Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- prep. to get possession of; to obtain.
- intransitive v. To pass near or by way of.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Our boots I well remember, they were all made by a little hump-back cobbler who lived at New Wimpole, and used to come by the avenue to the 'Big House,' as it was always called, to measure us.
Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N.
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Henry George was an odd-job printer, and work was hard to come by and ill paid at best.
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"I liked the flavour of the Earl of Argyll's whisky, but that's hard to come by these days."
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Molly left a message with Mr. Moe for Gus to come by here before he took me home.
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My brother Wade is so pleased with your help, Alva Jane, that he wants you to continue to come by every day to help with Ann Marie.
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Any one who isn't ready will have to come by canal-boat.
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Ah, but yes, as you very justly observe, rappee, repose and rationality are equally hard to come by in these mad days ....
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My own senator, the distinguished gentleman from Lenoir, Harold Hardison, had never seen fit to come by to make my aquaintance before that.
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Many came to hear who had been disgusted with the usual sentiment - alism and twaddle, the absence of knowledge of human nature, the amount of conventional prejudice, They were induced to come by friends who represented that this was something quite different, and these men went away convinced in many cases, seconding resolutions and paying subscriptions.
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Ottis wants you to come by and look at some new corn seed he bought from some trapper.
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