fornent
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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 St. John G. (St. John Greer) Ervine
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 Sir John Alexander Hammerton
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 Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
When the door was put ajee, and the furm set fornent the 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, written by himself by David Macbeth Moir
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 Horace Waller
