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fly by

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  1. pass by while flying
    An enemy plane flew by
  2. move by very quickly

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  • The Arawakan aborigines were about in the cultural status of our own Gulf tribes, subsisting chiefly by agriculture and practicing the simpler arts, but unfitted by their peaceful habit to withstand the inroads of the predatory Carib, whose very name is synonymous with "cannibal". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
  • Birds make territorial calls, swifts and swallows fly by, and then, bats emerge.
  • Some of them were publicly promulgated; but such as appertained to religious matters were kept secret chiefly by the pontiffs, that they might hold the minds of the people fettered by them. The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
  • In Sweden, likewise, the same principles have been introduced chiefly by Herr Otto Salomon, the director of the great sloyd seminarum at Naas. The Art of Living in Australia
  • He eked out a precarious living chiefly by writing short stories, some of which won praise but none of which earned him significant money.
  • Many viral infections are spread chiefly by aerosol, rather than by fomites or personal contact.
  • Those five chapters were the start of her children's debut Fly By Night, a rumbustiously imagined rollick through the adventures of the black-eyed orphan Mosca Mye and her pugilistic goose Saracen. Frances Hardinge: a bucketful of whimsy
  • The horizon of life is broadened chiefly by the enlargement of the heart. 
  • What most people reported seeing were watery stretches, sometime brown, sometime grey, and relieved briefly by slushy muddy patches.
  • In the latter case the foremost upper molar is small; the fibula is distinct, and never united, except in some cases where it is attached to the extremity of the tibia; the zygomatic arch is formed chiefly by the malar, which is not supported beneath by a continuation of the zygomatic process of the maxillary; collar-bones perfect; upper lip cleft; the muffle small and naked; tail cylindrical and hairy (except in _Castoridae_). Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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