Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An indirect or rarely used path.
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- noun an
unfrequented path ; abyway
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Examples
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He added, ominously, “Here a broad by-path branches off into pathology.”
Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008
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He added, ominously, “Here a broad by-path branches off into pathology.”
Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008
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He added, ominously, “Here a broad by-path branches off into pathology.”
Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008
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He added, ominously, “Here a broad by-path branches off into pathology.”
Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008
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He added, ominously, “Here a broad by-path branches off into pathology.”
Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008
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He added, ominously, “Here a broad by-path branches off into pathology.”
Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008
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He added, ominously, “Here a broad by-path branches off into pathology.”
Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008
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He added, ominously, “Here a broad by-path branches off into pathology.”
Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008
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But this noble lady, whose heart never failed her, encouraged her soldiers by her own example; went from post to post like a great general; even mounted on horseback fully armed, and, issuing from the castle by a by-path, fell upon the French camp, set fire to the tents, and threw the whole force into disorder.
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They conducted their prisoner in a direction leading more and more from the public road, but she observed that they kept a sort of track or by-path, which relieved her from part of her apprehensions, which would have been greatly increased had they not seemed to follow a determined and ascertained route.
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