Even if they get no "forrader," it tends to toleration and a better knowledge of each other's language and ideals. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
While the spell of miscellaneous writing, for those who savour it, is the author's joyous inability, it would seem, to get any "forrader," to stick to the point, to carry anything with a rush. From Wordnik.com. [Walking-Stick Papers] Reference
I sat on for some time in the dining-room discussing it with Stenning, but we didn't get much forrader. From Wordnik.com. [Movie Night] Reference
'All the same,' said Peter to himself, 'we don't seem to get much forrader in our search for the missing heir.'. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
A sobering thought, which reminded Liam that while interesting, this kind of speculation wasn't getting him any forrader. From Wordnik.com. [Fire and Ice]
Still grinding away at the report stage of Land Bill; don't get any forrader; been at it a week, and to-night just as many. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 13, 1891] Reference
Anne, who could see from her bedchamber window, and observe from her walks in the gardens, the eternal return of new life, idled her time away and was no forrader in her thinking. From Wordnik.com. [The Frozen Heart]
"And it doesn't leave Letty very much -- forrader.". From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Britling Sees It Through] Reference
He stood his ground valiantly in the face of a volley of long words, but he did not get any forrader. From Wordnik.com. [A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium] Reference
She'd only think it was a trap; or she'd think I'd caved in, and be so cockahoop we should never get any forrader. From Wordnik.com. [Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl] Reference
In Committee on Irish Land Bill, but no forrader. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 16, 1891] Reference
"Well," said Mr. Repton, sighing, "I don't think we shall get any forrader. From Wordnik.com. [On Something] Reference
Unfortunately I don't know the young lady, so I can't see how I'm to get any forrader. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Ffolliots of Redmarley] Reference
But whether we’re any forrader, or what we’re heading for, I don’t pretend to say. From Wordnik.com. [The Key]
"didn't seem to be gitting no forrader somehow," he began and went through every word of it again. From Wordnik.com. [Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life] Reference
"Well," said my cousin after a moment's thought, "the problem in my mind always comes back to this, that we are never likely to get much forrader until we can station a spy of our own in the place to watch what's going on. From Wordnik.com. [The Man from the Clouds] Reference
When the man on my right asks, "Wouldn't they quarrel?" there's almost always another man on my left who says, "If women were enfranchised we wouldn't be an inch forrader, because the wife would vote as her husband told her to. From Wordnik.com. [The Convert] Reference
But Sydney wor too wide awake to be catched easy; he wor varry happy an comfortable as a bachelor, an as he'd a gooid idea at i 'mooast cases it wor his brass an not him at they wanted, he steered clear o' all th 'traps at they set for him; an when th' Kursmis parties wor all ovver, he wor still single -- an they'd none on em getten noa forrader wi him when winter coom agean, an put a stop to Lawn Tennis an Croquet Parties. From Wordnik.com. [Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect] Reference
But fundamentally we were "no forrader.". From Wordnik.com. [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference
And that's just where I seem no forrader. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Man from the Clouds] Reference
It doesn’t take us much forrader, though.”. From Wordnik.com. [Coroner's Pidgin]
"wrestlers" of our youth, never get much "forrader.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 5, 1917] Reference
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