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Bypath

Bypath \By"path`\, n.; pl. Bypaths. A private path; an obscure way; indirect means.

God known, my son, By what bypaths, and indirect crooked ways, I met this crown.
--Shak.

Wiktionary
bypath

n. an unfrequented path; an indirect route; a byway

WordNet
bypath

n. a side road little traveled (as in the countryside) [syn: byway, byroad]

Usage examples of "bypath".

The figure approached, but before Tom could discern anything more than that it was a woman, it disappeared behind the hedge up the little bypath that cut off the corner into Rectory Lane.

She explained what her errand had been, and added that she preferred the bypath because she was able to avoid the dusty Eastthorpe lane.

Chip, galloping madly, caught a glimpse of the fugitive a mile away, set his teeth together, and swung Blazes sharply off the trail into a bypath which intersected the road further on.

Here, of course, we have an example of the Beyond-Shopper, one who has learned the Better Way, but the helplessness exists even when such bypaths of relief are closed.

Surely within that enormous vertical void they would find bypaths and crooked ways.

In this, it seems to me, we should agree with these skeptical anti-realists and knowledge microscopists of today: their instinct, which repels them from modern reality, is unrefuted - what do their retrograde bypaths concern us!

Though I trust that I am not lacking in chivalry, nevertheless I am in no mood for the effusions of feminine gratitude and therefore, with your permission, we will take this bypath behind the gorse bushes.

The figure approached, but before Tom could discern anything more than that it was a woman, it disappeared behind the hedge up the little bypath that cut off the corner into Rectory Lane.

She explained what her errand had been, and added that she preferred the bypath because she was able to avoid the dusty Eastthorpe lane.

Chip, galloping madly, caught a glimpse of the fugitive a mile away, set his teeth together, and swung Blazes sharply off the trail into a bypath which intersected the road further on.

If one cared to go into itif there were any logical reason to botherone could become fascinated by all the ramifications and curious bypaths of astrology.

It was rarely, indeed, that a stranger passed along these bypaths, and the peasants wondered among themselves what could induce them to travel by country byways instead of following the main roads.

Mela gathered together the few useful spells she had collected during her explorations of the bypaths of the sea and tucked them into her invisible purse.

There were several bypaths which surely led to interesting things, but they were determined not to be distracted, so hurried on along the main path without pausing at any of the diversions.

Stranger things have been known to occur in the murky bypaths of the liberal establishment.