By and bye.

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1786.  Oh! he say, land dear now, bumbye buy him five dollars nacre. [Negro talk.]—Exchange Advertiser (Boston), Oct. 19: from Newport Mercury.

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1824.  Well, bimeby he took notion to hab my darter…. Well, bimeby I found em out, and says I, Chloe, you shan’t hab him. [A negro in New England loq.]—Nantucket Inquirer, Jan. 5.

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1825.  Bym by; naiteral enough; there they go! all a qurrellin’.—John Neal, ‘Brother Jonathan,’ i. 106.

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1825.  You’ll believe what I say, by’m by.—Id., i. 195.

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1857.  It’s a thing that’ll come round byme-bye, for a man that straightens hoops can’t work ten years at the business without flippin’ his own nose.—J. G. Holland, ‘The Bay-Path,’ p. 156.

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1857.  Byme-by I looked up, and there stood the widow, crying.—Id., p. 334.

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1862.  

        Your “You ’ll see nex’ time!” an’ “Look out bumby!”
’Most ollers ends in eatin’ umble-pie.
Lowell, ‘Biglow Papers,’ 2nd S., No. 2.    

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1878.  Bimeby one chap says: ‘Oh, yes, I know Mr. Darnell.’—J. H. Beadle, ‘Western Wilds,’ p. 28.

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1878.  I got strong pretty fast, and bimeby along came dad huntin’ for me.—Id., p. 31.

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