Shamie started the saw he had borrowed and it whined and girned, echoing round the small wood. ❋ Laverty, Bernard Mac (1983)
"Go down, go down, ye beast, if ye never come up," he girned, and flung the man from him to the earth, where he lay. ❋ John Sillars (N/A)
When that he had said these wordis, the horned Bischopis and thare complices cryed, and girned [413] with thare teith, saying, "See ye not what colouris he hath in his speich, that he may begile us, and seduce us to his opinioun." ❋ John Knox (N/A)
Later on in the day, after we had had a meal, he sat at the passage-way and eyed us, and the dog girned and showed his teeth. ❋ John Sillars (N/A)
"The hell take you," he girned through clenched teeth, and his knife left his hip. ❋ John Sillars (N/A)
She would have thrown it from her that time, for she was like a quick-tempered boy, but at her angry movement the old dog girned at me, and the rumble o 'his growl made us look, and there he was ready to spring at me, and it makes me laugh yet; for Mirren, my own quick-tempered lass, fondled my hand at her waist to quieten him. ❋ John Sillars (N/A)
Major Weir sat opposite to him, in a red laced coat, and the Lairds wig on his head; and aye as Sir Robert girned wi pain, the jackanape girned too, like a sheeps-head between a pair of tangsan ill-faurd, fearsome couple they were. ❋ Unknown (1921)
Major Weir sat opposite to him, in a red-laced coat, and the lairds wig on his head; and aye as Sir Robert girned wi pain, the jackanape girned too, like a sheeps head between a pair of tangsan ill-faured, fearsome couple they were. ❋ Unknown (1907)
Man, a've often girned that he sud fecht awa for us a ', and maybe dee before he kent that he hed githered mair luve than ony man in the Glen. ❋ Ian Maclaren (1878)
Major Weir sat opposite to him, in a red-laced coat, and the laird's wig on his head; and aye as Sir Robert girned wi 'pain, the jackanape girned too, like a sheep's head between a pair of tangs -- an ill-faur'd, fearsome couple they were. ❋ Various (1878)
Man, a ''ve often girned that he sud fecht awa' for us a ', and maybe dee before he kent that he had githered mair luve than ony man in the Glen. ❋ Various (1878)
A 'gaed on as a' should gang on whaur the servan's are no ower gran 'for their ain wark, nor ower meddlesome wi' the wark o 'their neebours; naething was negleckit, nor onything girned aboot; but a' was peace an 'hermony, as quo' the auld sang about out bonny Kilmeny -- that is, till ae nicht. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
'My minnie aye needit me to sort the fish and gang her errands, and wad scarce hae sent me to scule, gin I wad hae gane where they girned at me for Partan Jeannie's wean, and gied me mair o' the tawse than of the hornbook. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
'"Isabella, let me in, or I'll make you repent!" he "girned," as Joseph calls it. ❋ Emily Bront�� (1833)
Major Weir sat opposite to him, in a red laced coat, and the laird's wig on his head; and ay as Sir Robert girned wi 'pain, the jackanape girned too, like a sheep's-head between a pair of tangs -- an ill-faur'd, fearsome couple they were. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
Major Weir sat opposite to him, in a red laced coat, and the laird’s wig on his head; and ay as Sir Robert girned wi’ pain, the jackanape girned too, like a sheep’s-head between a pair of tangs — an ill-faur’d, fearsome couple they were. ❋ Unknown (2008)
“I mind it weel,” said the king; “I mind it weel — it was a blessed day, being the nineteen of September, of all days in the year — and it was a blithe sport to see how some of the carles girned as they clapped loofs together. ❋ Unknown (2004)
"'Isabella, let me in, or I'll make you repent!' he 'girned,' as Joseph calls it. ❋ Unknown (1847)
