forby
preposition
close by; near.
forbye
-
a variation of
forby.
Example Sentences
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"Donald will never want money while I live; forbye, the violin in his hand is a sure fortune."
From Playing With Fire by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
A wee, shrunken, puny infant he was, but he hes been a bit too much for us all—and there’s seven big men in our family, forbye mysel’ and Christine.
From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
I'm willin, in consideration o' their services, to gie ye a bit sma cot to live in, and ye'll never want a pickle meal, and a soup o' milk forbye.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Alexander Leighton
But I’ll be perfec’ly honest with ye: forbye that, he was to have the selling of the lad in Caroliny, whilk would be as muckle mair, but no’ from my pocket, ye see.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 10 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
"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 S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
