by-place

I paid for one room with a small kitchen and a by-place for my slave, fifteen dollars for six weeks, which equalled the annual rent of the whole house received by the landlord; and I should have been obliged to pay the same price if I had taken it only during the fortnight preceding and following the Hadj.

Travels in Arabia 2003

In this by-place of nature, there abode, in a remote period of

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

They pursued their journey with great simplicity, only speaking of God and of things calculated for edification; they often retired to some by-place for the purpose of praying, without troubling themselves where they should pass the night; and God raised up persons who received them hospitably.

The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Father Candide Chalippe

There was an old arbor in a by-place of the garden, covered with creeper and honeysuckle, and though rudely built, yet there was a quiet retirement about it that I felt would be grateful to my spirit.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Various

In the mean while Peg runs too and again, almost like one out of her sences, to hunt for the Nurse, who dwels in a little street upon a back-Chamber, or in an Ally, or some other by-place; and she is just now no where else to be found but at t'other end of the City, there keeping another Gentle woman in Child-bed.

The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

They who repaired to a swamp or other by-place to cook by night, carefully destroyed everything likely to detect them, before they returned to their cabins in the morning.

Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West Austin Steward

In this by-place of nature there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight

Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker

They pursued their journey with great simplicity, only speaking of God and of things calculated for edification; they often retired to some by-place for the purpose of praying, without troubling themselves where they should pass the night; and God raised up persons who received them hospitably.

The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Chalippe, Father Candide 1917

When they had come to a by-place, they both dismounted their respective horses and fell to beating me with great violence.

A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture Smith, a Native of Africa, but Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America. Related by Himself. New London: Printed in 1798. Reprinted A. D. 1835, and Published by a Descendant of Venture. Revised and Republished with Traditions by H. M. Selden, Haddam, Conn., 1896. 1897

B. ’s life and death was going on in a country by-place in Scotland!

Robert Burns as Poet and Person. November Boughs 1892