Example Sentences

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Ay, lass, but it wasna to be, as I might have kenned from the beginning.

From Janet's Love and Service by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)

I am glad to have kenned you, Allison Bain,” but Mrs Beaton sighed as she said it.

From Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not by Edwards, G. H. (George Henry)

I doubt you may have a sorer heart to carry about with you than you have kenned of yet.

From The Orphans of Glen Elder by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)

But I have kenned such a power o’ mockery give great pain to others, and bring great suffering sooner or later on those that had it.

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

I wouldna have minded him, but I would have kenned him anywhere.”

From Janet's Love and Service by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)