What is "byway"

Usage examples of "byway".

Till his deathday he held the Castle of the Scaur, and cleansed the Wood Perilous of all strong-thieves and reivers, so that no high-street of a good town was safer than its glades and its byways.

Aware that crime and disease would both be on the increase, Pompey devoted some of his splendid organizational talents to diminishing crime and disease by hiring ex-gladiators to police the alleys and byways of the city, by making the College of Lictors keep an eye on the shysters and tricksters who frequented the Forum Romanum and other major marketplaces, by enlarging the swimming holes of the Trigarium, and plastering vacant walls with warning notices about good drinking water, urinating and defaecating anywhere but in the public latrines, clean hands and bad food.

Then Domini set out towards the garden, avoiding the village street, and taking a byway which skirted the desert.

And while the assortment of Masterson heirlooms the current curator has so lovingly and painstakingly collected is impressive, there is only one item unique to Masterson Manor, one item which has drawn the museologist along the twisted lanes and remote byways that lead to Trecombe: The Masterson Bed.

She avoided the neighbourhood in which she had formerly lived, and after long search discovered what she wanted in a woful byway near Old Street.

The burial-ground by which he had paused was as little restful to the eye as are most of those discoverable in the byways of London.

In the highways and byways of Clerkenwell there was a thronging of released toilers, of young and old, of male and female.

In the recesses of dim byways, where sunshine and free air are forgotten things, where families herd together in dear-rented garrets and cellars, craftsmen are for ever handling jewellery, shaping bright ornaments for the necks and arms of such as are born to the joy of life.

A little light went a long way to guide him through the stinking byways under the city.

He then led New York State troopers and Nassau County police on a high-speed, twenty-minute chase through the highways and byways of Long Island.

Morbidity makes sorcerers lose their way and become trapped in the intricate, dark byways of the unknown.

Malcolm, and travelling by byways across the hills they crossed the Cheviots a few miles south of Carter Fell, and then rode down the wild valleys to Castletown and thence to Canobie of the Esk.

One without secret byways, patrolled by clone guardians tested over centuries, genetically primed for vigilance.

We visited churches, and we visited museums and courtyards and byways and alleyways.

From their places of concealment in dark byways and dank vents, fanged orifices and greedy claws shivered forth to drag the wounded away.