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swain
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Swain is an English surname derived from the Old Norse personal name Sveinn ( Sven , Sweyn ), meaning a youth or young man . There are a number of variations in the spelling of the surname Swain, including Swaine, Swainne, and Swayne. From this word meaning ...
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Swain \Swain\, n. [OE. swain, swein, Icel. sveinn a boy, servant; akin to Sw. sven, Dan. svend, AS. sw[=a]n, OHG. swein.] A servant. [Obs.] Him behoves serve himself that has no swain. --Chaucer. A young man dwelling in the country; a rustic; esp., a cuntry ...
Usage examples of swain.
But thou, Swain of Upmeads, wilt thou deem it hard to lie anear the horses, to watch them if they be scared by aught?
Jemima had not figured Randall Birley as at all political, unlike Millie Swain, but perhaps he had been persuaded by Millie to do a commercial for the Labour-Liberal coalition.
It was Jemima Shore, not Charley Baines, who was the unwilling witness to the subsequent colloquy between Randall Birley and Millie Swain.
Where Randall Birley and Millie Swain were concerned, Jemima was still at this point unaware that they had not arrived together.
The noise was caused by Millie Swain pushing her way out of the row, under the cover of the heavy applause for Randall Birley, or was it for Helen Troy?
Britishborn bairns lisping prayers to the Sacred Infant, youthful scholars grappling with their pensums or model young ladies playing on the pianoforte or anon all with fervour reciting the family rosary round the crackling Yulelog while in the boreens and green lanes the colleens with their swains strolled what times the strains of the organtoned melodeon Britannia metalbound with four acting stops and twelvefold bellows, a sacrifice, greatest bargain ever .
Stokes left office at the new year, and the new governor was a man called David Swain, who came from Buncombe County, not far from here.
They were Alice Daker and Jenny Marsh, girlfriends of the slumbering swains.
The son, Byron Daws, goes to university with your young swain, you know.
There had been Albert Swain and Charlie Smedley, Bob Maycock and George Chislet, as well as Peter Foster, who had sometimes brought his harmonica along and played a few of the old songs.
Albert Swain did up his bootlace and glanced at Bob 496 Maycock who had not moved.
Lady Pippin, in a harassed manner that few of her swains would have recognized.
The little man lifted his small white hand, offering the grey wristband to Swain.
Swain said, frowning at the thick grey wristband clamped to his wrist.
The enamoured swain, after settling an annuity of seven hundred pounds per annum upon the fair inconstant, had the mortification to find himself abandoned on the very night the deeds were completed, the lady having made a precipitate retreat, with a more favoured lover, to Paris.