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She had become a "young besom," and her crime was what you might have expected from the bye-blow of an ear-ringed foreigner, who bowed down to idols instead of the laws of God and the British Constitution.

The White Riband A Young Female's Folly Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse

And anew she fondled the little bye-blow as it lay with its sunny hair on the soldier's plaid.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

"Sit ye down, Stewart," said he; "your race is royal, as ye must be aye telling us, but there's surely many a droll bye-blow in the breed."

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

”—“Nay, ” said the landlady, “if I thought he was a gentleman’s son, thof he was a bye-blow, I should behave to him in another guess manner; for many of these bye-blows come to be great men, and, as my poor first husband used to say, never affront any customer that’s a gentleman.

IV. In Which Is Introduced One of the Pleasantest Barbers That Was Ever Recorded in History. Book VIII 1917

Divorce_, and now and then a bye-blow from the Pulpit, feathered with

The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864

Simple -- and many will blame me for it, but I can't help my natural feelings -- that I had rather be the bye-blow of a gentleman, than the

Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 Frederick Marryat 1820

The Baronet, who never designed seriously to insult his aunt, but merely to have a bye-blow at her prominent foible, -- pride of descent, -- listened with becoming deference to her dissertation, which was interrupted by the entrance of his servant, (the same who on a certain occasion confided to Mother Cummings the safety of his master's property, {1}) -- "The tailor's boy, Sir Felix, for the new suit your Honor ordered to be altered."

Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821) John Badcock 1823

Then follows our terrible bye-blow.) "And this bewildered idealist was a very bigot in behoof _of the common-sensical satirist, the almost peevish realist_ -- _Pope_!"

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various