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Frank Kennedy will shew you the penalties in the act, and ye ken yoursell they used to put their run goods into the auld Place of Ellangowan up bye there.
1880, W. Alexander, Johnny Gibb:
This was lattin at me, ye ken, for inveetin the coachman an' the gamekeeper up bye.
1894, David Storrar Meldrum, Margridel:
No word of a new house-keeper down bye, Wull?
1927, John Buchan, Witch Wood:
There's a friend of yours up bye that would be blithe to see you—up the rig from the auld aik on the road to the Greenshiel.
At length having gained a very bye Alley, where he thought he might enter into a Conference unnoticed by any who knew him.
1797, John Henry Prince, Original letters and essays on moral and entertaining subjects, page 85:
I left Colchester at one o'clock, and had a very agreeable ride from thence to my Uncle's– It is a very bye road , I did not meet a carriage or horse all the way, which is I believe eleven or twelve miles, but however I turned this to good advantage, and availed myself of the rural ride and variegated prospects, which assisted me to meditate.
2013, Captain Alexander Smith, Arthur L. Hayward, A Complete History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most Notorious Highwaymen, Footpads, Shoplifts and Cheats of Both Sexes, page 69:
So riding towards Cheshunt in the same county, he put into a bye sort of a house, a little out of the road, in which, finding only a poor old woman bitterly weeping, and asking the reason of shedding those tears, she told him, that she was a poor widow and being somewhat indebted for rent to her landlord whe expected him every minute to come and seize what few goods she had, which would be her utter ruin.
Secondary; supplementary.
1894, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, Eight Chapters on the History of Work and Wages, page 138:
But the two labourers of whom I am speaking had their allowances, lived on their fixed wages with the profits of their bye labour, one being pig-killer to the village, and, therefore, always busy from Michaelmas to Lady-day, at a shilling a pig, and the offal, on which his family subsisted, wit h the produce of their small curtilage, for half the year.
2012, Eileen Power, Michael Moïssey Postan, Medieval Women, page 45:
As we shall see presently the wife of a craftsman almost always worked as her husband's assistant in his trade, or if not, she often eked out the family income by some such bye industry as brewing and spinning; sometimes she even practised a separate trade as a femme sole.
2018, Victor D Lippit, Revival: Land Reform and Economic Development in China (1975), page 54:
It is the custom in some provinces to pay only according to the basic crops produced, but in others the share is calculated out of the total produce of the farm, both bye and main products.
2015, Amir Abrams, Diva Rules, Dafina Books, →ISBN, page 151:
“Okay, busted. But you see all them muscles, girl?” She shakes her head, laughing. “Nope. I only have eyes for my boo.” “Girl, bye. You can still look.” She giggles. “Well, I ain’t lookin’ hard, trust.[…]”
2016 August 7, Susan Edelman, C.J. Sullivan, Bruce Golding, “Trump supporter’s sign gets torched”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-05:
Rowlings-Blake responded: "Girl bye, if he can't take criticism from 'a joke', what's he gonna do when somebody real comes for him? #notready"
2021 February 18, @mi55fatima, Twitter, archived from the original on 20 July 2023:
Her jeans don't even got the loops for her damn belt LMFAO bye 😭
2021 December 20, @kplightning, Twitter, archived from the original on 20 July 2023:
"i wish to get back a couple of katycats that left my side" bye did she really say this..its so sad i love her sm 😢😔
2023 July 11, @KimcastCares, Twitter, archived from the original on 20 July 2023:
"I just want Johnny to leave me alone." Girl, bye. Control your lap dog.
1883, Rose Garfield Clemens, “Pat and the Pig”, in Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine, volume 58, page 383:
"So what shall I do, now, Patric? Can you think of any plan? "Bedad!" said Pat , as he scratched his head , “ I'm the very bye that can."
1887, “Pat's Love Episode”, in Parry's Monthly Magazine, volume 3, page 252:
'Och,' sez I, 'there's many a bye that's lonely livin' rite wid his friends an' naybors. Sure an' I'm lonesome mesilf.'
1903, Our Young People - Volume 12, page 51:
There a bye has his hand toorn off, and there a bye loses his eyesight complately, and over yan a bye has his joogular vein torn wid a whistlin' boom, and forninst that is the bye who thinks his gun isn't loaded and kills his little sisther.
1907, International Molders' and Foundry Workers' Journal, page 545:
In thim days the bye who wint to work in the foundhry to learn the thrade, in goin' into the shop in the morning would meet a big, ruffneck boss wit his blue faunel shirt on and his schleeves rolled up to his ilbows, who could show him the mishtakes he made the day befoor, if he made any.
1920, Marjorie Benton Cooke, The Girl who Lived in the Woods, page 184:
I know a nice bye who's goin' to git two cookies fer thim worrds.
2012, Robert Craig Brown, Illustrated History of Canada, page 224:
Hardy, weatherbeaten, intimately familiar with the winds and tides of his local shore, capable of turning his hand to many things, squeezing a hard living from the treacherous sea—a figure rendered familiar by the words “Ise the bye who builds the boat / And ise the bye that sails her / Ise the bye who catches the fish / And takes them home to Liza."
1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 54:
Hea's a gooude lickeen bye.
He's a good-looking boy.
1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 5, page 96:
Earch myde was a queen, an earch bye was a king;
Each maid was a queen, and each boy was a king;
1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 5, page 96:
Zoo wough aul vell a-danceen; earch bye gae a poage
So we all fell a-dancing; each boy gave a kiss
References
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 29