fornent

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Home went the ball fornent the stick, Dead as a corp, or Julius Cæsar, Baalam's ass, or Nebuchenezzar.

From A Golfing Idyll or The Skipper's Round with the Deil On the Links of St. Andrews by Flint, Violet

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.

From The McBrides A Romance of Arran by Sillars, John

Poor Mary lies on Shupanga brae, "and beeks fornent the sun."

From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by Waller, Horace

When the door was put ajee, and the furm set fornent the fire, I gave Isaac a dram to keep his heart up on such a cold stormy night. 

From The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself by Moir, David Macbeth

Bonaparte gathered his host fornent the English coast, and the government at London were in terror of their lives for an invasion.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 04 — Fiction by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir