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“All I know is you need someone, in the by and by, you need someone who’s gonna cry for you,” Bird crooned, eyes closed, voice nearly breaking with emphasis on the aptly titled “Need Someone.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
Seattle isn’t the Big Apple, but it has come a long way by and by, and it was founded in today’s West Seattle.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 12, 2022
In a volume of autobiography, he recalled: ‘In the early days I liked Bret Harte . . . but by and by I got over it.’
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2019
For knowing people of faith who aid those in need — the genesis, by and by, of the Salvation Army’s red kettles and faithful bell ringers, and the blessings from Catholic Charities.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 22, 2018
Mr. Jaggers was querulous and angry with me for having “let it slip through my fingers,” and said we must memorialise by and by, and try at all events for some of it.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Teen magazines thus urge their advertisers to pursue the consumer "not in the sweet by-and-by, but in the much sweeter now-and-now."
From Time Magazine Archive
Leon allows only a misty glimpse of the sweet by-and-by.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I plan to attempt it again by-and-by," he told reporters.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Highty-tighty! Is that the way you take my advice, Miss? You’ll be sorry for it by-and-by, when you’ve tried love in a cottage and found it a failure.”
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
You’ll see that I’m right, by-and-by, and thank me for it...” she began solemnly.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
