bystreet

Example Sentences

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Scared, the little man he was chasing ducked into a bystreet.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a bystreet into which gas had not yet penetrated, and the oil lamps shone red and dull through the fog.

From The Marquis of Lossie by MacDonald, George

As it turned into the bystreet, leading to the Duke home, Dorian saw the driver to be Mr. Jack Lamont.

From Dorian by Anderson, Nephi

In a quiet bystreet a German band of five players in faded uniforms and with battered brass instruments was playing to an audience of street arabs and leisurely messenger boys.

From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce, James

And Nur al-Din saw a fair bystreet, swept and sprinkled, whereon the zephyr blew and made pleasantness pervade it and the leaves of the trees overshaded it.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir