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by-and-by

noun as in future

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“There is a lovelier country even than that, where we shall go, by-and-by, when we are good enough,” answered Meg with her sweetest voice.

I refused to say it the southern hymn way—“the sweet by-and-by.”

Congress lets multinationals earn profits today but pay their taxes by-and-by.

“You will see by-and-by the evidence upon which I rely.”

No," he replied; "I will come back by-and-by.

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