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  • "Rin awa 'yont as fest as your feet'll cairry ye."

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • That 'yont the hallan [324-36] snugly chows her cood; [324-37]

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • Turn the lookin'-gless roond this wey a bittie on the dresser there, an I'll notice in't if onybody comes into the shop, an 'tell them to hover a blink till ye rin yont to Mary's.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • "Oh, it was a fine nicht, and I thought I'd just tak a daunder yont," he said easily.

    A Dominie in Doubt Alexander Sutherland Neill 1928

  • "I wudna wonder if ye didna come yont to tell me aboot the eldership," he said slowly.

    A Dominie in Doubt Alexander Sutherland Neill 1928

  • But, good wife, it's no 'the Campbells we're trying the noo; so as time presses we'll jist "_birze yont_," as they say themselves.

    The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays Eugene O'Neill 1920

  • ‘That you shall have, Meg—Sit down yont there at the door, and tell us what news ye have heard at the fair o’ Drumshourloch.

    Chapter III 1917

  • Some of the feudal Rajahs had been "birsing yont," like the Breadalbanes, and the smaller zemindars were gravely disquieted.

    The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907

  • Aft yont the dyke she's heard you bummin ', [beyond]

    Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

  • You ken what was the sound that keeped my ears frae her words; it was the sound o 'a machine coming yont the Tenements.

    The Little Minister 1898

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