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Definition of Byways
1. byway [n] - See also: byway
Lexicographical Neighbors of Byways
Literary usage of Byways
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1892)
"byways TO FORTUNE—BY SEA. SINCE Abel took to breeding sheep, and Cain turned his
attention to tilling the ground, there have always been certain recognised ..."
2. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1905)
"Had he but turned a little into the byways of ... These byways are such sources
as the antiquarian magazines and the 18th of October in the twentieth year ..."
3. The Desert of the Exodus: Journeys on Foot in the Wilderness of the Forty by Edward Henry Palmer (1871)
"THE HIGHWAYS AND byways OF SINAI. ... after which we again got into marching
order and resumed our wanderings in the highways and byways of the Peninsula. ..."
4. The English Illustrated Magazine (1904)
"SOME byways OF HOLLAND By H. THORNHILL TIMMINS, FRGS THE traveller who, overnight,
has quitted London by the boat train for Harwich steps upon deck on the ..."
5. Catalogueby Manton Free Library, Exeter, R.I. Manton Free Library, Washburn Observatory, Colorado State Library, Exeter (R.I.), Woodman Astronomical Library, Liverpool (England) by Manton Free Library, Exeter, R.I. Manton Free Library, Washburn Observatory, Colorado State Library, Exeter (R.I.), Woodman Astronomical Library, Liverpool (England) (1884)
"2) 1866 H 3000 — Italian byways, pp. iv+3So 1883 G 2865 Sydney. Technical or
Working Men's College. Report from the Committee of the Technical College, ..."