byroad

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Bert drifted after them like a ghost, never letting them get more than half a mile a head, for fear that they might turn into some byroad and give him the slip.

From Bert Wilson in the Rockies by Duffield, J. W.

By Emerson G. Taylor Miss Herron guided the fat horses into the byroad with the manner of a navigating officer on the bridge of a liner.

From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 by Various

It was a mere byroad, and as once out of the main road they were for the present safe from pursuit, they now suffered the horses to break into a walk.

From The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

That to the right must be the byroad along which the Uhlans had ridden to cut them off.

From A Hero of Li?ge by Strang, Herbert

We are all beladen with the old sluggard load, with our flesh and blood, that chooses for ever the byroad, and keeps us ever subject to its load, so that the soul easily falls asleep.

From The Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude Preached and Explained by Gillett, E. H. (Ezra Hall)