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"By-and-by" Quotes from Famous Books

... by-and-by if dey come," answered Pullingo. "Now, on again;" and once more moving forward, he led the way to the camp. He either took a shorter route, or we got over the ground very much faster than when we were going, as we arrived considerably ...

— Twice Lost • W.H.G. Kingston

... he kept tearing away all of it that he could reach. As soon as she caught her mother's glance, she flew to her, and began to talk nonsense to the smart ladies and gentlemen who displayed the fashions in the pages of the magazine. At first her mother laughed, but by-and-by she said, "Lenore, you are now a great girl, and yet a mere child. We have been too careless about your education; it is high time that you should begin and learn ...

— Debit and Credit - Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag • Gustav Freytag

... shall miss the deer, to a certainty," observed my father. "The birds will stay for us until we come back, so that we can bag them by-and-by." ...

— In the Wilds of Florida - A Tale of Warfare and Hunting • W.H.G. Kingston

... The old Doctor did not keep people waiting in dread suspense, while he stayed talking about the case,—the patient all the time thinking that he and the friends are discussing some alarming symptom or formidable operation which he himself is by-and-by—to hear of. ...

— Elsie Venner • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... I never construe affronts in the presence of ladies; by-and-by I shall be happy to take a ...

— The Lady of Lyons - or Love and Pride • Edward Bulwer Lytton

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