blain
Example Sentences
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But I—" "We're blain beoble, miss, but we got a respegtable standing in the neighborhood for fifteen years.
From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie
That is a lie, because I sboke as blain as anythin'.
From The Valley of the Kings by Pickthall, Marmaduke William
"I guess you know it, Miss Lilly, that with all the honors we got by our daughter, we're still blain, respegtable beoble."
From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie
De moonlighdt blayed oopon de drees, It shined oopon de blain, Two forms rode in de mitnight woods, Und nefer coomed again.
From The Breitmann Ballads by Leland, Charles Godfrey
Blained, adj. "half dry," said of linen hung out to dry, is, of course, simply the pp. of blain, cp.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
