His hude was reid, heklit atour his croun, Lyk to ane poeit of the auld fassoun.
Atour his belt his lyart lokkis lay Felterit unfair, ourfret with froistis hoir; His garmound and his +gyte full gay of gray; His widderit weid fra him the wind out woir.
Bot, gif my power nocht sufficient be, Or gret eneuch, quhy suld I dreid or spar To purches help, fursuyth, atour alquhar?
Laute he lufit atour all thing; Falsade, tresoune, and felony, He stude agayne ay ythandly.
He held evir agane the King, 464 And hatit hyme atourall thing.
The Bruysis folk full hardely Schawyt thair gret chevalry: And he him-selff, atour the lave, Sa hard and hevy dyntis gave, That quhar he come thai maid him way.
He had nocht with him atour ten Of all men that war with him thar.
Walter Stewardis gret bounte Atour the laif commendit he, 920 For the richt gret defens he maid At the yhet, quhar men brynt had The brig, as yhe herd me devis.
And quhen he wyst that it was sua, Atour all other he wes mast wa, And maid so woundir evill cher That all wounderit that by him wer.
Bath hye and law, the land wes then All occupyit with Inglis men; That dyspitit, atour all thing, 596 Robert the Bruce the douchty Kyng.
And atour all thing specialy "A wittering heir I sall yhow may, "Quhat end that your purpos sall ta.
Schir Gylys de Argente he set Upon ane half, hys renyhe to get; 175 And of Vallanch Schir Amery On othir half, that wes worthy; For in thair soverane gret bownte Atour the layff affyit he.
And Bannokburn, betuix the brais, Of hors and men so chargit was, That apon drownit hors and men Men mycht pass dry atour it then.
The qwhipe he tuk, syne furth the mar can call; Atour a bray the omast pot gert fall, Brak on the ground.
Atour the dike thai yeid on athir side, 125 Schott doun the wall; no socour was that tyde.
Quhen the brym fayratour the place was past, Than thai with in mycht nothir schwt no cast.
In that forest he likit nocht to bide: Thai bownyt thaim atour Forth for to ride.
Atour the landis he graithit him to gayn, 1710 Sekand the king, als gudly as he may.
For as off wer he was in sumpart yrk, He purpost than to serue God and the kyrk, And for to leyff wndyr hys rychtwyss king; That he desyryt atour all erdly thing.
And eftir sone thar wncle couth thaim ta, Gud Robert Keth, had thaim fra Glaskow toun; Atour the se in Frans he maid thaim boun.
Towart Kyngorn the gaynest way thai ta; 60 Apon the mornatour Forth south thai past; On this wyage thai haistit wondyr fast.
A gudly gyft to Wallace als scho gaiff, A hundreth pownd and mar, atour the layff.
The cler watter culyt the horss sumdeill; Atour the flud he bur him to the land, Syn fell doun dede, and mycht no langar stand.
Vpon the morn, with outyn mar abaid, Atour the mur, quhar thai a tryst had set, Ner Scotlandis Well thair lugyng tuk but let.
Bot thai war rad, and durst nocht weill affy; Wallace in fyr gert set all haistely, Brynt wp the kyrk, and all that was tharin, Atour the roch the laiff ran with gret dyn.
Wp by the hand the gud erll has hyr tayn; Atour the bent to Wallace ar thai gayn.
Arowys thai schot, als fers as ony fyr, Atour the wall, that flawmyt in gret ire, Throuch byrneis brycht, with hedys fyn off steyll.
And eftir sone thar wncle couth thaim ta, Gud Robert Keth, had thaim fra Glaskow toun; Atour the se in Frans he maid thaim boun.
Gif a Prisouner be suorne to hald prisoun, and his takar put him atour his ath in stark prisoun or festnyng, gif it be lefull to him to escape, and brek presoun.
Madame de Maintenon: she treated her with marks of distinction, and consented to her being appointed second dame d'atour to the Dauphine of Bavaria; so that she had now nothing to do with Montespan.
Lady Gordon, the grandaunt of Lord Huntley, was my dame d'atour for a considerable period.
Her mother, Madame de la Vieuville, was dame d'atour to the Duchesse de Berri.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "atour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
