quean
Example Sentences
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From commère comes Scot. cummer or kimmer— "A canty quean was Kate, and a special cummer of my ain."
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
The said wardens, both carle and quean, were goodly folk of middle age, stalwart, and kind of face.
From The Well at the World's End: a tale by William Morris
It’s yon flaysome, graceless quean, that’s witched our lad, wi’ her bold een and her forrard ways—till—Nay! it fair brusts my heart!
From Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
She vow'd, she swore she wad be mine, She said she lo'ed me best o' onie; But, ah! the fickle, faithless quean, She 's ta'en the carl, and left her Johnnie!
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
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 Helen Archibald Clarke
