Hardly a main drag

Usage examples of bystreet.

Presently--and deeply is the event impressed on my mind after seventy years of a busy life, full of almost every conceivable event--I saw, emerging from a bystreet that led from Bedford Jail, and coming along through the square and near the window where I was standing, a common farm cart, drawn by a horse which was led by a labouring man.

Its victim dropped without a cry, but the impact of the blow was loud in the nocturnal stillness of that bystreet, and was echoed in magnified volume by the crack of a skull in collision with a convenient lamppost.

Golden Unicorn, that stood in a bystreet and overlooked a Calvinist church.

Or it might have been the reluctance of the post-horses, who were refusing each gate or unlighted bystreet and worrying at their snaffles.

English Grill- Federal Street was like some narrow, gloomy London bystreet, anyway.

Now, since all Sofia's reading had inculcated the belief that the enterprising kidnapper always made off with his victim by way of dark bystreets and unsavoury neighbourhoods, she felt somewhat reassured.