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
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
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
He was in a crunkle o' green brae, a wee below the chaipel, a' by his lee lane, and lowped and flang and danced like a daft quean at a waddin'.
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