From Shakespeare to Milton by way of the English Bible, our language has been shaped by humanist ideas.

Intensity was more usually reached by way of the solemn than by way of the brilliant.

“I always go over the wall, by way of the plum tree,” said Matilda.

In 1919, demobilisation specials from Purfleet, Essex, to the North, usually made up of nondescript, almost paintless or grey stock which had seen long wartime service, chalked with slogans, were worked through by way of Bromley and the North London line […].

My name is Elle Woods, Boston by way of Bel Air.

By way of apology, he tried to be gallant.

By way of qualification, I should point out that…

Thus much may serve by way of proem: / Proceed we therefore to our poem.

Why they hesitated I never could tell, unless they did it by way of a joke.

By way of contrast there is an air of finality about the closure of the Welsh Highland Railway.

“So what's new in the whiskey business?” one of the fat men finally says by way of welcome, […]

Thoreau, too, come to think of it, was, by way of being a prophet, a pioneer in this Emancipation of Man from Bothery.

"From what you tell me, he's by way of being the brains of the family."

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