fornent

Example Sentences

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Bonaparte gathered his host fornent the English coast, and the government at London were in terror of their lives for an invasion.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 04 — Fiction by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

Home went the ball fornent the stick, Dead as a corp, or Julius Cæsar, Baalam's ass, or Nebuchenezzar.

From A Golfing Idyll or The Skipper's Round with the Deil On the Links of St. Andrews by Flint, Violet

Poor Mary lies on Shupanga brae, "and beeks fornent the sun."

From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by Waller, Horace

By the time you're her age, she'll have a child or two, and'll mebbe be feeling very sorry for herself … and you'll have the world fornent you still!

From The Foolish Lovers by Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer)

When the door was put ajee, and the furm set fornent p. 76the fire, I gave Isaac a dram to keep his heart up on such a cold stormy night. 

From The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith by Hardie, Charles Martin