byway

Word Origin & History

mid-14c., from by + way (n.).

One evening, in a byway where he was watching for her, Margot at last raised her hand.

Robbie had turned into a byway that bore the name of King's Arms Lane.

It meant that he knew every trail and byway for miles about Temple Camp.

The street might have been a byway in old Pompeii for all the life that moved within it.

It is a vile road, and I must take the byway through the forest.

From every farm and byway came men to have a word with the superintendent.

And presently he slipped out by a byway into the street again, among the savages.

Mr. Bangs rode along every highway and byway, day after day, not missing a trick.

The cabin of the Reverdys stood on a byway beyond the Gillespies.

The lawyer turned into a byway which carried him through the Ghetto.

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