by the bye

ADVERB
  1. introducing a different topic
    incidentally, I won't go to the party
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How To Use by the bye In A Sentence

  • With however what sublation of compensation in the radification of interpretation by the byeboys? Finnegans Wake
  • By the bye, "reproachfully," I have come a journey to-day, and am dreadfully tired, and you have never even offered me a chair; must I get one for myself? Molly Bawn
  • By the bye, what a strange abuse has been made of the word encyclopaedia! Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1.
  • By the bye, the publication of a splendid mezzotinto engraving of his likeness by Reynolds, was a great matter of glorification to Goldsmith, especially as it appeared in such illustrious company. The Life of Oliver Goldsmith
  • And, if you were to send a poulet to a fine woman, in such a hand, she would think that it really came from the poulailler; which, by the bye, is the etymology of the word poulet; for Henry the Fourth of France used to send billets-doux to his mistresses by his poulailler, under pretense of sending them chickens; which gave the name of poulets to those short, but expressive manuscripts. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
  • The pure arsenical tones are preferred in the Bend, and, by the bye, anybody who remembers the days when ladies wore magenta and solferino, and wants to have those dear old colors set his teeth on edge again, can go to the Bend and find them there. Jersey Street and Jersey Lane Urban and Suburban Sketches
  • There is, by the bye, a little blue butterfly whom the people call bluewing; you can see it in the summer sitting on the tall blades of the grass, and its wings resemble a flax blossom; a fluttering flax blossom with antenna instead of filaments. In Midsummer Days, and Other Tales
  • During the first hour I felt pain, but during the rest of the evening pride kindly came to my assistance and from that moment instead of feeling myself little, I grew to a most noble and patagonian [3] nature, from which I could scarcely reduce myself for many days after; and which enabled me at the moment to turn a deaf ear to the contended merits of Demosthenes and Cicero, the Borhavians in medicine, and the &c &c &c &c — and to set and compose verses 'to my Old Oak table', which by the bye is a far better companion to me, as I will make appear, than Dr. A and his son put together. Letter 115
  • By the bye, bombing Norway into oblivion sounds nontrivially difficult to me. soullite Says: Matthew Yglesias » How Realistic Are Obama’s College Graduation Targets
  • By the bye have you the book, the thing, the ashplant? Ulysses
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