fa'n

Our sub, who hailed from 'auld reekie,' thus replied, "Weel, sir, I dinna think there is onything extraordinary in that; had he fa'n doon a precipice 400 feet high, and _not_ been killed, I should ha'e thocht it vera extraordinary indeed, and would ha'e put it doon in my report!"

In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith

He gie'd ae bitter groan, an 'wad hae fa'n to the earth had'na a kind neebor supported him.

The Path of Duty, and Other Stories

He gie'd ae bitter groan, an 'wad' hae fa'n to the earth had'na a kind neebor supported him.

Stories and Sketches Harriet S. Caswell

The burn was'na large, but a heavy rain had lately fa'n, an 'there was aye a deep bit at one end o' the brig.

The Path of Duty, and Other Stories

He had fa'n head first into the water in sic a way that he could'na possibly won 'oot.

The Path of Duty, and Other Stories

He had fa'n head first into the water in sic a way that he could'na possibly won 'oot.

Stories and Sketches Harriet S. Caswell

The burn was'na large, but a heavy rain had lately fa'n, an 'there was aye a deep bit at one end o' the brig.

Stories and Sketches Harriet S. Caswell

I well mind, said my father, o 'the time when they first cam' among us, an 'how kin' was a 'the neebors to his pale sad-lookin' wife and the bonny light-hearted Geordie, who was owre young at the time, to realize to its fu 'extent the sad habit into which his father had fa'n.

The Path of Duty, and Other Stories

Norway and old Tobias will come plowing down the street again howling that fa'n ta mig the devil has him and that old Thor leaped on his window sill and tossed the all-powerful sun out of the sky with his hammer.

A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Ben Hecht 1929

And the lassies were bits o 'young things wi' the reid life dinnling and stending in their members; and this was a muckle, fat, creishy man, and him fa'n in the vale o 'years.

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893