Citations:bye

goodbye

 * 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol:
 * "Well, I am the most disinterested among you, after all," said the first speaker, "for I never wear black gloves, and I never eat lunch. But I'll offer to go, if anybody else will. When I come to think of it, I'm not at all sure that I wasn't his most particular friend; for we used to stop and speak whenever we met. Bye, bye!"

secondary or subsidiary object, course, undertaking, issue, etc

 * by


 * 1567, Tu[...]. Ovid's Epist. 13b,
 * Refuseth me and all the wealth, and barres me by and maine.
 * 1610, Folkingham, Art of Survey, II. v. 55,
 * Extend from some fewe Maine Angls Base lines for Boundaries . . and from conuenient distances in the same, distantiate euery By.
 * a 1734, North, Lives, II, 188,
 * Neither was the main let fall, nor [...] loss, upon the by.
 * 1791-1804, D'Israeli, ''Cur. Lit. (1806), 433/r,
 * This critic was right in the main, but not by the by; in the general, not in the particular.
 * a 16[1?]9, Daniel, Coll. Hist. Eng. (16[...?]) Pref. 3,
 * These things being but of the By.
 * a 1639, W. Whateley, Prototypes, II xxxiv (1640), 159,
 * Religion is made of the by, it serveth some other Mistresse.
 * 1607, Hakewill, Apol. Pref. 10,
 * It led them some other way, thwarting and upon the by, not directly.
 * buy


 * 1580, Lyly, Enphues (Arb.) 430,
 * Alwayes haue an eye to the mayne, what so ever thou art chaunced at the buy.


 * bye


 * 1598, Barkcley, Felic. Man (1631) Pref.,
 * Dice players, that gaine more by the bye than by the maine.
 * 1603, St. Trials (R.),
 * You are fools, you are on the bye, Raleigh and I are on the main; we mean to take away the king and his cubs.
 * 1639, Sir R. Bakes in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. cxiiii. 3,
 * These are but the bye; the main of his aim is at the soul.
 * 1615, W. Hull, Mirr. Maiestie, 98,
 * Not intentionally, but accidentally (as we say) vpon the bye.