forbye
- a variation of forby.
Example Sentences
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There's mair nor a packet o' candles in the press, forbye a half loaf if ye are hungrysome i' the nicht-time.
From Deep Moat Grange by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
For less will not serve her, and forbye a bairn is only an expense and an eating up o' good meat in any man's house!'
From Deep Moat Grange by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
"Them that steals hings in a tow—an' forbye, burns in muckle hell—bleezin' up in fuffin lowes juist as the beardie auld man Sandy Peden said."
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)
There's naebody else stannin' forbye that man Pozzlethaite, and he disna verra weel ken what he is himsel'.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various
And forbye, I think Elsie is far from well.
From Deep Moat Grange by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
