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Indeed, I am afraid all this is true: and it is owing to some little degree of politeness, that Mr. Lovelace does not say all he might on this subject: for I have no doubt that I am the talk, and perhaps the bye-word of half the county.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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He hath made me a bye-word of the people; and aforetime I was as
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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‘Keep a sure watch over a shameless daughter — [yet no watch could hold you!] lest she make thee a laughing stock to thine enemies — [as you have made us all to this cursed Lovelace,] and a bye-word in the city, and a reproach among the people, and make thee ashamed before the multitude.’
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Messiah of freedom, which he believed himself to be, has his name become a bye-word, a reproach, and an enormity?
La Vend�e 2004
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While employed in the intricate business of undressing, one of his friends, or one whom he believed such -- for your misers seldom have any -- observed that his pantofles had made him quite the bye-word of the city, and that it was high time to buy a new pair.
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O thou of faultless limbs, be the object of laughter in the world, and, O beauteous damsel, a bye-word with all the celestials.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Poor compensation this to the slaveholders for making themselves a bye-word, a proverb, and a reproach to Christendom -- for giving a new and mighty impulse to abolition, and for deepening the detestation felt by the true friends of liberty and humanity, for an institution asking and obtaining for its protection a law so repugnant to the moral sense of mankind.
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For that matter the coronal was a bye-word, and why not?
The Collectors Frank Jewett Mather
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His bye-word was "Bully for Bragg; he's hell on retreat, and will whip the Yankees yet."
"Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show Sam R. Watkins
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His majesty felt this so deeply that he distributed the honour of knighthood, on the presentation of these addresses, with such a liberal hand, as to give rise to the bye-word of
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr
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