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Example sentences for "kenned"

Lexicographically close words:
kend; kene; kenn; kenna; kenne; kennel; kennels; kennen; kenning; kennt
  1. But I tellt him that it was clean impossible, for I kenned you were to ride to Dirleton.

  2. He might be scrupulous if he kenned it was all laid out beforehand, though he'll do the deed in hot blood right well and willingly, if he thinks his king's in danger.

  3. I'm thankfu', verra thankfu', that the father kenned the truth afoor he deed.

  4. Hereat they dried their tears in obedience to her bidding, and she said, "Know ye both that I was content to accept what my Lord did unto me, for I kenned that the affliction which befel me was a trial from Him (be He exalted and extolled!

  5. Would Heaven I kenned what quarter or what land * Homes thee, and in what house and tribe thou art An fount of life thou drain in greenth of rose, * While drink I tear drops for my sole desert?

  6. I have come to tell ye that it is neither Christian nor decent to bring up the wee thing but and ben wi' a kenned ill-doer like Daft Jeremy, that has twice been tried for his life for the shedding of blood!

  7. For truth to tell, I kenned not what to say.

  8. She took my hand and syne looked up in my face as trustful-like as if she ha' kenned me all her days.

  9. She had eke a sturdy staff in her hand, that the loons of the port kenned bravely the weight of.

  10. But sair failed is I, sair failed now; Sair failed is I, since I kenned thou.

  11. How was it that those who kenned a better way were not at work long agane?

  12. I kenned fine that they'd heard o' me in America.

  13. I tault him hoo it came that I kenned aboot his dochter's affairs, and begged him would he no reconsider and gie her shelter?

  14. Oh, but your father would be vexed an' he kenned it!

  15. Miss Ellen, I kenned and loved your dear mither weel for mony a day.

  16. I saw that inscription and read it wi' my ain een the verra day the lassie brocht the beuk, and kenned as weel's Mr Crann that the siller wasna to be taen hame again.

  17. I kenned it weel eneuch, though it was a licht flutterin' lauch.

  18. The very name," said she, "and if I kenned whaur he lived I would send the box to him.

  19. His wild ways are best kenned to himsel', but I fear women and drink have been his ruin.

  20. He's factor to half the gentry in these parts; an auld man forbye: highly respeckit; and he kenned your father.

  21. I thought I would never see a kenned face again.

  22. Then there came the bark o' a dog that I kenned weel.

  23. Father, Allie kenned a lady once, who was like me when she was little, and hardly set her foot to the ground for many a year and day.

  24. But the younger man saw there no "kenned face," so he did not linger within, but came out again to stand with the rest.

  25. I had my Mary with me when I was there last, and I dread the thought of the long days with no kenned face near me.

  26. She has never been heard of since, at least he has never heard of her; and it's my belief he would never hear of her, though half the parish kenned her hiding-place.

  27. I kenned by this time what he was to be at," said John to Allison, when he had got thus far.

  28. And when Saunners Crombie spoke his first word to me that night, I kenned well what I must do.

  29. I kenned him because I had seen him before.

  30. And `it's weel over,' as he would also say, if he kenned all.

  31. I am glad to have kenned you, Allison Bain," but Mrs Beaton sighed as she said it.

  32. Nae that I would say onything about it, only it's weel kenned noo.

  33. O God, what garred ye mak things 'at wad mak whusky, whan ye kenned it wad mak sic a beast o' me?

  34. But I s' warran' she kenned weel eneuch whilk o' them was her ain.

  35. I kenned ane o' the name lang syne 'at was lost sicht o'.

  36. I little little kenned He was in these to meet his ruin.

  37. To wean me frae these waefu' thoughts, They took me to the town; But sair on ilka weel-kenned face I missed the youthfu' bloom.

  38. Ye had not been gone ten minutes when I kenned what ye were after and reckoned I had got to see ye oot.

  39. I'm thinking he kenned the magazine wasna empty.

  40. I allood I kenned a' the tricks o' the coaling trade, but a lad with the looks and voice o' a cherub let me down two hundred-weight a ton.

  41. Weel, I've kenned Garcia's sherry account for stranger things than yon.

  42. When the cook said she didna think muckle o' John Knox, and the ither that she wouldna give saxpence tae hear the discourse o' Maister Donald McSnaw o' the true kirk, I kenned it was time for me tae leave them tae a higher Judge.

  43. Tae my surprise he began tae talk tae the stranger as if he'd kenned him a' his days.

  44. King who kenned the quintessence of things, Tale of the, i.

  45. Quintessence of things, Tale of the King who kenned the, i.

  46. King who kenned the Quintessence of things, The, ii.

  47. She had her back to the minister, an' he for his pairt, hardly kenned what he was lookin' at.

  48. Naebody ever asked for the guineas; but it was weel kenned frae whase hoose they were stown.

  49. The gree was born awa frae them by a perfect stranger, kenned neither to them nor to me.

  50. I kenned the folks were fondest o' such as the Auld Hunder, Mount Pleasant, and that excellent favourite the Bangor.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kenned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.