4314 examples of kens in sentences

But when, twenty years subsequent to that, the wicked and unhappy Allan Sandison was found dead on that very spot, and lying across the green mound, then nearly level with the surface, which she had once seen a new grave, she then for the first time ever thought of a Divine Providence; and she added, "For my grandfather, Neddy Haw, he dee'd too; there's naebody kens how, nor ever shall.

Eftsoons the urchins to their tasks repair; Their books of stature small they take in hand, Which with pellucid horn securèd are; To save from finger wet the letters fair: The work so gay, that on their back is seen, St. George's high achievements does declare; On which thilk wight that has y-gazing been Kens the forth-coming rod, unpleasing sight, I ween!

Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad came o'er the moor, To do some errands and convoy her hame.

'The old man says Slains is now inhabited by a Mr. Bowles, who comes so far from the southward that naebody kens whare he comes frae.

For the wily fox, Safe in the increasing number of his foes, Kens well the great advantage: slinks behind And slily creeps through the same beaten track, And hunts them step by step; then views escaped With inward ecstasy, the panting throng In their own footsteps puzzled, foiled and lost.

" "But, miss, Sir Henry already kens a' aboot the Whispers," said the man.

wi' doleful tone, "Aft, aft I wakeI seldom sleep; But wha's this kens my name sae weel, And thus to ease my wae does seek.

If Mr. Harry Waakfelt kens where he is wranged, he kens where he may be righted.

If Mr. Harry Waakfelt kens where he is wranged, he kens where he may be righted.

"And now he faintly kens the bounding fawn, And villager abroad at early toil.

But the bobby kens me fineI've bailed John oot twice, for a guinea ilka time, and they recognize steady customers there like anywheres else!

Had her faither stood by herbut, who kens, who kens?

He kens fine that sometimes there'll be those who couldna save, no matter how they tried.

I canna understand that in a man wi' sense enough to mak' a success in business, yet every actor kens weel that it's sae.

And he kens fine the way they're talking, but never a bean does he care.

It's bairns Jenny wants, whether or no she kens that.

And the workingman kens as weel as do I that after a fire the first thing a man does is tae mak' the hoose habitable again.

He kens what his words mean, does Harry.

"A'body kens about the laddie now," he said.

Many a time I says to mysel', says I, 'All is over,' and syne next minute that holy look comes ower his face, and he stretches out his legs like as if he was riding on a horse, and all that kens him says, 'He has found a wy.'

"But nobody kens except me and Gavinia," he said.

"The mon kens nae mair aboot the cost o' things than a cheild," said she.

We must have lost the 'primitive' men, the Kens, the Wilsons, the Knoxes, the Kebles, the Puseys.

An old man, spying puss in this unusual position, significantly remarked, "Ay, yon beast kens weel it is the Sabbath-day;" taking it for granted that no one in the place would be found audacious enough to hurt the animal on a Sunday.

Mony ane speirs the gate he kens fu' weel.

4314 examples of  kens  in sentences