by-street

Example Sentences

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She took Miss Chrysanthemum and Mr. Prosperity under her wing, as it were, rented a comfortable little house on a by-street and installed them therein, married.

From A Japanese Boy by Shiukichi, Shigemi

Thence, threading many a dark alley and tortuous by-street, stopping always at main thoroughfares until their guide signaled that the way was clear, they crossed the city towards the river.

From The Great Mogul by Tracy, Louis

This spectacle lent the secretary wings; and he did not relax his pace until he had gained the Bayswater Road, and plunged at random into an unfrequented by-street.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 4 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

The insurgents thought no more of a foe who had only retired out of sight down a by-street.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis

I turned east again without knowing it, and it was quite dark when I passed along a sombre little by-street, ill lighted and empty.

From The Three Impostors or The Transmutations by Machen, Arthur