Fine thrampin' over the counthry I've had after you--forby givin' us the greatest fright altogether.
Troth have I--that is, before my misfortunes, I had twa or three bonny bits of mailings amang the closes and wynds, forby the shop and the story abune it.
They bide in a big hoose doon about the Meadows in Edinboro, an' they have a big servant, and twa dogs; forby a bit lassockie to look efter the bairns.
In the carriage your father telled me as a joke that he had got away without paying the supper, and that about all the money he had now, forby what was to pay our tickets to London, was the half-sovereign on his watch-chain.
Forby that, I could not let my son mix with their bairns for fear they should teach him the vulgar Thrums words and clarty his blue-velvet suit.
Naebody kens it's loaded but me and you and the Almichty, forby a wheen sodgers that ha'e felt the wecht o't.
Dumfries is a stronghold o' the Covenanters; forby it is ane o' the heidquarters o' the persecutors.
Forby says good housewives in Norfolk consider themselves reminded by the name to mix the ingredients for their Christmas mince-pies.
Forby says the word is used in Norfolk for heavy shoes to resist wet.
In my day I have been soldier, sailor, reiver, hunter and hunted, doctor and patient, forby a wheen mair.
And there will be the lovers too for whom there iss the driech wait, forby (besides) that maybe their dearest will be lying under the rowans with their een steekit (eyes fixed) in death.
And my silver set wi' twenty solid teaspoons, forby the linen?
I see it here in th' corner jist as plain as I saw it then; forby Antrim wud never get over th' shock of seein' me in a jauntin' car.
Forby they haave no special pathway t' God that's shut t' me, nor yer oul father nor Willie Withero!
Maybes aye an' maybes no--there's bonny lasses forby Meg Kissock for them that hae gotten een in their heads.
Forby explains it as "Succulency, natural nutritive moisture," as e.
Forby gives the Norfolk simile "as white as nep," in allusion to the white down which covers this plant.
Never mind there's queer things in the world forby Ezra.
Forby thinks it may be derived from the Italian gozzo, a throat.
Halbert himself, forby Edward, who is of softer nature, he wad hae yammered the haill night of a constancy.
There was the lawsuit to be ended," said Jenny readily, "forby many other family arrangements.
Forby has an interesting note in his Vocabulary of East Anglia, i.
Forby has, "Morris, an ancient game, in very common modern use.
Both Forby in his Vocabulary of East Anglia and Moor in his Suffolk Words bear testimony to the general prevalence of barbers' forfeits, and it must be borne in mind that barbers were also surgeons in early days.
And he seyd he xuld com forby this plase on huntyng after non, and ther xuld no mor com with hym but Hegon and on of his owyn men; and than he wold bryng seche an answere as xuld plese me.
But I must be off, lass; for I've the horses to get ready, forby the shortness of the time.
Never mind, there's queer things in the worldforby Ezra.
I believe Highlands and Lowlands ken that, sir, forby England and Holland," replied Ratcliffe, with the greatest composure and effrontery.
If she wasna sae wise as ither folk, few ither folk had suffered as muckle as she had done; forby that she could fend the waur for hersell within the four wa's of a jail.
Ye maun gang to yer bed some time the nicht forby (besides), or ye winna be fit for yer wark the morn.
There’s others Are getting on in years, forby old Ezra.
Do you call to mind We sat the livelong day in a golden carriage, Squandering a fortune, forby the tanner I dropt?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forby" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
