Example Sentences

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"You seem to be kenned here," I observed when my breath had caught up with me.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

Though I don't mind at the moment, I maun hae kenned your forebears in days lang syne.

From The Road to Paris by Stephens, Robert Neilson

He was nae handsome man, he kenned that weel.

From The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona by Marsland, Cora

I almost think she kenned what was coming.”

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

The mistress—your mother—somewey was against it; but I thocht I kenned best, an' mony a sweet bit stolen oor I had up at that same gate at the heid o' the gairden there.

From Betty Grier by Waugh, Joseph Laing