by-paths

The "by-paths", "valleys of delight" and "promised lands" must represent the same kind of distractions that London mentally encountered as a solitary writer.

Jack London's Nonfiction Collection of Unpublished Book Forwards 2010

The temptation of each author to saunter down shaded by-paths of personal fancy, to linger in some Valley of Delight of his choosing, to mount heights and spy out his own particular Promised Land, is ever present.

Jack London's Nonfiction Collection of Unpublished Book Forwards 2010

These, he said, “are the inviting by-paths of life into which you go for discovery, to get off the dusty road of mere duty into cool meadows and shadowed glades where the scene is changed and the air seems full of the tonic of freedom.”

The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010

These, he said, “are the inviting by-paths of life into which you go for discovery, to get off the dusty road of mere duty into cool meadows and shadowed glades where the scene is changed and the air seems full of the tonic of freedom.”

The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010

These, he said, “are the inviting by-paths of life into which you go for discovery, to get off the dusty road of mere duty into cool meadows and shadowed glades where the scene is changed and the air seems full of the tonic of freedom.”

The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010

These, he said, “are the inviting by-paths of life into which you go for discovery, to get off the dusty road of mere duty into cool meadows and shadowed glades where the scene is changed and the air seems full of the tonic of freedom.”

The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010

To conduct him on this perilous service I sent along a thin, sallow, tawny-haired Mississippian named Beene, whom I had employed as a guide and scout a few days before, on account of his intimate knowledge of the roads, from the public thoroughfares down to the insignificant by-paths of the neighboring swamps.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

Also, Henry Vaughan gave me, from my said cousin, a good horse, and a purse of gold, with two Border-prickers, as they are called, for my guides, who conducted me, by such roads and by-paths as have never been seen since the days of Sir Lancelot and Sir

The Monastery 2008

They then proceeded by by-paths through the city, Hereward leading the way, and the Count following, without speech or remonstrance, until they stood before the portal of the barracks of the Varangians.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

His youthful guide, who waited his return without, conducted him once more to his Khan, through by-paths which he could not have found out without pilotage.

The Surgeon's Daughter 2008