I might just as well demand of you the reason why you have been lying low in Italy all these years, or why you received letters addressed to a back street in Florence.
Then they each went their own way, Selah to the little green-grocer's shop in a back street of the red-brick fisher village, and Herbert to his big fashionable hotel on the Marine Parade in the noisy stuccoed modern watering place.
It was a fishy lodging of the commoner sort in a back street at Notting Hill, not far from the Portobello Road.
Not only was the Church Lane an open drain, but the piece of Back Street, between the Cross and Kneesworth Street, was an open ditch, across which was a plank bridge into the back way of the "Coach and Horses.
Henchard went off, entered Abel's house, a little cottage in Back Street, the door of which was never locked because the inmates had nothing to lose.
They have gone into a back street--that's all," said the one who occupied the enviable position in the attic.
Now this is what really happens to the man on the =back street=, as well as to =the bookseller= on the principal thoroughfare.
A bookseller locating himself on a =back street= for the purpose of doing business to enable him to give the library a large portion of his small earnings would speedily end his career.
He could not get enough library business to exist on and his chances of doing a general retail business, on a back street, would be very small indeed.
She is faithful to him who has made her his betrothed, although she is only a poor girl from a little bakery in a back street.
He hardly dared to think of what a fuss she had made when Maurits had informed her that he had engaged himself to a poor girl from a back street--a girl who had no education, no accomplishments, and who was not even pretty; only sweet.
Now that they have left the back street, and all her friends are behind them, it seems to her that Maurits really grows to something big.
It's just 'cos he lives in Greek Street, and Greek Street is what is called a back street.
He has lovely manners and splendid impulses; and perhaps the next nicest is dear Mrs. Holman, and she keeps a toy-shop in a back street.
Illustration: As, however, he passed through a back street.
I soon discovered that if the casino was up a back street he was going a long way round to reach it.
Taking a back street, we avoided meeting them, and just as darkness was falling, rode into our camp some twelve miles distant.
We had left them at a barn on a back street, but before reaching the livery, Quince concluded that he needed a few more cartridges.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "back street" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
