Lord Harry n.
see Old Harry n. (1)
In exclamations
a mild oath.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Madam Fickle V ii: By the Lord Harry I’ll kiss thee for this. | |
| Match in Newgate IV i: By the Lord Harry, you are the proudest, scoffing, scurvie, idle [etc]. | |
| Old Bachelor II i: By the Lord Harry I’ll stay no longer. | |
| Devil to Pay II i: I am boozy, by the Lord Harry! | |
| Braggadochio 78: By the Lord Harry, Mr Sharper, he’s as brave a Fellow as Cannibel. | |
| Englishman Returned from Paris in Works (1799) I 111: By the lord Harry, here are his wings. | |
| Mayor of Garrat in Works (1799) I 174: sneak: I would so swinge and leather my lambkin; God, I would so curry and claw her. bruin: By the Lord Harry, she richly deserves it. | |
| Sporting Mag. July VIII 185/2: By the Lord Harry, I ought to be set down as a statue – as a block. | |
| Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 6: By the Lord Harry, he gets worse and worse. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Down-Easters I 93: If you don’t, I will, by the Lord Harry! | |
| Land Sharks and Sea Gulls I 142: By the Lord Harry, there’s no standing that squinting beggar’s lubberly lip. | |
| Sixteen-String Jack 114: No, by the Lord Harry! | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Central Qld Herald (Rocckhampton, Qld) 27 Dec. 27/4: I am feeling terrible crook. I look into this cove’s eyes and by the living Harry, I know it’s all up with me. | |
| (con. 1820s) Settlers & Convicts 318: By the Lord Harry, you look as if you'd been boarding with — (the Sydney jailer) for three months. | |
| General Bounce (1891) 98: Well ridden, by the Lord Harry! | |
| Queen of the South 105: It’s the priest. Run, Nat, quick! run, or, by the lord Harry, Nettle ’ll limb him. | |
| Puck on Pegasus 90: He’ll win, by the Lord Harry! | |
| Slaver’s Adventures 345: ‘By the Lord Harry, I’ll try it,’ the mate cried. | |
| Won in a Canter III 120: ‘Take yourself out of the neighbourhood [...] or, by the living Harry. I’ll make it too hot for you’. | |
| Dick Temple III 158: ‘Your humble servant has been fishing [...] and by the Lord Harry he has hooked gold-bags!’. | |
| Soldiers’ Stories and Sailors’ Yarns 79: By the Lord Harry! voices below, and lights! | |
| Dead Bird (Sydney) 28 Sept. 2/2: By the Lord Harry this is rich. | |
| ‘Word to Texas Jack’ in Roderick (1967–9) I 65: Texas Jack your are amusin’. By Lord Harry how I laughed. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Maori Maid 167: By the lord Harry, I’ll give Jack beans if he has! | |
| Tommy Atkins of the Ramchunders 125: ‘By the Lord Harry [...] I’d have rather taken a licking than [...] that look and them words’. | |
| In Roaring Fifties 170: By the Lord Harry, they’ve nabbed him! | |
| Devil of Dartmoor in Illus. Police News 17 Sept. 12/2: ‘[H]allo!, by the lord Harry, is that isn’t a screw (warder)’. | |
| ‘Shearer and Rouseabout’ in Life in the Aus. Backblocks 234: Some hardened sinner demands, ‘What d’yer call this, cook? Goat, or a hunk of a cart-’orse? Dog scratch me, it’s as tough as Mother Lord Harry!’. | |
| ‘The Princess’ Complete Short Stories (1993) III 2475: By the Lord Harry I was so good it hurt! | |
| Timber Wolves 314: By the Lord Harry, the wind’s changing! | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Ulysses 382: By the Lord Harry green is the grass that grows on the ground. | |
| Rocky Road 122: ‘Lodgers, by the Lord Harry!’ snorted Mr. Devany. | |
| (con. 1830s–60s) All That Swagger 140: If you have incurred anny responsibility, by the Lord Harry, me boy, you’ll discharge it. | |
| Black Cargo 183: By the living Harry, I’ll give him a wild bush garden! | |
| Slanguage. |