135 examples of byway in sentences

Virtue leads the race to Joy, and there is no byway to this height.

It was then with a light heart that I set out by a byway under Furze Down, and so across the open heath, coming down at last through the woods to the ruins of the abbey and the river of Beaulieu.

So by many a byway I went northward to Minstead in Malwood, where I found a most curious church, rather indeed a house than a church, with dormer windows in the roof, an enormous three-decker pulpit within, galleries, and two great pews, one with a fireplace, and I know not what other quaint rubbish of the eighteenth century.

There he wandered for a long time, through highway and byway, through dingly dell and forest skirts.

Onward they journeyed, through highway and byway, through villages where goodwives and merry lasses peeped through the casements at the fine show of young men, until at last they came over beyond Alverton in Derbyshire.

On the evening of the fourth day he reached Nottingham Town, and there straightway divided his men into bands of six or seven, and sent them all through the countryside, blocking every highway and byway to the eastward and the southward and the westward of Sherwood.

Mr. Heatherbloom turned from dark byway to dark byway.

Mr. Heatherbloom turned from dark byway to dark byway.

'Not altogether,' said Andrew, 'for the Squire wills us to turn into the byway here, and keep from the high road awhile, lest we meet the baser rascals coming back, in all their fury and disappointment.' 'Good counsel,' said Mrs. Golding; 'we will take it.'

And so we kept to that byway for a mile or so; and it was rough uneasy riding, though a pretty green lane enough.

For Sir Boindegardus was surnamed the Savage because he dwelt like a wild man in the forest in a lonely dismal castle of the woodland; and because that from this castle he would issue forth at times to rob and pillage the wayfarers who passed by along the forest byways.

We never sought to turn off the main-traveled streets into a byway but our path was barred by a guard seeking to know our business.

I remember Liege best at this present distance by reason of a small thing that occurred as we rode, just before dusk, through a byway near the river.

9. Necromancers take upon them to raise and lay them at their pleasures: and so likewise, those which Mizaldus calls ambulones, that walk about midnight on great heaths and desert places, which (saith Lavater) "draw men out of the way, and lead them all night a byway, or quite bar them of their way;" these have several names in several places; we commonly call them Pucks.

"Wild beasts were not coming toward him, but a poor old woman, named Finn-Malin, who was in the habit of roaming about on highways and byways.

He also called off two or three of the men to get out the boarding-netting of the ship, which was well provided in that respect; a good provision having been made, byway of keeping the Fejee people at arms' length.

Long after midnight he entered a narrow byway, which the pale moon showed to be decent, though not inviting.

The second use is a word of instruction, and it shall be but a word or two; that if all the saints of God must walk in the same way of life and salvation that Abraham did, then there is no byway to bring a man to happiness.

He spoke of none of the achievements which the world granted to be his; instead, the little byway humanities were called forth, for the other to hearbuds of thought and action, which other pressures had kept from fertilizing into seedthe very things he would have delighted in relating to a dear, wise woman.

THE MANY ROADS HORACE HOLLEY ex-'10 The north road, the south road, Highway, byway, There never was a road men trod That did not lead them home.

The laws of the place are written large, so that all may read them; and we know that every road, whether it be my trodden path or some byway through your gayer meadows, yet leads in the end to God.

They went side by side down the road in silence, and in silence turned into the cinder-made byway that presently opened out the prospect of the valley.

Almost every human malady is connected, either by highway or byway, with the stomach.

There are an infinite number of forks, angles, and turnings, and by a native on foot short cuts can be made to any objective point, but the automobile passes a byway before it is seen.

Is it not high time that the local authoritiesand the local policelooked to this particular "highway," which seems so much more like a "byway" not to say a "by-word and a reproach" to a city suburb? * * * *

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