by the laws

interjection

An exclamation of surprise.

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Meanings

interjection
  1. An exclamation of surprise.

    "By the laws, sir," said Jack, "yez live to a powerful great age here undher the wather! Ye knew my grandfather, and he's dead and gone betther nor sixty years."

    1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 532
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