Definition of "by-ways" [by-ways]

• Plural form of by-way (alternative spelling of byways). (noun)

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• "Reagan wandered the highways and by-ways preaching the new gospel: Give us all your money, and somehow, some way, some day, we will make you rich in return."
• "Eric Malcoff enthusiasm for the by-ways of pornography turned me into a voyeur of the first water."
• "Panic ensues, servants flee, taking the silver with them (a problem only to Corf and his wealthy, clubbish friends), horses are confiscated for food and as stray dogs begin to disappear from the streets, corpses began to appear in them and in the by-ways and countrysides."