by-street
Example Sentences
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A corridor joined the theatre to the door on the by-street; and with this, the cabinet communicated separately by a second flight of stairs.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
A turn to the right led through a small entry into a by-street which gave access to one of the main thoroughfares of the city.
From The Sailor by Snaith, J. C.
I then entered a by-street which I had never entered before.
From The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Anonymous
He was determined to make an excursion down an unsavoury by-street whose nature he recognized.
From I Walked in Arden by Crawford, Jack
In an unpretentious little house in a Greenock by-street James Watt first saw the light.
From The Boyhood of Great Inventors by Robertson, A. Fraser
