byroad
Example Sentences
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Venn made a farewell obeisance, and walked back to his former position, where the byroad from Mistover joined the highway.
From The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
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 Irving Crump
There are fine merry fellows, full of mirth and shrewdly minted observation, who will not abide by one topic, who must always be lashing out upon some new byroad, snatching at every bush they pass.
From Mince Pie by Christopher Morley
Where the Fontanes highroad crosses the byroad to Sainte Lesse they were halted by a dusty column moving rapidly west—four hundred American mules convoyed by gendarmerie and remount troopers.
From Barbarians by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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 G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
