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highways and byways

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highways and byways 
1. major and minor roads. The city council voted to plant new trees along all the highways and byways of the town.
2. Cliché routes and pathways, both major and minor. I hope I meet you again some day on life's highways and byways.
See also: and, byway, highway

highways and byways (slightly formal)
large and small roads The two friends traveled America's highways and byways from New Hampshire to California.
See also: and, byway, highway


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I exulted in the boundless freedom of the design; the open air of that immense scene, where adventure followed adventure with the natural sequence of life, and the days and the nights were not long enough for the events that thronged them, amidst the fields and woods, the streams and hills, the highways and byways, hostelries and hovels, prisons and palaces, which were the setting of that matchless history.
But for the rest he would have had to seek along the highways and byways of the Empire.
 
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