quean

Example Sentences

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Thou talkest like a foolish quean that has been frightened by the fluttering of her own poultry.

From The Headsman The Abbaye des Vignerons by Cooper, James Fenimore

It’s yon flaysome, graceless quean, that’s witched our lad, wi’ her bold een and her forrard ways—till—Nay! it fair brusts my heart! 

From Wuthering Heights by Brontë, Emily

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)

"I heard something a while syne about his drawing up wi' a bonny quean about the Pleasaunts, and that it was a' Wilson could do to keep him frae marrying her."

From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Scott, Walter, Sir

"Did I know Kate Happer?" replied the widow; "as well as the beggar knows his dish—a canty quean was Kate, and a special cummer of my ain maybe twenty years syne."

From The Monastery by Scott, Walter, Sir