by-street
Example Sentences
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Pause in a narrow by-street in a crowd, and it shall be that Borgo Allegri, which the people so baptized for love of the old painter and the new-born art.
From Famous European Artists by Bolton, Sarah K.
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 prison was in a by-street of shabby houses.
From The Benefactress by Elizabeth
By ten o’clock, when the shops were closed, the by-street was very solitary and, in spite of the low growl of London from all round, very 238 silent.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
“Or he may have fled,” said Utterson, and he turned to examine the door in the by-street.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
