ayont
Britishadverb
Etymology
Origin of ayont
a, from Old English an on + yont yon
Example Sentences
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Guid claret best keeps out the cauld, An' drives awa' the winter soon: It makes a man baith gash and bauld, An' heaves his saul ayont the moon.
From Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant
Then he lifted his chair, and placed it before the open door, saying emphatically as he did so— Lands may be fair ayont the sea, But Scotland’s hills and lochs for me!
From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
See ye the corn-rigs up ayont us there, on the Duchrae Hill—the hand of God is in the sweet springing of them, when the sun shines upon them after rain.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
O years ayont, O years awa’, My lads, ye’ll mind whate’er befa’— My lads, ye’ll mind on the bield o’ the law, When the m�ne was shinin’ clearly.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
“They that have had a guid schoolin’ and do nae mair, whatever they do, they have done; but him that has aye something ayont need never be weary.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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