44 examples of colleen in sentences

As Corrigan says, in the "Colleen Bawn," "There was nobody inbut the fireand that was gone out."

A MIXED LETTER-BAG. (Prompted by "Thrifty Colleen's" letter in "The Times" of September 12.)

There's one that is a British Queen, There's one a dwarf, Ashleaf, There's one that is a plain Colleen, There's one an Arran Chief.

In 1829 he became popular through the tale of "The Collegians," here epitomiseda tale that has held the stage to the present day under the title of "The Colleen Bawn."

But I'm a widdy man; an' there's the bit colleen in the convint.

COLLEAN (May), the heroine of a Scotch ballad, which relates how "fause Sir John" carried her to a rock for the purpose of throwing her down into the sea; but May outwitted him, and subjected him to the same fate he had designed for her. COLLEEN', i.e. "girl;" Colleen bawn ("the blond girl"); Colleen rhue ("the red-haired girl"), etc.

COLLEAN (May), the heroine of a Scotch ballad, which relates how "fause Sir John" carried her to a rock for the purpose of throwing her down into the sea; but May outwitted him, and subjected him to the same fate he had designed for her. COLLEEN', i.e. "girl;" Colleen bawn ("the blond girl"); Colleen rhue ("the red-haired girl"), etc.

COLLEAN (May), the heroine of a Scotch ballad, which relates how "fause Sir John" carried her to a rock for the purpose of throwing her down into the sea; but May outwitted him, and subjected him to the same fate he had designed for her. COLLEEN', i.e. "girl;" Colleen bawn ("the blond girl"); Colleen rhue ("the red-haired girl"), etc.

[Illustration] Dion Boucicault has a drama entitled The Colleen Bawn, founded upon Gerald Griffin's novel The Collegians. COLLIER (Jem), a smuggler.

SKEAT, COLLEEN.

SEE Kilner, Colleen Browne.

KILNER, COLLEEN BROWNE.

Colleen Browne Kilner (A); 29Sep54; R136496. KIMBALL, EDWARD ANCEL.

W. B. Saunders Co. (PWH); 27Apr62; R294181. DOUBLEDAY & CO., INC. Colleen Moore's doll house.

CO., INC. Colleen Moore's doll house; the story of the most exquisite toy in the world.

SEE Moore, Colleen.

Harry F. Clarke (co-author), Colleen Skeat & Hazel B. Morgan (W); 22Nov65; R374410. CLASS OF 1938, UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL, THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY.

SKEAT, COLLEEN.

CONN There, there; I never could see tears in a woman's eyes; there, there, colleen.

For Eleanor his wife was of Irish ancestry and of the colleen type, like Katie; and Bently had always played up to her Irish side when courting her as a humorous short cut to a quasi familiarity, for you may call a girl "acushla" and "Ellin darlint" when otherwise you are fully aware, but for the Irish of it, she would have to be referred to as Miss Dodworth.

However, Boucicault sweetened our stage by the production of The Colleen Bawn, Arrah-na-Pogue, and The Shaughraun, and showed by his rollicking impersonations of Myles, Shan, and Conn, how good-humored, hearty, and self-sacrificing Irish boys in humble life can be.

" "Aye, indeed," chimed in his wife, "an' lookit how humble she isno more stuck up now nor she was when she was a little slip of a colleen, leppin' about on the Rock, beyant.

" Mr. Mortimer, at the fifth lock, left Old Jubilee and walked around to remark to Tilda that on the boards some such apparatus"if it could be contrived at moderate expense"would be remarkably effective in the drowning scene of The Colleen Bawn; or, in the legitimate drama, for the descent of Faustus into hell; "or, by means of a gauze transparency, the death of Ophelia might be indicated.

But what became of that Irish colleen you used to moon over?

You still despise the sex on account of that affair with the colleen of the short upper lip. Verily.

44 examples of  colleen  in sentences