bystreet
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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.
From Four Meetings by James, Henry
As it turned into the bystreet, leading to the Duke home, Dorian saw the driver to be Mr. Jack Lamont.
From Dorian by Anderson, Nephi
It was a bystreet into which gas had not yet penetrated, and the oil lamps shone red and dull through the fog.
From The Marquis of Lossie by MacDonald, George
In a quiet bystreet a German band of five players in faded uniforms and with battered brass instruments was playing to an audience of street arabs and leisurely messenger boys.
From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce, James
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