"Knaw" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have native steads to me, And some by name I do not knaw; The Hangingshaw and Newark Lee, And mony mair ...
— The Balladists - Famous Scots Series • John Geddie
... knaw'd wot a mean'd but I thow't a 'ad summut to saay, And I thowt a said wot a owt to 'a ...
— Biographical Study of A. W. Kinglake • Rev. W. Tuckwell
... a great many of these words very funnily, so that Milly could hardly understand her. She said "doos" and "oop," and "knaw," and "jist," and "la-ike," but it sounded quite pretty from her soft little mouth, and Milly thought she had a very nice ...
— Milly and Olly • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... I went to Leeds Owd Church— I were niver i' one i' my days, An' I were maistly ashamed o' misel, for I didn't knaw their ways; There were thirty or forty folk, i' tubs an' boxes sat, When up cooms a saucy owd fellow. Says he, "Noo, lad, tak off ...
— Yorkshire Dialect Poems • F.W. Moorman
... I fell into th' step for I knaw how to march, For I've been stiffen'd up wi' guvernment starch; An' first smell o' music it makes me fair dance An' I prick us mi ears like a trooper his lance, Hasumever, I thout as I'd gotten the scent, I'd follow this music wharever ...
— Th' History o' Haworth Railway - fra' th' beginnin' to th' end, wi' an ackaant o' th' oppnin' serrimony • Bill o'th' Hoylus End
... Bell's cupboards dry. The stars were just beginning to wink out as I got my feet in the stirrups, and to confess the truth, I was winking far worse than the stars. However, Dobbin took across the moors, and I was in the high road for my home. How it was I dinna knaw; but I rather think that I had fallen asleep, and that something or other had scared the nag, and I had slipped out o' the saddle. I mind o' lying very cauld and uncomfortable, half-dreaming, half-waking, and I daresay, more than three parts the worse o' drink. I mind, tee, o' ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III • Various
... to un now through thick and thin? 'Twill niver do for un, ye knaw, to set his foot on Cornish ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XXVI., December, 1880. • Various
... telling on me, Miss Kathleen! so I'se be aforehond wi' ye, and let Mr. Charlie knaw the warst frae my ain confassion, if he will na grudge me ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, March, 1858 • Various |
