by-street
Example Sentences
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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 Carr, Annie Roe
He betook himself, together with his charge, to a certain small, old-fashioned hotel in a by-street, where he was in the habit of staying whenever his ship was lying in Portsmouth Harbour.
From Submarine U93 by Gilson, Charles
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 Willis, N. Parker
In an unpretentious little house in a Greenock by-street James Watt first saw the light.
From The Boyhood of Great Inventors by Robertson, A. Fraser
The cab stopped at last before a block of offices in a by-street of the city.
From The Golden Web by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
