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Go by

verb

Pass by. Synonyms: elapse, glide by, go along, lapse, pass, slide by, slip away, slip by.

Move past. Synonyms: go past, pass, pass by, surpass, travel by. "He passed his professor in the hall" , "One line of soldiers surpassed the other"

Be called; go by a certain name. Synonym: go under.

Be or act in accordance with.

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"Go by" Quotes from Famous Books

... the landlord, "I go by the almanac. 'Tis time for the January thaw, 'cordin' to that. Something afoot to-night, eh? One o' them little trips up the river, or out East Chester way, with ...

— Philip Winwood • Robert Neilson Stephens

... be," said Chevenix with sudden energy. He wheeled round upon her as he spoke. "We all have to be. We go by clockwork. You get the striking all wrong if you play tricks." He resumed the photograph. "By Jove, but that suits you. Child of Nature, what? I suppose you're ...

— Rest Harrow - A Comedy of Resolution • Maurice Hewlett

... that alley Through the half-open shutters see, Old crones, that talk continually In a discordant minor key: While, with a kind of nervous shiver, Past the front door, His former set go by for ever, But ...

— The Scarlet Gown - being verses by a St. Andrews Man • R. F. Murray

... "We will go by the Camerons' clearing, and then take their wood track. It is a better road," said Ranald, after they had got ...

— The Man From Glengarry - A Tale Of The Ottawa • Ralph Connor

... evidently raised me in its respect; and indeed it is a large, good word and will bear repetition. It says it is not an It, it is a She. This is probably doubtful; yet it is all one to me; what she is were nothing to me if she would but go by herself and ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

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