it meant adventuring forth into the world of his dreams.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
And, anon, I would look upward, and see the grey, Metalled mountain going up measureless into the gloom of the everlasting night; and from my feet the sheer downward sweep of the grim, metal walls, six full miles, and more, to the plain below.
"The Night Land"
William Hope Hodgson