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With a gesture of impatience, the stranger passed into a bye-street almost deserted.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various
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I was quietly walking along a bye-street of Caneville, when a miserable, thin, little puppy came behind me, and gently pulled my coat.
The Adventures of a Dog, and a Good Dog Too Alfred Elwes
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Some of these, congregating about the inn-yard while we changed horses, told us of great sheets of lead having been ripped off a high church-tower, and flung into a bye-street, which they then blocked up.
A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools Percy Lubbock 1922
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I went up the next bye-street, took off my waistcoat, rolled it neatly under my arm, and came back to the shop-door.
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Fighting through a bye-street, he met, steel to steel, a Spanish gentleman, within the sweep of whose sword lay half a dozen of our good fellows.
The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV Harris Dickson 1907
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And yet of the two scenes this narrow shuttered house in a bye-street of Genoa is at once the more wonderful and more credible; for it contains the elements of the other.
Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 1 Filson Young 1907
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And yet of the two scenes this narrow shuttered house in a bye-street of Genoa is at once the more wonderful and more credible; for it contains the elements of the other.
Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Complete Filson Young 1907
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And yet of the two scenes this narrow shuttered house in a bye-street of Genoa is at once the more wonderful and more credible; for it contains the elements of the other.
Christopher Columbus Young, Filson 1906
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And down that narrow bye-street of Piccadilly he had gone, and up into those 'digs' on the first floor, with their little dark hall, their Van
The Dark Flower John Galsworthy 1900
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And down that narrow bye-street of Piccadilly he had gone, and up into those 'digs' on the first floor, with their little dark hall, their Van
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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