Read full poem →If you can manage to see me before going off to Dartmoor,
Come by Tuesday’s coach through Glencoe (you have not seen it),
Stop at the ferry below, and ask your way (you will wonder,
Dictionary Entry
To obtain; to get, especially by chance or involuntarily.
In a Sentence
“A loyal friend is hard to come by. Somehow he came by a substantial fortune.”
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Poetry examples for “come by”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Little girls leapt from their beds to see
Spring come by with her painted wagons,
Colored wagons creaking with wonder--
Read full poem →My creatures travail and wait;
His couriers come by squadrons,
He comes not to the gate.
Read full poem →they flye so hye and builde so far of, that they be very hard
to come by. Yet welfare the gentle goose which bringeth
to a man even to hys doore so manye excedynge commodi-