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- phrase obsolete Contraction of
by it .
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Examples
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Th 'owd flute gi' me back mi prayer -- grace for grace, as yo 'parsons say, whatever yo' mean by't.
Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather
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Let her rail on, and see what she can get by't; whilst thee and I delight our selves in Pleasures; I'll be no Slave to that which I possess: Come, thou art mine, and shalt have what thou wilt; my Love to thee is more then to my
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So, when the occasion serves, make haste to profit by't, Lest by and by the power should fail thee thereunto. '
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV Anonymous 1879
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I could beat 'em all out o 'their boots, "said Hiel, with rather a regretful twinkle in his eye," but I won't; I'll do the right thing, ef I don't make so much by't.
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I work hard myself, and I calculate to work hard; and I make a livin 'by't; and I'm content to work hard.
Queechy 1854
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I work hard myself, and I calculate to work hard; and I make a livin by't; and I'm content to work hard.
Queechy Susan Warner 1852
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I work hard myself, and I calculate to work hard, and I make a livin 'by't; and I'm content to work hard.
Queechy, Volume I Susan Warner 1852
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And 'tis odds (if the chiel could get onything by't)
The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Thomas Moore 1815
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And still the truth he will maintain, whate'er he loses by't.
The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 Jonathan Swift 1706
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Nay, you your selves lost by't; for saunt'ring hither
The Fine Lady's Airs (1709) Thomas Baker 1704
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