Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Down the way.
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Examples
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"But I would be tied down-by love," she pointed out.
Yon Ill Wind Anthony, Piers 1996
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"But I would be tied down-by love," she pointed out.
Yon Ill Wind Anthony, Piers 1996
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Otherwise it would surely have been forced down-or even shot down-by the automatic airspace traffic control installations.
Mystery of the Anti Scheer, Karl 1976
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Strome where you were to-day and look at the skiffs and gabberts in the port down-by, and the sight never failed to put frolic in the blood of him.
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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About the castle down-by his Grace has a corps of all kinds that you might pick from nine times out of ten without striking an honest man.
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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After all, there are more Drimdarrochs than one in the Highlands, for the name means just 'the place at the back of the oak-wood or the oaken shaw,' and oaks are as plentiful hereabout as the lawyers are in the burgh down-by.
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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"You're in luck indeed," said he; "for there's Drimdarroch -- all that's left of it to me: the land itself is in the hands of my own doer, Petullo the writer down-by, and scab seize his bestial!"
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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Clan Diarmaid must have got it first by raiding in some Appin stye, as Petullo my doer down-by says.
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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"And how are they all down-by?" meaning at Mr Snow's house, by
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"You had better gang up and see them, Mr. Cargill," said Mr.. Dods; "for it's maybe the last sight ye may see of Miss Mowbray -- they say she is to be married and off to England ane of thae odd-come-shortlies, wi 'some of the gowks about the Waal down-by."
St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801
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