byroad
Example Sentences
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Without further parley I left him, and set off along the byroad, scarce giving a glance to the poor dog limping painfully towards the inn.
From Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow by Strang, Herbert
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.
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
Bert drifted after them like a ghost, never letting them get more than half a mile a head, for fear that they might turn into some byroad and give him the slip.
From Bert Wilson in the Rockies by Duffield, J. W.
About half a mile farther, where a byroad turned off towards Fairfield, the riders came upon a remarkable group in high debate over a donkey—Lady Latimer, Gampling the tinker, and the rural policeman.
From The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax by Lee, Holme, [pseud.]
