Lasses
[læsiz]
Examples
- The lasses behind; the niece in a front room. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Taken as they ought to be, the majority of the lads and lasses of the West Riding are gentlemen and ladies, every inch of them. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And all these ere beautiful nice, plump, dear lasses about? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- What I sought had glided away; I found myself between two buxom lasses in pinafores. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But a system of inducement which might have carried weaker country lasses along with it had merely repelled Eustacia. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Now, I shall teach my lasses to be as proud as Miss Shirley there, and my lads to be as proud as myseln; but I dare ony o' 'em to be like t' curates. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Yes, yes, he's got two lasses as teachers, aside hisself. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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