by-street
Example Sentences
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At Chateaudun as at Vendome, we sought out lodgings in a by-street, and therein passed the night.
From The Bright Face of Danger Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire by Stephens, Robert Neilson
He turned aside from the many inviting policemen in the main road, where the contemptuous glances of wayfarers might presume his rusticity, and tried to find a policeman in a secluded by-street.
From Poor Relations by MacKenzie, Compton
This spectacle lent the secretary wings; and he did not relax his pace until he had gained the Bayswater Road, and plunged at random into an unfrequented by-street.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 4 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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)
I turned east again without knowing it, and it was quite dark when I passed along a sombre little by-street, ill lighted and empty.
From The Three Impostors or The Transmutations by Machen, Arthur
