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

At Purfleet, on a byroad, I came across just such a place as seemed to be required, and where was displayed a dilapidated notice that the place was for sale.

From Dracula by Stoker, Bram

None of your gang saw him; but, as you can imagine, he was mightily surprised to see a mail-coach and team come jolting and floundering down that byroad.

From Highway Pirates or, The Secret Place at Coverthorne by Avery, Harold

The byroad which led to the entrance of the residence ran upon a gate of grated iron near a little lodge occupied by the gardener and his wife.

From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Sue, Eug?ne

At length we turned aside into a byroad leading up a steep hill, slippery with mud, and left this pleasant valley.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various