"The Blairs was aye a cauld and oppressive race, and they were black Prelatists forbye.

Forbye, I think you've spirit, though it's maybe mixed with a deal of folly.

He was no better than an old wife, and as timid as a hare forbye.

'Twas difficult enough to scout well in this tangled place, but, forbye my duty to the dominion, I had the business of taking one who was the light of my life into this dark land of bloody secrets.

" "There is John Gilmour, my landlord," continued she, "who, though he needed a' his rents for a big family, passed me many a term, and forbye brought me often, when I was ill and couldna work, many a bottle o' wine; there is Mrs. Paterson o' the Watergate, too, who aince, when I gaed to her in sair need, gave me a shilling out

But the mighty Nabob was unwilling to give her to the white-faced lover, even though he was the governor of Bombay, forbye having Balinsloe and Lindertes in Scotland too.

Didna I see Gentle Geordie trying to get other folk out of the Tolbooth forbye Jock Porteous?

Everyone liked him fine, forbye they distrusted him, too.

'He's got a new sang,' Mrs. Pumpherston intimated, with a stimulating glance round the company, 'an' he's got a tunin' fork, forbye, that saves him wrastlin' for the richt key, as it were.

Weel, I had a late pass that nicht, an' I thocht I wud miss seein' ma aunt's ugly for wancethough it meant missin' a guid meal forbye.

If ye dinna, I'll want to kill masel' an' Maggie forbye.

I have letters for you from your parents and sister, forbye your brother James.

"First, the valie o' the eggs for sale, (mony ane had fetched a dollar,) forbye the ecawnomy in size for cooking, one shell handing the meat o' twa common eggs.

the quean is not ill-favoured; but ye ha' lost a gude day's sport, Count, forbye ither losses which we sall na particularize.

For some time the patriarch observed the movements of the geologist, and at length, going up to him, quietly said, "Sir, ye're breaking something there forbye the stanes!"

"Weel, sir, you may look at your ain seat, and ye'll see a sleeper forbye me," answered Jeems, pointing to the clergyman's lady in the minister's pew.