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- noun Plural form of
by-blow .
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Examples
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Some of us are genuine throw-a-ways cheap paperbacks, made in China dolls, illegitimate by-blows no one had a plan for, literature and pop culture the only parents we've ever known.
Bitter Ballads - No. 3 DJ Young 2011
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He was right enough-I daresay I have by-blows all over the shop (India, mostly, and there's a Count Pencherjevsky in Russia whose paternity don't bear close scrutiny) and one of 'em was sure to come home to roost in the end.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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Family rumor says my daddy had some by-blows in another county, but I never got names out of anybody.
MORE FROM GINNY BATES: SO LOVELY, WOMEN TOGETHER Maggie Jochild 2007
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What man wouldn't be bored by a spaced-out zombie and her by-blows?
Fox Evil Walters, Minette 2002
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The masters hiding one of his by-blows in this house, and you apparently helping him to do so!
Daring Deception Hiatt, Brenda 1993
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The effect was striking, Alaire had to admit, and began to wonder if the King's personal servants here were relatives, or perhaps favored by-blows.
Prison Of Souls Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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He was right enough-I daresay I have by-blows all over the shop (India, mostly, and there's a Count Pencherjevsky in Russia whose paternity don't bear close scrutiny) and one of 'em was sure to come home to roost in the end.
Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982
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He was right enough-I daresay I have by-blows all over the shop (India, mostly, and there's a Count Pencherjevsky in Russia whose paternity don't bear close scrutiny) and one of 'em was sure to come home to roost in the end.
Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982
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Guillaume took with him his two new mistresses and all his by-blows, each magnificently clothed, as if they rode to a festival.
The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 1918
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See also how they did beat the ground with their feet as they fought, to make good their places against each other, how also with their by-blows they did split the very stones in pieces.
The Pilgrim’s Progress, in the Similitude of a Dream; The Second Part. Paras. 300-399 1909
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