bystreet
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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I easily found his lodgings, at a little grocer’s shop in a bystreet, where he had the first floor, the front window being turned into quite a garden with flowers, and some scarlet-runners twining up strings on either side.
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Scared, the little man he was chasing ducked into a bystreet.
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The "Belle Normande" was a modest inn in a shady bystreet, where it gave me satisfaction to think Miss Spencer must have encountered local color in abundance.
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I felt I ought to rush up and shake them, take them into a bystreet, turn their eyes upon Jupiter, and tell them they must die; but I thought it might spoil the play for them.
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As it turned into the bystreet, leading to the Duke home, Dorian saw the driver to be Mr. Jack Lamont.
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