foreway

I got a whisper of this; so by my song, I was determined to cut them all out in that, as well as I did in getting herself; but you know, I couldn't be angry, even if they had got the foreway of me in it, bekase it's an ould custom.

The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

If he is fardher on in the Latin then Andy, he can help Andy; an 'if Andy has the foreway of him, why Andy can help him.

The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

_at_ it at wanst; Squire Dickson knows what I can do as well as any man in Europe; and I'll engage won't be hard upon us for the first year or two; our best plan is to go to-morrow, for fraid some-other might get the foreway of us. '

The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

"Then ye put the cart before the horse, madam," said Nancy, shaking her head grimly, "an 'the ould warrior has got the foreway in her over the holy lady that has the best right in her, in regard of her sex.

Terry Or, She ought to have been a Boy Rosa Mulholland 1881

"Maybe," said the Big Mower, "Denis is gone to get the foreway of us, an 'to take the horse himself.

The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

"Well, well, never say it again -- the sarra one o 'me will keep it back, myself bein' as ripe as any of you, barrin 'his Reverence, that we're not to take the foreway of in anything.

Going to Maynooth Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831