"By the bye" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... descriptions of my present place of abode is the correct one, as I fearlessly assert on the authority of divers direction-posts on the roads leading to it (by the bye this supports my doctrine that x in Latin was not pronounced eks but khi, because the latter is the first letter of Christ, for which x is here traditionally put). Finding this morning that Yolland (who called on me as soon as I had closed ...
— Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy • George Biddell Airy
... be very sorry to commit myself so far; but it is a good glass of wine. By the bye, I hope your chef has learned to make a cup of coffee since I was here in the spring. I think we will try it now." The coffee was brought, and the Prebendary shook his head,—the least shake in the ...
— The Vicar of Bullhampton • Anthony Trollope
... to my club," returned Daniel. "I shall be glad of a talk with you, very glad, my dear boy. Why, it must be four years since we saw each other. And, by the bye, you are just ...
— The Crown of Life • George Gissing
... By the bye, the question of the treason of Bazaine turns with us upon what your correspondent at Saarbruck meant by the word "stores," which he says were discovered in Metz. If munitions of war, we say that Bazaine was a hero; if food, that he was ...
— Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris • Henry Labouchere
... "By the bye," said Cadoudal, "as you go through La Roche-Bernard, just inquire what has happened to ...
— The Companions of Jehu • Alexandre Dumas
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