quean
Example Sentences
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There forsooth the two women be missing, but no slain body of carle or quean have we found, nought of slaughter save the slaughter of kine and sheep.
From The Sundering Flood by Morris, May
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 should be noted that E. queen is not precisely the same word as E. quean.
From A Concise Dictionary of Middle English From A.D. 1150 to 1580 by Mayhew, A. L. (Anthony Lawson)
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
But the other night comes a Highland quean of a lass, and she flashes, God kens what, out at the eastmost window of Mrs. MacPhail's house, that's the superior tenement.
From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 by Scott, Walter, Sir
