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

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

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

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