There's an act in the Laird o' Grant's court, that no abuneeleven speak at ance.
See as it's glooming to seaward abune yon sloop in the bay; that's no for naething neither.
She was the tallest woman I ever saw, and her hair was as black as midnight, unless where it was grey, and she had a scar abune the brow that ye might hae laid the lith of your finger in.
A' this time the minister was lookin owre his window, richt abune the lovers, and heard every word o' what they said; but he keepit quiet till the argument should come to a crisis.
Being brocht up a littleabune the common, she cannot be asked to enter into the service of ony o' our neebors; yet, I see nae other way o't.
Ye may save your siller, and no be abune an hour langer tarried, by takin' a seat wi' me in the gig I hae in wi' me.
Out and spake the bonny bird That flew abune her head; "Lady!
Out and spake the bonny bird That flew abune their heads.
Will this stain, d'ye think, ever be forgotten, as lang as our heads are abune the grund?
Mrs. Glass, "what for needed he to have telled that of his ain country, and to the English folk abune a'?
On the fore front o' that castell feir, Twa unicorns were gaye to see; The picture of a knight, and a ladye bright, And the grene hollin abune their brie.
Seek ye the bank abune the mill, In the lowlands of Buleighan; And there you'll find Sir James the Rose, Lying sleeping in his brechan.
They sought the bank abune the mill, In the lowlands of Buleighan, And there they found Sir James the Rose, Lying sleeping in his brechan.
If it be not abune twa dollars, Alison," said the old gentleman, very reluctantly.
See as it's glooming to seaward abune yon sloop in the bay--that's no for naething neither.
Then for meat and liquor, ye may have the best, and I never charge abune twenty per cent.
As he marched home from the little public-house down at Blackhillock, with “the malt abune the meal,” his effort to appear preternaturally sober was quite a spectacle.
But d'ye ken the langnebbit hill that cocks its tap abune the Clachlands heid?
It maun be a grown man, or I winna tak in han' to baud her abune the watter.
But I'll tell ye what I hae hard: I hae hard the flails gaein' thud, thud, abune my heid.
It scarce rises abune the scaur in ony but ae pairt, an' there it 's but a feow feet o' a wa'.
It's jist what ye was sayin,' my leddy: sic a pomp as yon bude to hing abune a gran' battle some gait or ither.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abune" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
