quean
Example Sentences
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Oh, she was a canty quean, An' weel could dance the Hieland walloch!
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles
Joseph was the only objector, and he appealed to Heathcliff against 'yon flaysome graceless quean, that's witched our lad wi' her bold een and her forrad ways.'
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 02 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur
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
She vow'd, she swore she wad be mine, She said she lo'ed me best o' onie; But, ah! the fickle, faithless quean, She 's ta'en the carl, and left her Johnnie!
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles
"May be he is her coosin; but coosins are nae that sib that a weedow is to be hailed aboot jist ane as though she were ony quean at a fair."
From The Eustace Diamonds by Trollope, Anthony
