"Gean" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... chief river of Thessaly. It flows through the Vale of Tempe, and between the mountains Ossa and Pelion, emptying finally into the gean Sea. (See map of ...
— Six Centuries of English Poetry - Tennyson to Chaucer • James Baldwin
... cherry, both black and red, common in gardens, is in Scotland, never in England, termed gean (Fr. guigne), from ...
— Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character • Edward Bannerman Ramsay
... both black and red, common in gardens, is in Scotland, never in England, termed gean (Fr. guigne), ...
— Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character • Edward Bannerman Ramsay
... This was Gean, the Giraffe, and she belonged to a tribe which boasted of the fact that they were the tallest of all animals. But they were not aggressive about it at all, for giraffes are the most modest and gentle ...
— Rataplan • Ellen Velvin
... yer steeple-house, Nicholas Stevens," said Matthew, "and mortify yer fatherly bosom for the good of the only soul the Almighty has gean to yer charge, and mind the auld saying, 'Nivver use the taws when a gloom will do ...
— The Shadow of a Crime - A Cumbrian Romance • Hall Caine |
