By-and-by
the future:
to meet in the sweet by-and-by.
Historical Examples
My Friend Prospero Henry Harland
Ester Ried Yet Speaking Isabella Alden
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VI. (of 12) Edmund Burke
Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) Samuel Richardson
Jupiter Lights Constance Fenimore Woolson
Little Dorrit Charles Dickens
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 Various
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Emile Zola
The Olive Fairy Book Various
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Emile Zola
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near to or next to: a home by a lake. over the surface of, through the medium of, along, or using as a route: He came by the highway. She arrived by air. on, as a means of conveyance: They arrived by ship. to and beyond the vicinity of; past: He went by the church. […]
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