Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A separate, private, or obscure street; a lane or byway.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A separate, private, or obscure street; an out of the way or cross street.
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Examples
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He went forth one day, he and Ibn Hamdún,348 to divert himself with observing his lieges and hearing the latest news of the people; and, being overtaken with the heats of noonday, they turned aside from the main thoroughfare into a little by-street, at the upper end whereof they saw a handsome and high-builded mansion, discoursing of its owner with the tongue of praise.
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You may meet him in a by-street, you may see him in the square
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So I braced myself up and heartened my heart and went out and walked on till I came to the by-street, where I sat down on the bench awhile.
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Then he turned aside into a handsome by-street, followed by the young woman, and walked on till he came to the end, when he found it was no thoroughfare and exclaimed, There is no Majesty and there is no Might save in Allah, the Glorious, the
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Presently she came to a by-street, spread with carpets and lighted with hanging lamps, and heard a noise of singing-women and drumming of tambourines.
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You may meet him in a by-street, you may see him in the square
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“A head like a gem,” went on that woman born in some by-street of Rome, and
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A corridor joined the theatre to the door on the by-street; and with this the cabinet communicated separately by a second flight of stairs.
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Round the corner from the by-street, there was a square of ancient, handsome houses, now for the most part decayed from their high estate and let in flats and chambers to all sorts and conditions of men: map-engravers, architects, shady lawyers, and the agents of obscure enterprises.
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Mr. Enfield and the lawyer were on the other side of the by-street; but when they came abreast of the entry, the former lifted up his cane and pointed.
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