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back alleys

n. (plural of back alley English)

Usage examples of "back alleys".

She hid the infant Cyric from his father in the back alleys of that grim city, for the man was a leader of the Zhentilar and an agent of the Black Network, faithful to the god Bane.

At first he thought it must have been hidden in a large city so he went to Cairo and Damascus and Baghdad, into the back alleys at night.

And they had also brought pianos and guitars, and they played and sang operas, while the plebeian paper-lanterned gondolas from the suburbs and the back alleys crowded around to stare and listen.

They were more accustomed to tramping down back alleys and into sleazy motel rooms than over rocks and hills.

The rear of the house was north-facing, the narrow windows admitting views only of walls and dustbins and back alleys.

She ran down the twisting back alleys, dodging barrels of refuse and ducking under laundry lines, puffs of steamy breath peeling from the sides of her panicked face.

He was no longer Pinch, master of thieves, living his derring-do life in the slums and back alleys.

The cynical young thief from the back alleys of Cimmura had finally seen something he could not shrug off.

Some redcoats tried to clear streets with volley fire, but the grenadiers swarmed through back alleys or over garden walls to outflank the redcoat companies which could only go back uphill through the dust and tiles and burning thatch of the upper village.

She kept to the back alleys, not wanting the sight of arurimi in disguise to distract her.