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Lexicographical Neighbors of

by oneself
by owner
by rail
by right of office
by rights
by sail
by selection
by small degrees
by steam
by the Grace of God
by the book
by the by
by the bye
by the day
by the ears
by the hour (current term)
by the looks of things
by the numbers
by the piece
by the same token
by the skin of one's teeth
by the time
by the way
by trade
by trial and error
by turns
by virtue of
by walking
by way of
by word of mouth

Literary usage of

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Democracy and Liberty by William Edward Hartpole, Lecky (1896)
"... of paying work by the hour, giving the workmen large liberty of lengthening or shortening their day. Great efforts have also been made to substitute in ..."

2. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"Father Latinus quits The place of council and his large design, Vexed and bewildered by the hour's distress. He blames his own heart that he did not ask ..."

3. Astronomy and Astro-physics by European Southern Observatory, Goodsell Observatory (1886)
"... for the place of the former will be at the hour and minute on the ellipse indicated by the hour angle and the place of the latter will, of course, ..."

4. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1895)
"... time interval, indicated by the hour angles, show the deviation of the movement of the telescope from the plane of the path of the body in the sky. ..."

5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1857)
"... mottled with such a variety of colors, all so interwoven and blended together, that for the soul of you, you can but sit by the hour at the root of some ..."

6. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1873)
"... Next morning—known to be morning better by the hour-glass than by the day's clearness." Under an hour-glass in a grotto near the water, these lines were ..."

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