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By-place   Listen
noun
By-place  n.  A retired or private place.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"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



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