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  • He mentions the beauty of the viaducts of the old Sud de France, and tells how he bicycled along the footworn side-path of the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée in preference to the road.

    The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

  • She was watching a brown spaniel that had run out of a side-path, and was looking towards them with lifted nose, making a soft, fluffy bark.

    Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

  • He thought uneasily whether there might not be a side-path or orifice anywhere through which he might creep so as to get to the other side of the hedge and listen.

    Wylder's Hand 2003

  • The postman turned up a side-path, and the young girl, as though deciding within herself that if she could not go shopping at once she might as well get back for the skimming, retraced her steps.

    The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid 2003

  • She looked not for the unknown, still how great was her vexation at perceiving the back of a man, certainly he, with his two attendants, as he turned into a side-path which led to the house!

    Maria; or The Wrongs of Woman 2002

  • Because he had red paint thrown over him as he came in the side-path entrance first thing this morning, by protesters shouting about violence in the movies.

    Not the End of the World Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1998

  • It led directly to the forester's cottage, but also provided the quickest way to a side-path which continued to the hermitage, the obvious place to look first for Cuthred's servant.

    The Hermit of Eyton Forest Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1987

  • It led directly to the forester's cottage, but also provided the quickest way to a side-path which continued to the hermitage, the obvious place to look first for Cuthred's servant.

    The Hermit of Eyton Forest Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1987

  • They strolled on, past flowering shrubs and then, taking a steep little side-path, came upon an enormous and impressive bare rock.

    My Bones Will Keep Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1977

  • He could hear nothing, so he slipped out of the shed, locked the door and made his way up the side-path through the shrubbery.

    The Mystery of Holly Lane Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1953

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