At first I think somewhat strange, but soon I see that there be only one such byroad. From Wordnik.com. [Dracula] Reference
The Signal Section went astray and remained silently on a byroad while their officer reconnoitred. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
At length we turned aside into a byroad leading up a steep hill, slippery with mud, and left this pleasant valley. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
"Watch the horses!" screeches a woman in a leather skirt as the two boys run along the rough stones of the byroad. From Wordnik.com. [The Towers of the Sunset]
Miss Herron guided the fat horses into the byroad with the manner of a navigating officer on the bridge of a liner. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
"Bring him back!" ordered Hugh, and his officers swung willingly into the byroad, and spurred into a gallop after the fugitive. From Wordnik.com. [The Holy Thief]
Without further parley I left him, and set off along the byroad, scarce giving a glance to the poor dog limping painfully towards the inn. From Wordnik.com. [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference
One is taking a stroll down a critterly byroad and another isspeculating about the evolution of the gnome-phobic, fantasy-avoiding editor. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog Tour Continues: Discourses & "Draconian" Merriment!] Reference
The horse no doubt came in on a sort of byroad that led to Camp Barry, which turned north from the Branch Barracks towards the Bladensburg road. From Wordnik.com. [Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After] Reference
The tavern-keeper said he saw such a couple turn into the byroad in front of his place, and wondered at it, for it was rare to see anybody enter that road. From Wordnik.com. [The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825] Reference
I told him my suspicions in quick, breathless gasps, and bade him send to Mr. Allardyce for assistance, and to follow me, if he could, along the byroad to Deuxhill. From Wordnik.com. [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference
Hugh had left the main thoroughfare, and was passing along a byroad that would take him around through the hilly country, until the Scranton turnpike was again reached. From Wordnik.com. [The Chums of Scranton High on the Cinder Path] Reference
I rode slowly, my mind being filled with forebodings, and I was only roused from my preoccupation by the sudden appearance of a horseman at the turning of a byroad leading from Bridgenorth. From Wordnik.com. [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference
Returning I was forced into a byroad by the column, lost my way, took the wrong road out of the town, but managed in about a couple of hours to pick up the Signal Co., which by this time had reached the Chateau at. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
The route of the column was by a byroad, between Doue and. From Wordnik.com. [No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee] Reference
At the rear there lay fields crossed by a lane or byroad. From Wordnik.com. [My Novel — Complete] Reference
She heard the pleasant rustle of quick steps in the fallen leaves that carpeted the byroad. From Wordnik.com. [The Conflict] Reference
That will put us far enough ahead to be able to take any byroad, and throw them off our traces. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Bartholomew's Eve A Tale of the Huguenot WarS] Reference
Venn made a farewell obeisance, and walked back to his former position, where the byroad from Mistover joined the highway. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of the Native] Reference
But the road, even the byroad, was excellent; for Lowick, as we have seen, was not a parish of muddy lanes and poor tenants; and it was into. From Wordnik.com. [Middlemarch] Reference
I followed a byroad, beside a little creek in the edge of a wood, my eye caught a glimpse of a small brown bird darting under a stone bridge. From Wordnik.com. [Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs] Reference
As I followed a byroad, beside a little creek in the edge of a wood, my eye caught a glimpse of a small brown bird darting under a stone bridge. From Wordnik.com. [The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers] Reference
Along every high road, footpath, and byroad came horses and riders of various sorts and sizes, walking or jogging along towards the central point. From Wordnik.com. [Pixie O'Shaughnessy] Reference
She will get warning of danger, and guides across the country -- peasants who know every byroad through the fields, and every shallow in the rivers. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Bartholomew's Eve A Tale of the Huguenot WarS] Reference
He checked his speed, and turning into a byroad, sometimes used as a cut - off, trotted leisurely along, the reins hanging listlessly from his fingers. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers] Reference
I recross the Charbagh bridge and bend away to the left by the byroad along the canal side by which the 78th Highlanders penetrated to the front of the Kaiser-bagh. From Wordnik.com. [Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places] Reference
He therefore struck off by a byroad and, travelling slowly along, turned off two hours later to a farmhouse, the lights from which had made him aware of its proximity. From Wordnik.com. [With Frederick the Great A Story of the Seven Years' War] Reference
I certainly should have turned back less than half way if I had been concerned with anybody else than you; and when we turned off the Via Salaria into your country byroad. From Wordnik.com. [Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire] Reference
Aescendune early on a fine summer morning, and followed a byroad through the forest, until, after a few difficulties, arising from entanglement in copse or swamp, they reached the Foss Way. From Wordnik.com. [Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune] Reference
On a quiet byroad near headquarters town, where all the staff business of General Headquarters was conducted, a wisp of a flag hung at the entrance to the grounds of a small modern chateau. From Wordnik.com. [My Second Year of the War] Reference
Where the Fontanes highroad crosses the byroad to Sainte Lesse they were halted by a dusty column moving rapidly west -- four hundred American mules convoyed by gendarmerie and remount troopers. From Wordnik.com. [Barbarians] Reference
Her donkey, still attached to the little gaily painted market cart, had wandered on up the sandy lane, feeding at random along the fern-bordered thickets which walled in the Nivelle byroad on either side. From Wordnik.com. [Barbarians] Reference
But the road, even the byroad, was excellent; for Lowick, as we have seen, was not a parish of muddy lanes and poor tenants; and it was into Lowick parish that Fred and Rosamond entered after a couple of miles 'riding. From Wordnik.com. [Middlemarch] Reference
A part of the abandoned byroad, to look and listen for him. From Wordnik.com. [An Enemy to the King] Reference
"You ran a very great risk, dear, when you went into that byroad and were attacked by those fierce dogs. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Vivian A Story of Haddo Court School] Reference
"Girls," said Judith, suddenly halting them all in the little byroad which they were travelling, "don't you think we'd better cut across here?. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
“At Purfleet, on a byroad, I came across just such a place as seemed to be required, and where was displayed a dilapidated notice that the place was for sale. From Wordnik.com. [Dracula] Reference
Anyway, you claim that there is no reason to suspect hooliganism, but what about the burnt-out car found blocking the byroad to the old convent just close at hand?’. From Wordnik.com. [Here Lies Gloria Mundy]
Lane came to a byroad, a lane lined with trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of the Beast] Reference
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