by-path
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by-paths
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In order to avoid them, he turned down a by-path, but to his horror still observed them riding a few paces ahead.
From Legends & Romances of Spain by Lewis Spence
Love has generally but one pathway to the heart--the eyes; it took a by-path with me--through the ears.
From The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. I (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors by Various
They proceeded to the courtyard, where the duke mounted, and Graham, taking the bridle into his hand, took the horse away into a by-path that led to the hills.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various
When close up to the termination of the shrubbery, I heard voices proceeding from a little by-path, and, following it up, soon ascertained the cause.
From Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) by Augustus F. Lindley
They saw him deliver it to old Nelson at the side portico and pedal whistling down a by-path.
From The Long Lane's Turning by Hallie Erminie Rives
The infantry followed the main road, while the cavalry, under the immediate orders of the general, proceeded by by-paths in the same direction.
From The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar by Demetrius Charles Boulger
Then I was so afraid that some one would see me that, instead of taking the main road, I came through the fields and by-paths.
From Throckmorton by Molly Elliot Seawell
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
This was a large, straggling place, half pasture, half wood, full of nooks and corners, with by-paths running hither and thither, and named after two large bowlders, which lay one on top of the other.
From A Rambler's lease by Bradford Torrey
The first part of the journey was by by-paths, and being somewhat rough, the mules could only proceed at a slow rate.
From Jovinian A Story of the Early Days of Papal Rome by William Henry Giles Kingston
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