quean
Example Sentences
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Ay, ay," answered Rob, "she's under lawfu' authority now; and full time, for she was a daft hempie—But she's a mettle quean.
From Rob Roy — Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott
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 James Fenimore Cooper
Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here's to the widow of fifty; Here's to the flaunting, extravagant quean, And here's to the housewife that's thrifty.
From Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett
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 May Morris
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
