For me, in those days, each close that pierced the tall lands was as wide and high as a mountain eas, the street itself seemed broad and substantial, crowded with people worth kenning for their graces and the many things they knew.
Ay, ay--thou is a cunning lad for kenning the hours of bargaining.
I wish there was a summat to eat up their drovers," said another; "a plain Englishman canna make bread within a kenning of them.
Ay, ay; thou is a cunning lad for kenning the hours of bargaining.
How could he speak out all that he wanted to say, kenning my father!
The two shook hands heartily--each "kenning a man when he saw him.
I dinna ken how it was, but there was something pitiful in seeing her take up the mittens and begin working cheerily at one, and me kenning all the time that they would never be finished.
There's things it's best to put off kenningas lang as we can.
I thought on this, for his voice was mournful, though I could not understand the words; and kenning he was a stranger in a far land, my bowels yearned within me with compassion towards him.
They reveal an especial difficulty with the kenning, a device which von Wolzogen apparently did not understand, since the entire translation shows an attempt to interpret the kenning hypotactically.
Kemble reads in his text, and for this reading the translation is correct, but he failed to discern the kenning to ‘geofon’ in ‘wintrys wylm.
To think of me telling ye about the leddy, and you kenning a' the time wha the bairn was.
I dinna ken how it was, but there was something; pitiful in seeing her take up the mittens and begin working cheerily at one, and me kenning all the time that they would never be finished.
Ay--ay, thou is a cunning lad for kenning the hours of bargaining.
I wish there was a summat to eat up their drovers," said another; "a plain Englishman canna make bread with a kenning of them.
BELL: And so say I: Though, kenning only Peter, I’m inclined To fancy Jim may be the better man.
But I bore you nae grudge, kenning that you ettled at the souter's croon and no at mine.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kenning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
