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  • proper noun An uncommon topographical English surname of Anglo-Saxon origin; derived from ancestors who lived "by the water".

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  • One can see the effect of the tradition also in his treatment of the terms Anagnorisis and Peripeteia, which Professor Bywater translates as 'Discovery and Peripety' and Professor Butcher as 'Recognition and

    Poetics. English 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle 1911

  • There are still many missing street tiles in Bywater, particularly in the Chartres/Poland area.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2008

  • Big Babies by Michael Bywater is another and I always think Judy Burchill when I find myself reading one

    Bitter Funny and True Newmania 2007

  • Big Babies by Michael Bywater is another and I always think Judy Burchill when I find myself reading one

    Archive 2007-07-22 Newmania 2007

  • Organized by The Bon Vivants (who are Scott Baird and Josh Harris), the party followed up their volunteering on the Tuesday before Tales started (with Neyah White, Jason Henton, Borys Saciuk, Gardner Dunn, Dom Venegas, Todd Richman, John Lermayer and Jill Webster) to refurbish the Douglas High School in Bywater, which is in the process of becoming a charter school.

    Max Watman: Hot Fun in the Summer: Wrapping Up Tales of the Cocktail 2010

  • Organized by The Bon Vivants (who are Scott Baird and Josh Harris), the party followed up their volunteering on the Tuesday before Tales started (with Neyah White, Jason Henton, Borys Saciuk, Gardner Dunn, Dom Venegas, Todd Richman, John Lermayer and Jill Webster) to refurbish the Douglas High School in Bywater, which is in the process of becoming a charter school.

    Max Watman: Hot Fun in the Summer: Wrapping Up Tales of the Cocktail 2010

  • Lori and Starbuck Laney were counting on that when they started making T-shirts bearing neighborhood names such as Bywater, Uptown, Mid City, Marigny and Irish Channel.

    Archive 2004-07-01 2004

  • "Bywater," said the master, "why did you not say, at the time, that you found the piece of glass?"

    The Channings Henry Wood 1850

  • Fat Tuesday marching clubs include the Krewe of St. Anne which parades from the Bywater down Royal Street, and for those who like to stay put along the route Rex the King of Carnival will roll after the wildly popular Zulu Parade.

    Karen Dalton-Beninato: Record High Mardi Gras Crowds in New Orleans (PHOTOS) Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011

  • But the search for sufficiently large building lots has been fraught with headaches, so in the meantime Duany went ahead and built the Bywater houses on an empty corner lot with the help of an investor, in part to learn about how to build quickly and efficiently in New Orleans.

    Houses of the Future 2009

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