Example Sentences

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Take the following as examples: "Fwok sud aye be menseful, an' menseful amang fwok."

From Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting by Gilpin, Sidney

They mind what's menseful same as fowks do.

From More Tales of the Ridings by Moorman, Frederic William

Wha's she?" he said, turning to his host; and, when he had been told, "Ay," says he, "she looks menseful.

From Weir of Hermiston by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Then Joe thought to himself, "Come, come, we are getting back to our own menseful way again."

From The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

You used to like me; and you always seemed A menseful body: and I lippened to you.

From Krindlesyke by Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson