“Meshisha is a by-blow, gotten in an evil hour,” says he.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman on the March]

As you can see for yourself, he left Pinewood to that chit, his by-blow.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Man's Mistress]

I was beginning to wonder if Custer wasn't perhaps some by-blow of the Flashman family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman And The Redskins]

Some poor maidservant's by-blow by her master, or her master's son, or a passing guest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sanctuary Sparrow]

His mother was a Welsh maidservant at Mallilie, and like so many such, bore her master a by-blow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monk's Hood]

It is your feeling that she is the by-blow of either Lang or Imar, her mother having been a mortal woman?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Petty Pewter Gods]

Unlike other kingdoms, it is not acceptable for the King to rid himself of her, or select a-favored by-blow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prison Of Souls]

Certainly they're being kept away from the minute-by-minute, the blow - by-blow, of the prime minister's condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 18, 2005] Reference

There was something about the way he phrased things that made Alaire wonder: Is he some by-blow of the royal family too?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prison Of Souls]

She trembled lest the child ask what a "by-blow" was, but Christabel merely nodded and began eagerly to stack the blocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daring Deception]

Speck Daniels, another suspected Watson by-blow, possesses his father's meanness as well as his shrewd sense of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Epic of the Everglades] Reference

Yet that is what has happened, and it is not a cynical by-blow on the part of Dryden; the last line is entirely rousing and single-hearted.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Courage is not solely for men, but it is mainly for men."] Reference

Stephen is supposedly some sort of semi-royal by-blow: brought up for payment, discreetly, as their own, by discreet people in a small town.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cromwell & Wolsey: From 'Wolf Hall'] Reference

Although rumor had it in latter days that I was the by-blow of some wizard, the truth is that my father was a harnessmaker in the palace stables, as was his father before him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conqueror's Moon]

Duke of Gloucester, she learned, and was notoriously a by-blow of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chivalry] Reference

Duke of Gloucester, she was informed, and notoriously a by-blow of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chivalry] Reference

I had been the by-blow of a Running Footman promoted into carrying of a link.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...] Reference

He realized that he must die, and the instincts of his race -- he was a remote by-blow of royalty -- taught him to make an ending in a manner becoming a gentleman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion] Reference

"A by-blow of the Lacy clan by a younger son of the house.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Virgin In The Ice]

Another woman might have resented having her sister-in-law’s by-blow foisted upon her a year after her wedding, but not Sissy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hellion in Her Bed] Reference

“I can’t bring myself to talk to her about it… it’s why I thought she might be Osman’s by-blow when Furman said she was.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Command Decision]

"The first time this year the wind's fair to take us up the River Erd without tacking and some nobleman's by-blow decides to hold us up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Isles] Reference

You are just m'father's by-blow.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Man's Mistress]

A by-blow of the house of Clare.    From Wordnik.com.  [A River So Long] Reference

Cruelty lashed from her: "'Your' house, by-blow?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Patrolman]

"-- or maybe he has a by-blow stashed away somewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Past Through Tomorrow]

A by-blow?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unforgiven]

Or by-blow of Sirk?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dwellers in the Mirage] Reference

A marquess’s son take in some brewster’s by-blow?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hellion in Her Bed] Reference

Yes, Billy Budd was a foundling, a presumable by-blow, and, evidently, no ignoble one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Billy Budd] Reference