His inexplicable debts were a bywordin his circle; he was a debonair young man.
His name, very unjustly, became a byword for ambition and religious cant.
Each in his turn domineered over his doting master, and made himself a byword for insolence and self-seeking.
For the young prince's dissolute habits, wanton thriftlessness, and unfilial conduct towards his father rendered him a byword among right-minded men.
From that day the byword with which they had formerly designated Felix changed.
He must end his days in a way which has become a byword and a shame for every right-thinking man.
If he did what was in his heart, he could make him a byword and a hissing through the whole country; but that, again, meant disgrace for Mary, and he had sworn that she must suffer nothing.
Twelve years were spent by Jean Francois in Paris--years of biting poverty and grim endurance: the sport and prey of Fate: the butt and byword of the fashionable, artistic world.
Such a one stirs up wrath and rivalry, and is the butt and byword of all others who collect spoons.
Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
The Confederation became at once a byword and a sorrow.
You will degrade the national name, and make it a byword of reproach.
When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
Yet when we mention his name, we call up the remembrance of only one vile deed, one treacherous act--an act that has made his name a curse and a byword throughout the ages.
Bowing in the temple of Rimmon has become a byword and a reproach.
And I made haircloth my garment: and I became a byword to them.
Thou hast made us a byword among the Gentiles: a shaking of the head among the people.
If this is what you mean, I denounce you as unworthy to be called a man, and I name your loud protestations of religion no more than a hissing and a byword before the ungodly you profess to despise.
I feel like a condemned coward, my name a byword for the rabble, being here in such comparative safety, when, in honor, I should be lying beside my comrades.
Even now we witness the sad spectacle of God's own people--the very people to whom we have been referring--being made a byword and a hissing among the nations.
Yet he had thrown down the gauntlet, and if he weakened now and quit his name would be a byword on the desert.
If, unknown to them, he had found access to large sums and had come there with the money on his person, then the acceptance of his bet would simply result in a farce and make the bank a byword and a mocking.
Tom of Bedlam'; a byword for an inveterate drunkard, alluding to an old interesting song describing the feelings of a poor maniac whose frenzy had been induced by intoxication, and who escaped from Bedlam.
FN#192] And if thou wilt not be forbidden from this talk, I will make thee a byword and a reproach among folk.
Suffice it that he was torn asunder by wild horses, and his name remains in France a byword for all disloyalty and treachery.
From this circumstance has arisen the byword which so greatly annoys the English: "Englishman, show your tail!
Keep a sure watch over a shameless daughter: lest at anytime she make thee become a laughingstock to thy enemies, and a byword in the city, and a reproach among the people, and she make thee ashamed before all the multitude.
He hath made me as it were a byword of the people, and I am an example before them.
And thou shalt be lost, as a proverb and a byword to all people, among whom the Lord shall bring thee in.
I will take away Israel from the face of the land which I have given them; and the temple which I have sanctified to my name, I will cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb, and a byword among all people.
Rejoice when evil men shall drive you from their ways and cause your name to be a hiss and byword in the street.
After the affair with Hobnell, Pen was pronounced to be a murderer as well as a profligate, and his name became a name of terror and a byword in Clavering.
This monster, a byword all over Suffolk, was probably at one time the figure-head of a ship, and local tradition ascribes it to one of the Dutch warships destroyed in the battle of Sole Bay, fought off Southwold in 1672.
A century or two ago all good and respectable Britons avoided the theatre, and the drama in England became a byword for immorality and licentiousness.
A very rich man with us is all the more ridiculous for his more millions; he becomes a byword if not a hissing; he is the meat of the paragrapher, the awful example of the preacher; his money is found to smell of his methods.
Standing between the two armies they spoke as follows: "Kinsmen and allies, in the name of that harmony which has hitherto prevailed among us, let us do nothing that will make us the byword of our slaves.
Your name will be a byword in every saloon and bunk-house in the country!
