Foreby

'You'll be wanting brothers and sisters for him foreby, I warrant.' ❋ Chadwick, Elizabeth (2004)

He thinks he hasn't anythin 'foreby he can't see it. ❋ Ruth Sawyer (1925)

An 'the stars will be out there makin' it bright -- so bright -- foreby the stars are the faeries 'old rush-lights. ❋ Ruth Sawyer (1925)

An 'ses ah,' Weel, if ah hed a nice braw husband to gang to the kirk wi 'me foreby, it's a braw spicy goon ah'd be wearin' -- an 'ah'm thinkin' o 'gettin' a gray poplin the day, mebby. ' ❋ Mary Esther Miller MacGregor (1918)

Ah've got a buggie, ye ken, an 'a coo o' ma ain ', foreby a settin' ❋ Mary Esther Miller MacGregor (1918)

"Ah wush we could hae a bit strathspey frae the pipes to march wi 'to the kirk, foreby." ❋ Mary Esther Miller MacGregor (1918)

And on the morn next, S. Fiacre took his leave of S. Pharon, which gave to him his blessing, and when S. Fiacre had received it, he departed and went to the place beforesaid, where he founded a church in the honour and reverence of our Blessed Lady, and beyond it, a little way thence, he builded a little house wherein he dwelled, and there harboured he the poor that passed foreby. ❋ 1230-1298 (1900)

A clerk then that passed there foreby, heard their sighing, and having pity on them that were nigh dead, kneeled down to the earth, and remembering the new canonisation of the blessed S. Louis, sore weeping, made for the foresaid men his prayer to him, and after his prayer was done he saw folk coming that way. ❋ 1230-1298 (1900)

'I have more than one gossip there, foreby Sister Avice, who was godchild to Aunt Cis; and if the good lady would wish to see the hospital, I would bear her company with all my heart.' ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)

So the Scotch giant ran out of the house, and never stopped to eat or drink until he got back to his own hills, foreby he was nearly drowned in having mistaken his passage across the Channel in his great hurry. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

"Tuts, lass," she said, "the warm weather 'll be along foreby, an' she'll pick up. ❋ Mary Esther Miller MacGregor (1918)

"Murder and turf!" cried the man, "but that was the devil's own plaister that you gave me here for my back, and it left me as raw as a turnip, taking every bit of my skin off me entirely, foreby my lying in bed for ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

I hae mair ado than I can manage the day, foreby ganging to houk up hunder-year-auld-banes. " ❋ James Hogg (1802)