Example Sentences

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Ye ne'er will ken true Heelantmen Wha'll own they hadna ony!

From The Auld Doctor and other Poems and Songs in Scots by Rorie, David

Tam Gallaberry has led a grey mare to his stable that will 241prove the better horse, and that he will ken before he is a fortnight older.”

From The Dew of Their Youth by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

"You will ken the Red Laird's deid and buried, Sandy?"

From The McBrides A Romance of Arran by Sillars, John

I’ll keep out o’ sicht, and naebody will ken.

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

I will ken them all, on by on, from vtheris, quhan they appeir lyk a man.'

From The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology by Murray, Margaret Alice