by-street

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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

Pause in a narrow by-street in a crowd, and it shall be that Borgo Allegri, which the people so baptized for love of the old painter and the new-born art.

From Famous European Artists by Bolton, Sarah K.

The cab stopped at last before a block of offices in a by-street of the city.

From The Golden Web by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

I promised," he said, as soon as they had entered a by-street, "to meet you in Pavia.

From Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. by Bolanden, Conrad von

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