bypath

Example Sentences

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Their special bypath of curing disease by actual might & main is, they feel, on the upgrade.

From Time Magazine Archive

She read on, following the commentary through the mazy paths it led her on, until she came to: Keeping still is the mountain; it is a bypath; it means little stones, doors, and openings.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

At early dawn we halted at a place called Encarnacion for change of horses, and losing no time, mounted and struck a bypath to shorten the distance.

From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)

Adown the track that skirts the shallow stream     I wandered with blank mind; a bypath drew     My aimless steps aside, and, ere I knew, The forest closed around me like a dream.

From Sonnets and Other Verse by MacKeracher, W. M.

It troubled him that he had taken this bypath.

From The Saracen: The Holy War by Shea, Robert