Example Sentences

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"You seem to be kenned here," I observed when my breath had caught up with me.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

I little kenned He was in these to meet his ruin.

From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Turnbull, Robert

I almost think she kenned what was coming.”

From The Twa Miss Dawsons by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)

"I'm thinking ye're no' sorted right," he said; and when Evelyn blushed he resumed with a chuckle: "Ye need no' tell me; I kenned what would happen, and I wish ye all happiness."

From The Coast of Adventure by Bindloss, Harold

I dinna ken what to mak o' him," said Geordie, wha kenned mair aboot the warld than mysel, as he had been three years sailing atween Dumfries and America; "he's owre ceevil by half.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various