quean
Example Sentences
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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 Bartlett, John
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'.
A plaguy, crafty quean, marry a God, I see Prince John courted as well as I; And since he shall be mock'd as well as I, It's some contentment.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various
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
Then, after the feast ye shall dance—dance, Elsie, as danced that other bonnie quean they caaed the dochter o' Herodias.
From Deep Moat Grange by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)