bypath

Example Sentences

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Their special bypath of curing disease by actual might & main is, they feel, on the upgrade.

From Time Magazine Archive

She read on, following the commentary through the mazy paths it led her on, until she came to: Keeping still is the mountain; it is a bypath; it means little stones, doors, and openings.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

“We must put Adams and Hancock on their guard,” said Mr. Gerry; and a little later a messenger on horseback was scurrying along a bypath towards Lexington.

From Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance by Coffin, Charles Carleton

Adown the track that skirts the shallow stream     I wandered with blank mind; a bypath drew     My aimless steps aside, and, ere I knew, The forest closed around me like a dream.

From Sonnets and Other Verse by MacKeracher, W. M.

There might be some path or track to the river-side of which he knew nothing; and if that bypath existed Purvis would certainly take it, however circuitous it might be.

From Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir by Macnaughtan, S. (Sarah)