byroad

Example Sentences

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We are all beladen with the old sluggard load, with our flesh and blood, that chooses for ever the byroad, and keeps us ever subject to its load, so that the soul easily falls asleep.

From The Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude Preached and Explained by Gillett, E. H. (Ezra Hall)

The party stopped at a small tavern on a byroad in Virginia, to rest the horses.

From Hero Stories from American History For Elementary Schools by Blaisdell, Albert F.

At first I think somewhat strange, but soon I see that there be only one such byroad.

From Dracula by Stoker, Bram

Where the Fontanes highroad crosses the byroad to Sainte Lesse they were halted by a dusty column moving rapidly west—four hundred American mules convoyed by gendarmerie and remount troopers.

From Barbarians by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

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