quean
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I don't set store by clothes, meself; but a fine han'some quean they make of ye.
From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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 Charles Rogers
My friends, let me tell you that this is the first pleasant hour, that spiteful quean, Fate, has bestowed upon me for the last three years.
From The Children of the World by Paul Heyse
"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 Sir Walter Scott
Gulbeyaz was an empress, but had been Perhaps as wretched if a peasants quean.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
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