down-by

"But I would be tied down-by love," she pointed out.

Yon Ill Wind Anthony, Piers 1996

"But I would be tied down-by love," she pointed out.

Yon Ill Wind Anthony, Piers 1996

Otherwise it would surely have been forced down-or even shot down-by the automatic airspace traffic control installations.

Mystery of the Anti Scheer, Karl 1976

Strome where you were to-day and look at the skiffs and gabberts in the port down-by, and the sight never failed to put frolic in the blood of him.

Doom Castle Neil Munro

About the castle down-by his Grace has a corps of all kinds that you might pick from nine times out of ten without striking an honest man.

Doom Castle Neil Munro

After all, there are more Drimdarrochs than one in the Highlands, for the name means just 'the place at the back of the oak-wood or the oaken shaw,' and oaks are as plentiful hereabout as the lawyers are in the burgh down-by.

Doom Castle Neil Munro

"You're in luck indeed," said he; "for there's Drimdarroch -- all that's left of it to me: the land itself is in the hands of my own doer, Petullo the writer down-by, and scab seize his bestial!"

Doom Castle Neil Munro

Clan Diarmaid must have got it first by raiding in some Appin stye, as Petullo my doer down-by says.

Doom Castle Neil Munro

"And how are they all down-by?" meaning at Mr Snow's house, by

Janet's Love and Service 1859

"You had better gang up and see them, Mr. Cargill," said Mr.. Dods; "for it's maybe the last sight ye may see of Miss Mowbray -- they say she is to be married and off to England ane of thae odd-come-shortlies, wi 'some of the gowks about the Waal down-by."

St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801