By-turning

the many by-turnings that may divert you from your way

Alias Children, Sir: they have rung me / Such a Ring this Morning through / Every By-turning that leads to a Baudy- / Houſe, […]

But in endeavouring to pass down a by-turning which seemed more free from the obstruction of the crowd, there was a sudden rush of a mob of persons eager to catch a sight of some celebrated personage who was passing in the adjoining street in his carriage, […]

Noeline. / No, mother, but I got mixed up in a street-fight, through protecting a girl from a brute who was going to hit her. I punched him, mother! […] Noeline. / After I’d done it I ran away, and fainted in a by-turning.

Passing under Waterloo bridge on our left lay Summerset House^([sic]) where all records of births, marriages and deaths are kept. Took a byturning on our left and reached the Strand, down which we proceeded to Trafalgar Square, saw the monument erected in memory of Lord Nelson.