by-street
Example Sentences
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I got out of the press of carriages, and took a by-street along the Tiber, to the Coliseum.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis
The prison was in a by-street of shabby houses.
From The Benefactress by Elizabeth
He was determined to make an excursion down an unsavoury by-street whose nature he recognized.
From I Walked in Arden by Jack Crawford
The insurgents thought no more of a foe who had only retired out of sight down a by-street.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
Probably, then, it would be in some by-street or alley.
From Chronicles of Martin Hewitt by Arthur Morrison
