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By-street

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By´-street`
n.1.A separate, private, or obscure street; an out of the way or cross street.
He seeks by-streets, and saves the expensive coach.
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It chanced on one of these rambles that their way led them down a by-street in a busy quarter of London.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
You wonder what may be the use of this tall flagstaff in the by-street, with something like Liberty's head-dress on its top: so do I.
American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context
HALFWAY down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst.
House Of Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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