byroad

Example Sentences

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The lads chose the valley bottom for their journey and avoided the highway which swung to the left and made a wide detour before the byroad that approached Haystack Mountain joined it.

From The Boy Scout Fire Fighters by Crump, Irving

That will put us far enough ahead to be able to take any byroad, and throw them off our traces.

From Saint Bartholomew's Eve A Tale of the Huguenot WarS by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

Along every high road, footpath, and byroad came horses and riders of various sorts and sizes, walking or jogging along towards the central point.

From Pixie O'Shaughnessy by Groome, William H. C.

The route of the column was by a byroad, between Doue and Montreuil.

From No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee by Wood, Stanley L.

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)