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by-street

[bahy-street] / ˈbaɪˌstrit /


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My destination was in a by-street in a mean, rickety building.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

She could, and did, imagine a sublimated “dwelling in amity” on the little by-street in Tillbury.

From Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse by Carr, Annie Roe

I then entered a by-street which I had never entered before.

From The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Anonymous

Thence, threading many a dark alley and tortuous by-street, stopping always at main thoroughfares until their guide signaled that the way was clear, they crossed the city towards the river.

From The Great Mogul by Tracy, Louis

He turned aside from the many inviting policemen in the main road, where the contemptuous glances of wayfarers might presume his rusticity, and tried to find a policeman in a secluded by-street.

From Poor Relations by MacKenzie, Compton




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