"Byroad" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... must acknowledge, with a sword thrust in my breast, and by nailing the Comte de Wardes on the byroad to Calais, like ...
— The Three Musketeers • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... perversion of their own Levitical ritual, in which they endeavoured by sortilege, by Teraphim, by observation of augury, or the flight of birds, which they called Nahas, by the means of Urim and Thummim, to find as it were a byroad to the secrets of futurity. But for the same reason that withholds us from delivering any opinion upon the degree to which the devil and his angels might be allowed to countenance the impositions of the heathen priesthood, it is impossible for us conclusively to pronounce what effect might be permitted ...
— Letters On Demonology And Witchcraft • Sir Walter Scott |
