by-street
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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
She could, and did, imagine a sublimated “dwelling in amity” on the little by-street in Tillbury.
From Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse by Annie Roe Carr
In an unpretentious little house in a Greenock by-street James Watt first saw the light.
From The Boyhood of Great Inventors by A. Fraser Robertson
He was determined to make an excursion down an unsavoury by-street whose nature he recognized.
From I Walked in Arden by Jack Crawford
I then braced up my nerves, and fortified my heart, and went forth, and proceeded until I entered the by-street, and after I had sat a while upon the maṣṭabah, lo, the lattice opened.
From The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Anonymous
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