Example Sentences

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And if ye had kenned her in her youth, you would have said the same.

From The Twa Miss Dawsons by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)

If I had kenned that, Nestie, ye little scoundrel, I would have given them a cheer.

From Young Barbarians by Maclaren, Ian

“They were just a’ bairns thegither,” she had said, “and had kenned one another all their lives.”

From The Twa Miss Dawsons by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)