Were not my forefathers men? Can my suffering 'scape their ken?

O brothers mine, to-day we stand Where half a century sweeps our ken, Since God, through Lincoln's ready hand, Struck off our bonds and made us men.

'Beruna.' 'Ay! ay! Morgana!' 'Tip me the clank, like a dimber mort as you are; trim a ken for the gentry cove; he is no lanspresado, or I am a kinchin.

A brief interlude with her, a few words of perfunctory affection, a few assurances of good faith, and heas her princely husbandwould vanish from her ken forever.

Glasga, I'm tellin' ye, should ye no ken for yersel'.