He was sittin 'behind the counter upon the lang three-leggit stool that stood fornent Mr. Weft's desk, and was turning ower the leaves of his ledger, wi' a look which, for auld-fashioned sagaciousness, was wonderfu 'to behold. ❋ Various (N/A)
We came up over the last of the three lonely hills, with bare moorlands and peat hags fornent us, and away below the sea, and I held on for the house on the moor that once was McCurdy's hut. ❋ John Sillars (N/A)
I fear me the town had taken some of the game out of me, for when I saw the big dark horse flatten his ears, the wicked eyes rolling, and the great fore-hoofs drumming on the road, ready to leap and batter the woman and her bairn to a bloody pulp fornent me, my stomach turned, as we say, and I felt sick and giddy. ❋ John Sillars (N/A)
I think truly there was not much sleep for Margaret, even as she said, for did not I hear her moving, and I would be thinking of her turning and twisting fornent the image-glass. ❋ John Sillars (N/A)
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! ❋ St. John G. Ervine (1927)
I wondered sair as I sat there fornent the eyes o 'Nerli. ❋ Unknown (1871)
When the door was put ajee, and the furm set fornent the fire, I gave ❋ David Macbeth Moir (1824)
Nae doubt their claiths will be very grand, wi 'their crowns on their heads, and their sceptres in their hands, like the great King Ahasuerus when he sate upon his royal throne fornent the gate of his house, as we are told in Scripture. ❋ Unknown (1822)
Nae doubt their claiths will be very grand, wi’ their crowns on their heads, and their sceptres in their hands, like the great King Ahasuerus when he sate upon his royal throne fornent the gate of his house, as we are told in Scripture. ❋ Unknown (2007)
a sudden I saw this place fornent my eyes, and I just went in, and she was there by her lone. ❋ St. John G. Ervine (1927)
It seems terrible silly, and it would be awful if the hero come on a minute or two late and the girl was ate up fornent your eyes! " ❋ St. John G. Ervine (1927)
Poor Mary lies on Shupanga brae, 'and beeks fornent the sun.' “ ❋ Blaikie, William G. (1880)
Poor Mary lies on Shupanga brae, “and beeks fornent the sun.” [ ❋ Ed (1874)
Honor that Misther Furkisson is to be a witness fornent me agin? " ❋ Unknown (1853)
Poor Mary lies on Shupanga brae, "and beeks fornent the sun." [ ❋ David Livingstone (1843)
"Oh, then, if they were in swarms fornent me, devil receave the prisoner ❋ Charles James Lever (1839)
"I disremember now what passed between us as to words -- but I know I had a duck-egg in my hand, and when she spoke, I raised my arm, and nailed -- poor Larry Tracy, our servant boy, between the two eyes with it, although the crathur was ating his dinner quietly fornent me, not saying ❋ William Carleton (1831)
"When we got the plunder, the time we drove them through the Jarseys it was, I had to back the baste up to the dead; for the divil the foot would she move, fornent the firing, wid her eyes open. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)
