Citations:byspell

English citations of byspell

• 1845, Henry Hammond, A paraphrase and annotations upon all the books of the New :

  [...] signifies a byword or proverb, or, as it is still used in the north, byspell.

• 1897, Lord Ernest William Hamilton, The Outlaws of the Marches:

  Angus, in particular, I thought was none too well beloved of many present, and the King’s dislike of him was as marked and clear to all as was his liking for his cousin Lord Bothwell; for cousins they surely were in spite of my lord’s father being but a byspell so to speak.