Neyther wold I that your grace should fear that this your humiliation befoir GOD should in any case infirm or weaken your Iust and lauthfull authoritie befoir men.
Aberdene, wnder the conduct and gyding of the Dewill present withe you, all in company, playing befoir yow on his kynd of instrumentis.
Answeris S{r} James balfo{r} can better tell nor he And knew better and befoir the deponer yof.
It may be my gude Lord governor that the maner of the earle of Gowrie and his brotheris deathbefoir writtin be so far frome yor honoure in mynd that yt (?
I vill accorde, incase ye vill stand to and beir a part: and befoir ye resolve, meet me and M.
Befoir his curpall[1301] wes a crak Culd na man tell quha maid it, For lawchter, Vp at Dalkeith that day.
Lo, how that little God of Loue Befoir me thair apperid!
Beside Montruill upon the grene Befoir ten houris I sal be sene.
As wax befoir the fyre, I felt My hart within my bosome melt And pece and pece decay.
Thow can tell eneugh yf thow lyke," said the mother to her afterwards, "that could tell that my bairne wold die so long befoir the tyme.
This we could nott omitt of this wourthy woman, who gave sa notable a confessioun, befoir that the great lycht of Goddis word did universallie schyne throwght this realme.
The one parte of the Frenche wer upoun the north towardis the sea, the other parte marched frome Leyth to Edinburgh; and yitt thei marched so, that we could have foughten neather cumpany, befoir that thei should have joyned.
The first day befoir nune the auditouris[361] was reassonable, and yitt nothing in comparisone of that which used to be in that kyrk.
Than upon him sho kest up baith her ene, And with ane blenk it com in-to his thocht That he sum-tyme hir face befoir had sene; 500 But sho was in sic ply he knew hir nocht.
Befoir Cupide vailing his cap a lyte, Speiris the caus of that vocacioun; And he anon shew his intencioun.
And thus the martial Erle of Marr Marcht with his men in richt array; Befoir the enemie was aware, His banner bauldly did display.
This satisfyed, for that tyme, the hoill assemblie: And this was the practise of the Quene and of hir Counsall, with fair wordis to dryve tyme, as befoir we have said.
The Proveist of Lyncluden,[908] Dowglass of Drumlangrik by surname, was the man that geve the charge that the said Johne should present him self befoir the Quene: quhilk he did sone after dennar.
And so gatt the Devill fredome agane, whair that befoir he durst nott have bene sene in the day lyght upoun the commoun streatis.
The reservation, "befoir the world," is significant.
In witnes quhairof, I have subscryvit thir presentis with my hand, day and place forsaid, befoir ther witnesses above specifiet.
He oft tymmis called nocht comperand beand of befoir divers tymmis monest to desist tharfra under panis of excommunicacion now wordely mentis the sam to be execut aganis hym and sa decretit to be used.
Quhairvpone the king appoynted Patrik, archbischop of St. Androis to teache, bot he wes preuented be Mr. John Covpar minister, quho come befoir and filled the pulpit.
Some of the masters of the Old College also, as Bannatyne has recorded, hated the plain-speaking reformer, though "be outward gesture and befoir his face thei wald seime and apeir to favore and love him above the rest.
Thocht pest or sword wald vs preuene, Befoir our hour, to slay vs clene, Thay can nocht pluk ane lytill hair Furth of our heid, nor do vs deir.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "befoir" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
