Genty

The dove she is a genty bird, she flees without a gaw; ❋ Frank Sidgwick (N/A)

The doo she is a genty bird, and flies withoot a ga ' ❋ Unknown (1898)

There might David Balfour hang, and other lads pass on their errands and think light of him; and old daft limmers sit at a leg-foot and spae their fortunes; and the clean genty maids go by, and look to the other aide, and hold a nose. ❋ Unknown (1893)

She was so small and genty, she had such a lovely face, such fair rippling hair, and her gown was of blue muslin made in the fashion of the day, and finished with a lace collar round her throat, and a ribbon belt round her slender waist. ❋ Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1875)

There might David Balfour hang, and other lads pass on their errands and think light of him; and old daft limmers sit at leg-foot and spae their fortunes; and the clean genty maids go by, and look to the other side, and hold a nose. ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)

There might David Balfour hang, and other lads pass on their errands and think light of him; and old daft limmers sit at a leg - foot and spae their fortunes; and the clean genty maids go by, and look to the other aide, and hold a nose. ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)

She thought Alfred Stevens so handsome, and he smiled so sweetly, and he spoke so genty, and, in short, so great had been his progress in the affections of his hostess in the brief space of a single week, that we are constrained to confess ourselves rejoiced that she herself was an old woman, as well on her own account as on that of her worthy spouse. ❋ William Gilmore Simms (1838)

There was something genty and delicate-like about him, having a pale sharp face, blue eyes, a nose like ❋ David Macbeth Moir (1824)

There was something genty and delicate - like about him, having a pale sharp face, blue eyes, a nose like a hawk's, and long yellow hair hanging about his haffets, as if barbers were unco scarce cattle among the howes of the Lammermoor hills. ❋ David Macbeth Moir (1824)

Once in place, each began kneeling and genty kissing the feet of Jesus as he lay on the cross. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This act asserted that it was a fundamental law of the Church that no pastor should be forced by the genty upon a congregation contrary to the popular will, and that any noominee could be rejected by majority of the heads of families. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He has a fine genty air, I will say; and someways you don't feel the same to him when he comes by you as you do to other men, and he certainly is a great traveller; but to say that there isn't a girl worthy of him, that's like Nabob Johnny tellin 'Tibby Fowler that he never met the girl that wasn't partial to him. " ❋ Hall Caine (1892)