These inconsequent oaths and no less incomprehensible bywords, fit only now-a-days to undetermine critics and to baffle commentary, are really the reflection of a tinsel finery that was no doubt borne aloft and bravely carried in its day.
"A Cursory History of Swearing"
Julian Sharman
If notoriety can gratify you, by Jove, you have it; for Charles O'Malley and his man Mickey Free are bywords in every mess from Villa Formosa to the rear-guard.
"Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2)"
Charles Lever
But what of riven households, broken faith - bywords that cling through all men's years And drag them surely down to shame and death?
"New-Poems"
Stevenson, Robert Louis