byroad

Example Sentences

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The lads chose the valley bottom for their journey and avoided the highway which swung to the left and made a wide detour before the byroad that approached Haystack Mountain joined it.

From The Boy Scout Fire Fighters by Crump, Irving

She will get warning of danger, and guides across the country--peasants who know every byroad through the fields, and every shallow in the rivers.

From Saint Bartholomew's Eve A Tale of the Huguenot WarS by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

That will put us far enough ahead to be able to take any byroad, and throw them off our traces.

From Saint Bartholomew's Eve A Tale of the Huguenot WarS by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

The tavern-keeper said he saw such a couple turn into the byroad in front of his place, and wondered at it, for it was rare to see anybody enter that road.

From The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 by Sellar, Gordon

Her donkey, still attached to the little gaily painted market cart, had wandered on up the sandy lane, feeding at random along the fern-bordered thickets which walled in the Nivelle byroad on either side.

From Barbarians by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)