by way of

kautta

kautta, avulla By the route of; through; via.
(quote-text)|title=The Return of the Native|chapter=1|passage=Intensity was more usually reached by way of the solemn than by way of the brilliant.
1914, (w), "The Boar-Pig" in (w):

"I always go over the wall, by way of the plum tree," said Matilda.

From Shakespeare to Milton by way of the English Bible, our language has been shaped by humanist ideas.

Thus much may serve by way of proem:

Proceed we therefore to our poem.

Why they hesitated I never could tell, unless they did it by way of a joke.

By way of apology, he tried to be gallant.

Thoreau, too, come to think of it, was, by way of being a prophet, a pioneer in this Emancipation of Man from Bothery.

"From what you tell me, he's by way of being the brains of the family."