alleyway

Ideas of revenge took possession of him while in London, staying with his mother in an alley-way off Fleet Street.

Both rooms are very quiet on calm nights, for there is no traffic down this forsaken alley-way.

By means of an alley-way they headed him off, and lying in ambush, sprang out upon his approach, and flung themselves toward him.

He stood up, as if in agony, and cried out in a thick guttural voice: "I've got to go," and made towards the alley-way.