by-path
Americannoun
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by-paths
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The ride to the Kowie, from Bathurst, is exceedingly pretty, and I shall never forget the by-path to the sands, from the small inn at Port Frances.
From The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland by Harriet Ward
Fishpingle had been constrained to stroll placidly along a by-path.
From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Horace Annesley Vachell
Leaving New Harbor, I crossed a by-path that conducted to the factory road.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake
Neither of them spoke, until they came to a by-path, leading across a waste field towards Henner Friser's premises.
From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Bernhard Severin Ingemann
She had just reached this point, and was about to turn into the by-path, when the hoot of a motor sounded behind her, and turning, she saw a large car coming slowly up the road.
From Christina by L. G. Moberly
The reply was, "There is Tan-t‘ai Mieh-ming, who when walking eschews by-paths, and who, unless there be some public function, never approaches my private residence."
From The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches by Epiphanius Wilson
The high-roads thither are always open, the lanes and by-paths are free for us to tread.
From Rambles in Dickens' Land by Robert Allbut
Not men whom circumstances Have stunted, wasted, sapped, Men fearful of fighting chances, Clinging to by-paths mapped.
From The Cornflower, and Other Poems by Jean Blewett
We confess a liking for their society, and would often as soon loiter in the by-paths that they follow as journey in the more recognized high-road of our true story.
From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Charles James Lever
Reluctant to approach to the catastrophe of my residence in France, I loiter on my way, and turn aside into by-paths.
From Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Henry Digby Beste
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