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

Though I don't mind at the moment, I maun hae kenned your forebears in days lang syne.

From The Road to Paris by Stephens, Robert Neilson

“They were just a’ bairns thegither,” she had said, “and had kenned one another all their lives.”

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

"Oh, Mary, if ye only kenned what a heart I have, and how aften I've lookit at you when I never spake a word, ye wad never bid me do that."

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various

Ay, ay, Margate," said her auditor, when she had heard the story to an end, "it's a warning, shure aneugh; and that will be seen before lang; for I never kenned a warning fail.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various