bystreet

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

He left his hotel and took a lodging in the nearest bystreet to Mr. Restall's palace at Kensington.

From Little Novels by Collins, Wilkie

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

The "Belle Normande" was a modest inn in a shady bystreet, where it gave me satisfaction to think Miss Spencer must have encountered local color in abundance.

From Four Meetings by James, Henry