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c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1442 (MED) Þe jueles out of Jerusalem..Bi þe syde of þe sale were semely arayed.

1482 W. Caxton tr. Higden's Prolicionycion i. xxvii. f. xxxviii^v In the weste Occean acquytanicus, that is the see that is by the side of guyan.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. iii. f. 13^v Saylinge..by the syde of Cuba..he espied..a large hauen.

1584 B. R. tr. Herodotus Famous Hyst. ii. f. 77^v Fast by the side of thys city ranne a swift and violent riuer.

1638 A. Read Man. Anat. Body of Man (new ed.) iv. v. 488 The one [sc. artery] passeth by the side of the outward part of tibia.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 159 Our Men..shot a Brace of Deer, as they were feeding by the Side of a swamp.

1824 S. E. Ferrier Inheritance I. xvii. 188 Mr R. sat by the side of the expiring fire.

1873 A. H. Leonowens Romance of Harem xx. 165 A magnificent new Buddhist temple is seen..close by the side of an ancient one.

1944 B. M. Bowen Strange Script. iv. 57 She selects two of the largest [broken pieces of pottery]: one she places by the side of the well.

2004 Trail May 44/1 This is no learned tome..—more of a compendium of brain-floss to store by the side of the loo.

1779 E. Fay Let. 28 June in Orig. Lett. from India (1817) 44 The Buchetta, an appenine mountain, by the side of which Mont Cenis would appear contemptible.

1832 R. Cattermole Beckett 205 The..noble union of the meek and manly qualities..that characterised chivalry, and..displays it to so much advantage by the side of modern civilisation.

1909 Daily Graphic 26 July 10/1 He..made a flight of twenty-five miles across country; but that..pales into insignificance by the side of the Channel flight.

2004 I. H. Birchall Sartre against Stalinism iv. 40 Socialisme et liberté was tiny and insignificant by the side of the far more disciplined and well-organised PCF [sc. the French Communist Party] machine.

1796 G. Colman Iron Chest Pref. p. xiii Had I..look'd on the thing..by itself, why the thing is a good-natured thing; but I must be putting other circumstances by the side of it.

1814 J. Rodman tr. Comm. Code France 84 Gentlemen, The code of commerce rises by the side of the Code Napoleon.

1839 S. Laing Tour in Sweden 1838 i. 8 The canoe exists by the side of the steam vessel, barbarism by the side of civilized appearances.

1879 Academy 27 Dec. 467 [Wurtz] asserts that although antimony is usually regarded as a metal, it must, in a true chemical classification, find its place by the side of arsenic, phosphorus, and nitrogen.

1931 O. Jespersen in S.P.E. Tract (Soc. for Pure Eng.) No. XXXVI. 524 By the side of the simple tenses we have in English expanded tenses, e.g.: simple: he works, he worked, he has worked; expanded: he is working, he was working, he has been working.

1988 A. V. Subramanian Aesthetics of Wonder ii. 7 A poet's mind remains today the least explored part of man's world, by the side of which the darkest Africa must be regarded as exhaustively explored and fully mapped.

2002 Glot Internat. 6 272/2 The separation into pitch accents..and boundary tones..harks back to..juncture phonemes..which existed by the side of the pitch phonemes.