I do have to say that I loved the photo of the young lady with her 'swain' in his kilt..very very classy. From Wordnik.com. [A Linktastic Friday to End All Linktastic Fridays - A Dress A Day] Reference
There was no more chanting from the wells: only shuffle and creak, the cox'swain's count, the thresh of the wheels overside. From Wordnik.com. [Three Worlds To Conquer]
Your "swain" is a criminal and is blackmailing you?. From Wordnik.com. [NEWS.com.au | Top Stories] Reference
Every time you use the word "swain" I think of the word "swine.". From Wordnik.com. [AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories] Reference
One wretched swain tells us that he finds it to be. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Thus sang the uncouth swain to the oaks and rills. From Wordnik.com. [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference
An 'mourn the sad hour that my swain took his leave. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
For each slew downright were he swain were he knight. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
I would see you safe home (now the swain was in love). From Wordnik.com. [Bluebell A Novel] Reference
If your swain is faithful, color of rose will grow darker. From Wordnik.com. [Games For All Occasions] Reference
Attentive swain, whose lady has commanded you to be at her. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-20] Reference
But fear not thou thy smitten swain of lures and sorcery tell. From Wordnik.com. [The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse] Reference
Filipino swain rarely presents himself alone at a house to call. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference
Hoarse are the mandates of the boat-swain! his whistle painfully shrill!. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
If the swain would go on successfully, he must imitate the bird he writes upon. From Wordnik.com. [The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899] Reference
If a swain is halting between two opinions, viz. whether he will propose to such. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
The poor swain was now as rich, and again sued for his beloved, whom he obtained. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
"He never did give me the impression of being a very constant swain," laughed Anne. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School] Reference
The delinquent laggard swain had been telling of his ability as a presiding officer. From Wordnik.com. [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference
Galatea in the Eclogue, -- how she did not hide, until she saw her swain was looking fondly after. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference
We lie there, the fulsome woman and her ardent swain, laughing our heads off without making a sound. From Wordnik.com. [Minnesota Menage] Reference
Many a desperate swain would have risked life for the privilege of pressing his lips to the mysterious hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Short-story] Reference
Placing twenty kreutzers on the table, the happy swain begged the clerk to write as finely turned a letter to. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1] Reference
She kissed the tips of her fingers to him and moved slowly down the stairs, followed by her indifferent swain. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
Much to her surprise, the offer would be accepted, and the swain would walk off with the ornament he had praised. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850] Reference
Many a farmer had a sight of their comely, milk-white kine; many a swain had his soul turned to romance and poesy by. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
The swain leaves the country for several years -- gets on -- remembers the old love, and returns to fulfil his vows. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
The swain and his swainess had just encountered a bulldog that looked as if his bite might be quite as bad as his bark. From Wordnik.com. [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference
A few years past forty herself with her aging swain older still, she decides she will reclaim her life with this child. From Wordnik.com. [Flax] Reference
African fame, and as a love-sick swain I naturally expected to see very little of him, until after the wedding at any rate. From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
It was the "Queen of the May," the prettiest and one of the poorest girls in the parish, walking arm in arm with her rural swain. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
A crew of giggling servant-maids will get hold of some simple swain, and send him to a bookseller's shop for the 'History of Eve's. From Wordnik.com. [Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories] Reference
Besides, you'll find, that their couples were never married: -- but yonder I see my Corydon, and a sweet swain it is, Heaven knows!. From Wordnik.com. [The Beaux-Stratagem] Reference
He ceases fighting, sheathes his sword, and says to her, ‘Wilt thou go home to thy mother again, or wilt thou follow so sad a swain?’. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series] Reference
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