fornent

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"And is it there ye're lying on the broad of yer back, and me as sick as a dog fornent ye?"

From The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 1 by Lever, Charles James

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

Whiles I wad sleep and whiles wad wake, an’ whiles was mair than surly; I wondered sair as I sat there fornent the eyes o’ Nerli.

From Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)

Sure enough, on looking round, there was the kelpie stan’in’ in what they ca’ a fause ford, just fornent the auld kirk. 

From Folk-Lore and Legends Scotland by Anonymous

Sure enough, on looking round, there was the kelpie stan'in in what they ca' a fause ford, just fornent the auld kirk.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 by Various