by-path
noun
a private path or an indirect or secondary course or means; byway.
by-paths
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pluralof by-path.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
Why should we find most fair and far-off fields By thorny by-paths led?
From Derby Day in the Yukon and Other Poems of the "Northland" by Yukon Bill
In the study of antiquity there are steep and irregular by-paths that defy the traveller every step that he pursues them.
From A Cursory History of Swearing by Julian Sharman
He could follow by-paths, and avoid the rebel cavalry.
From The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession by John H. Aughey
As Man and Priest, he shunned those easy by-paths beloved by many of us when we have disagreeable duties to perform.
From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Horace Annesley Vachell
