"Forenenst" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... whispered the true names and qualities territorial of these gentlemen; the whilk, as may befall honourable soldados, they had reason sufficient to conceal while serving as private gentlemen in a regiment, though disdaining to receive halberds, as unbecoming their birth. He that aligned himself forenenst me was styled the Chevalier d'Herblay; and, the word being ...
— Old Friends - Essays in Epistolary Parody • Andrew Lang |
