Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- On this side of.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- preposition obsolete On this side of.
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- preposition rare On this
side of.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The troops being now in their march, half-a-mile behither the town or less, the ground we were on grew to be strait, and not above fifty paces over, having the main sea on the one side of it and the harbour-water or inner sea (as you may term it) on the other side, which in the plot is plainly shewed.
Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage Walter Bigges
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Frenchman, Spaniard, Dutch, English, and all other breed behither their mountaines _Appennines_, _Tramontani_, as who would say Barbarous.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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The troopes being novve in their march, half a myle behither the tovvne or lesse, the ground we were on grew to be straight, and not aboue fiftie paces ouer, hauing the maine sea on the side of it, and the harbour water or inner sea (as you may tearme it) on the other side, vvhich in this plot is plainely shewed.
Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage Walter Bigges
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The troops being now in their march, half-a-mile behither the town or less, the ground we were on grew to be strait, and not above fifty paces over, having the main sea on the one side of it and the harbour-water or inner sea (as you may term it) on the other side, which in the plot is plainly shewed.
Drakes Great Armada 1909
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The Italian at this day by like arrogance calleth the Frenchman, Spaniard, Dutch, English, and all other breed behither their mountaines Appennines,
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How I had been robbed in the valley I informed the senators, who told me that, in very truth, the people of that side were bad livers and naturally thievish, whereby I perceived well that, as we have with us the countries Cisalpine and Transalpine, that is, behither and beyond the mountains, so have they there the countries Cidentine and
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Tradentine, that is, behither and beyond the teeth.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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