"By-place" Quotes from Famous Books
... the beaten path. We looked into a by-place to us; or we would not have discovered her. She was not obtrusive. She asked no aid; but, with the last few shillings that remained to her in the world, had gone to recover, if possible, an unredeemed pledge—the miniature of her mother, on which she had obtained a ... — Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures • T. S. Arthur
... 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 of the name of Ichabod Crane, who sojourned, or, as he expressed it, "tarried," in Sleepy ... — Legends That Every Child Should Know • Hamilton Wright Mabie |