And there she was right enough, that lovely sight enough, the girleen bawn asthore, as for days galore, of planxty Gregory. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Long, long ago, girleen, a harper's gallantry to a pretty maid angered her mother and she asked him to help her twist a straw rope. ❋ Leona Dalrymple (N/A)
"Happiness with the least unhappiness to others, girleen," he reminded with his cheek against her hair. ❋ Leona Dalrymple (N/A)
"She was in Brannigan's last night, buying peppermint drops and every kind of foolishness, the same as she might be a little girleen that was given a penny and her just out of school." ❋ George A. Birmingham (1907)
You spake for me, Miss Nora; you spake up for me, girleen. ❋ L. T. Meade (1884)
"They say it's a sort of a craze now amongst women, the desire to beat us men on our own ground; it's very queer, and I don't understand it, and I am sorry if the craze has seized my girleen." ❋ L. T. Meade (1884)
I feel fit to die sometimes when I think the coat is lost, and it is all on account of the girleen herself. ❋ L. T. Meade (1884)
I have just sent a telegram to the girleen in England. ❋ L. T. Meade (1884)
Well, I'm here, the girleen has managed it, and here I'll stay. ❋ L. T. Meade (1884)
London, S.E. -- Wake up, old girleen; hurry with the tin. ❋ L. T. Meade (1884)
"It is because of the girleen I'm fretting," he said. ❋ L. T. Meade (1884)
I have sent the girleen away, and if you can't stand what she can, why, ❋ L. T. Meade (1884)
Nora; and never one of them sacrificed her honor for gold or anything else; and the men were brave, girleen, very brave, and had never fear in one of them. ❋ L. T. Meade (1884)
He said if I did he would lie quiet for a bit and not tell the governor, so I want you like a blessed girleen to lend me the money. ❋ L. T. Meade (1884)
"Trust the girleen for that," said the Squire, and then they rose from table. ❋ L. T. Meade (1884)
I wonder, now, how that girleen is conducting herself. ❋ L. T. Meade (1884)
And then I do wonder, as Humbert does himself, why the story of Lolita is so profoundy disturbing, whereas, for example, the story of Dante and Beatrice (who was, if I recall Nabokov’s phrase correctly “a sweet girleen of twelve”) meeting fatefully on the Ponte Vecchio has been immortalized in art for centuries. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Braw bawbees and good gold pounds, galore, my girleen, a Sunday’ll prank thee finely. ❋ Unknown (2006)
"I think, girleen," said Kenny, intuitional as always, "that he fears to write, thinking of course you are still at the farm and would try to tempt him back. ❋ Leona Dalrymple (N/A)
"Even granting that, girleen," he said, "it's not going to make somebody unhappy if we take his boat. ❋ Leona Dalrymple (N/A)
