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  • "Forbye," said the butler, most irreverently raising his voice to a pitch which drowned his master's, "the fire made fast on us, owing to the store of tapestry and carved timmer in the banqueting-ha ', and the loons ran like scaulded rats sae sune as they heard of the gunpouther."

    The Bride of Lammermoor Walter Scott 1801

  • "Forbye," Archie went on, pursuing his line of thought, "I've my misgivin's aboot wha wrote thae hymes.

    St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

  • Forbye, it'll never come to disguise, or anything desperate.

    Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

  • Forbye, it'll never come to disguise, or anything desperate.

    Flashman and the Mountain of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

  • "Forbye, husband an 'wife should be thegither - it was bad enough when Harry yonder had tae be away in India, an' my wee lassie near heartbroken."

    Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

  • Forbye, we have our families with us, and that's a bad thing when the bullets are flying - who thinks of his duty when he has his wife and weans to care for?

    Flashman Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1969

  • Forbye, we have our families with us, and that's a bad thing when the bullets are flying - who thinks of his duty when he has his wife and weans to care for?

    Flashman Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1969

  • "Forbye my father might have left what you might call an indiscretion or two in Australia," he said.

    A Town Like Alice Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1950

  • "Forbye my father might have left what you might call an indiscretion or two in Australia," he said.

    A Town Like Alice Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1950

  • Forbye killing some o 'oor ain folk it will breed bad bluid through the hale war.

    Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812

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