But an honest man's aboon his might; Guid faith, he mauna fa' that!
Could na say just preceesely--Sunday seldom camaboon the pass of Bally-Brough.
Ye'll no hae mickle better whisky than that aboon the Pass?
This happened a short way aboon the Netherbow, and my grandfather stopped to speak with him; but there was a haste and confusion in his manner which made him rather eschew this civility.
He niver had a mind aboon sheep, hedn't Jose, an' sheep is poor wastrels when all's said.
O they rade on, and farther on, And they waded through rivers aboon the knee, And they saw neither sun nor moon, But they heard the roaring of the sea.
Of what kind wisdom think ye I'm possest, That lifts my character aboon the rest?
Hoo'll happen be a bit aboon yo'--high-minded like.
Janet has kilted her green kirtle, A little aboon her knee, And she has snooded her yellow hair, A little aboon her bree.
Janet has kilted her green kirtle, A little aboon her knee; And she has snooded her yellow hair, A little aboon her bree, And she is to her fathers ha' As fast as she can hie.
We pick'd a little bit o' graand, Whear grass and daisies grew, An' trees wi spreeadin boughs aboon Ther solemn shadows threw.
The lid will be aboon it and screwed down to-morrow, I dar' say.
Then out it speaks a bonny bird, That flew aboon their head; "Keep well, keep well your green claithing Frae ae drap o' his bluid.
He's in the bankaboon the mill, In the lawlands o' Buleighan.
In troth, man, an' there isna ane o' my name aboon mysel.
But I will seek out the Robin's nest, An' the nest of the ouzel shy, For the siller hair that is beddit there Maun wave aboon the sky.
God guide us, sirs, there's the weight of a mill-stane on aboon the links o' my neck.
I ken whaur's a snawy hawthornaboon the burn in Swanston Dell.
Did ye ken the Laird Provost, Maister Chambers, is intendin' to knock a lang hole aboon the tap o' the Coogate wynds?
But, however it happened, about midnight we baith awakened mair nor half scomfisht, and there was the roof in a bright lowe aboon our heads.
Janet has kilted her green kirtle A little aboon her knee, And she has snooded her yellow hair A little aboon her bree, And she is on to Miles Cross, As fast as she can hie.
He gae to me a gay gold ring, An bade me keep it aboon a' thing; 68 'Three lauchters o his yellow hair, For fear that we suld neer meet mair.
He courted the eldest with broach and knife, But he loed the youngestaboon his life.
He gied the eldest a gay gold ring, But he loed the youngest aboon a' thing.
Janet has kilted her green kirtle A little aboon her knee, And she has snooded her yellow hair A little aboon her bree, And she is to her father's ha, As fast as she can hie.
Janet has kilted her green kirtle A little aboon her knee, And she has snooded her yellow hair A little aboon her bree, And she is on to her father's ha, As fast as she can hie.
Janet has kilted her green kirtle A little aboon her knee, And she has snooded her yellow hair A little aboon her bree, And she's away to Carterhaugh, As fast as she can hie.
Janet has kilted her green kirtle A little aboon her knee, And she has broded her yellow hair A little aboon her bree, And she's awa to Carterhaugh, As fast as she can hie.
For on every finger she has a ring, An on the mid-finger she has three, An there's as meikle goud aboon her brow As woud buy an earldome o lan to me.
Janet has kilted her green kirtle A little aboon her knee, And she has snooded her yellow hair A little aboon her bree, And she's awa to Carterhaugh, As fast as she can hie.
He gae to me a gay gold ring, And bade me keep it aboon a' thing.
She has cut aff her yellow locks, A littleaboon her ee, And she is on to Willie's lyke, As fast as gang could she.
O they rade on, and farther on, And they waded thro rivers aboonthe knee, And they saw neither sun nor moon, But they heard the roaring of the sea.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aboon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
