- a variation of by-street.
bystreet
Example Sentences
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Scared, the little man he was chasing ducked into a bystreet.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It was a bystreet into which gas had not yet penetrated, and the oil lamps shone red and dull through the fog.
From The Marquis of Lossie by George MacDonald
And Nur al-Din saw a fair bystreet, swept and sprinkled, whereon the zephyr blew and made pleasantness pervade it and the leaves of the trees overshaded it.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
The "Belle Normande" was a modest inn in a shady bystreet, where it gave me satisfaction to think Miss Spencer must have encountered local color in abundance.
From Four Meetings by Henry James
It was a spirited sight to see them come leaping fences, tearing around corners, swarming out of every bystreet and alley.
From Those Extraordinary Twins by Mark Twain