by-street
Example Sentences
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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
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 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
He turned aside from the many inviting policemen in the main road, where the contemptuous glances of wayfarers might presume his rusticity, and tried to find a policeman in a secluded by-street.
From Poor Relations by MacKenzie, Compton
