byroad
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I rode slowly, my mind being filled with forebodings, and I was only roused from my preoccupation by the sudden appearance of a horseman at the turning of a byroad leading from Bridgenorth.
From Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow by Strang, Herbert
By Emerson G. Taylor Miss Herron guided the fat horses into the byroad with the manner of a navigating officer on the bridge of a liner.
From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 by Various
She heard the pleasant rustle of quick steps in the fallen leaves that carpeted the byroad.
From The Conflict by Phillips, David Graham
About half a mile farther, where a byroad turned off towards Fairfield, the riders came upon a remarkable group in high debate over a donkey—Lady Latimer, Gampling the tinker, and the rural policeman.
From The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax by Lee, Holme, [pseud.]
She will get warning of danger, and guides across the country--peasants who know every byroad through the fields, and every shallow in the rivers.
From Saint Bartholomew's Eve A Tale of the Huguenot WarS by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
