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back street

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From there we worked round the back street to Ryan's stable, McCalmont keeping up his baby-talk for the sake of passing strangers.

CURLYROGER POCOCK

Now this is what really happens to the man on the back street, as well as to the bookseller on the principal thoroughfare.

The cottages which face this back street command least rent, and are most neglected.

Securing his horse, Rathburn rode swiftly around a back street to a small barn on the edge of the desert.

THE COYOTEJAMES ROBERTS

From Rubempr we moved to Albert, where we were billeted in a small house on a back street.

"There is Mr. Hill coming along the back street on Daniel," she said, pausing.

HORACE CHASECONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON

I found my old schoolfellow in bed in a room over an oil-shop in a back street at the foot of Highgate Hill.

Mary Makebelieve lived with her mother in a small room at the very top of a big, dingy house in a Dublin back street.

MARY, MARYJAMES STEPHENS

Jinnie chose a back street leading to the lower end of the town.

ROSE O'PARADISEGRACE MILLER WHITE

Taking a back street, we avoided meeting them, and just as darkness was falling, rode into our camp some twelve miles distant.

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