"By the bye" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... who went straighter. By the bye, Phineas, we must have no tricks on this Church matter. We mean to do all we can to ...
— Phineas Redux • Anthony Trollope
... of the sex that does such things)—if you had gone into the Drapery Emporium—which is really only magnificent for shop—of Messrs. Antrobus & Co.—a perfectly fictitious "Co.," by the bye—of Putney, on the 14th of August, 1895, had turned to the right-hand side, where the blocks of white linen and piles of blankets rise up to the rail from which the pink and blue prints depend, you might have been served by the central figure of this story that is now beginning. He would ...
— The Wheels of Chance - A Bicycling Idyll • H. G. Wells
... think;" and the old sailor for a moment put himself in a musing attitude, and then starting, exclaimed, "to be sure I do; the loveliest girl I ever cast eyes upon;—and what has become of her? By the bye, there was some story about her, was there not? She chose a husband for herself, and ran off, and broke her poor father's heart. ...
— The Mother's Recompense, Volume I. - A Sequel to Home Influence in Two Volumes. • Grace Aguilar
... bother to hear the kids?" objected Grace Olliver, who, by the bye, was a member of the "Dramatic," and therefore ...
— The Luckiest Girl in the School • Angela Brazil
... in leaf. The old gentleman's admiration of the increasing signs of what he called civilisation, as we approached London, became quite eloquent; but the first view of the city from Blackheath (which, by the bye, is a fine common, surrounded with villas and handsome houses) overpowered his faculties, and I shall never forget the impression it made on myself. The sun was declined towards the horizon; vast masses of dark low-hung clouds were mingled ...
— The Ayrshire Legatees • John Galt
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