byroad

Example Sentences

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Bert drifted after them like a ghost, never letting them get more than half a mile a head, for fear that they might turn into some byroad and give him the slip.

From Bert Wilson in the Rockies by Duffield, J. W.

We had come to the point where this byroad branches off from the main highway when we heard the clatter of horses' hoofs behind us.

From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

At length we turned aside into a byroad leading up a steep hill, slippery with mud, and left this pleasant valley.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

Where the Fontanes highroad crosses the byroad to Sainte Lesse they were halted by a dusty column moving rapidly west—four hundred American mules convoyed by gendarmerie and remount troopers.

From Barbarians by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

The byroad which led to the entrance of the residence ran upon a gate of grated iron near a little lodge occupied by the gardener and his wife.

From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Sue, Eug?ne