fornent

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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

"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

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