2 Sentences With "fore elder"

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My fore-elders made a stand upon the fell, and the Scots cam bravely up. Ane of our side fell at the first fore gathering, and anither was wounded; but ane of the Scots fell too. My fore-elder was then sore beset with the twa Scots, till he gat a straik at them with his swaird, and garred his heid spang alang the heather like an inion! And then the third Scot tuik aff over the hills, and my fore-elder carried the sheep into Tynedale.
". A later account, makes clear that such a cry was the likely prelude to a fight. His association with the people of the Tarset area suggests that Muckle Jock originally came from Upper North Tynedale, towards the Border, rather than Bellingham itself. Muckle Jock claimed descent from a Border Reiver, Barty of the Comb, and told this story about him to Charlton, in his Border dialect, closer to Scots than Northumbrian English: "My fore-elder, wi' twa ithers, gaed yence over the Borders to lift sheep on the Scottish side; for the Scottish thieves had harried sair in Tynedale. They gaed over by the Coquet heid, and lifted the sheep near Yetholm, and druv them down by Reedwater heid, when the Scots cam after them, three to three.