quean

Example Sentences

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Thinks the false quean by such a sleight, that chill my nee'le lack?

From Gammer Gurton's Needle by Art, Mr. S. Mr. of

Gulbeyaz was an empress, but had been Perhaps as wretched if a peasants quean.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

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 Heyse, Paul

Yet they knew us all the while, in their hearts, for what we are —Worst couple, rogue and quean, unhanged—search near and far!

From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald

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