quean
Example Sentences
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For the bride was a stout household quean; her face painted with vermilion, and her person arrayed in uncouth embroidered garments.
From The Life of Lord Byron by Galt, John
I don't set store by clothes, meself; but a fine han'some quean they make of ye.
From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
Then, after the feast ye shall dance—dance, Elsie, as danced that other bonnie quean they caaed the dochter o' Herodias.
From Deep Moat Grange by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
"Whisky is gude eneugh for her," muttered Cuddie; "ane wadna hae thought that gude meal was sae scant amang them, when the quean threw sae muckle gude kail-brose scalding het about my lugs."
From Old Mortality, Volume 2. by Scott, Walter, Sir
She could coax you to the buying like a Cumnock quean, and fleece you in the selling like the cadgers o' Kincardine.
From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas
