What is "lass"

Usage examples of "lass".

This is the counsel of ane that wishes ye weel, you and that denty lass at your elbuck.

She was astonished at the southern beauty of the village girls, whom she pronounced to be much handsomer that the country lasses in England.

For me, no venerable spinster hoarded in the Trongate, permitting herself few luxuries during a long-protracted life, save a lass and a lanthorn, a parrot, and the invariable baudrons of antiquity.

It was not my fault I was not a female bosk, like so many of the lasses of peasant stock.

Although she stood erect and utterly still, with her face calm and imperturbable, inwardly Centaine was seething with agitation, and Dandy Lass picked it up from her.

Where Amber joy 173 had ploughed on, getting ever further from the bird, Dandy Lass stopped and, treading water, looked back to where Centaine stood on the far bank.

Ladies and gentlemen, I ask you to welcome Mrs Centaine Courtney-Malcomess and Dandy Lass of Weltevreden.

On the dais, Dandy Lass curtsied politely in front of the prime minister, and at a word from Centaine offered him her right paw.

Iain MacKinnon: It didna matter to Iain whether I was a penniless crofter lass, or a Campbell and the daughter of an earl.

I trudged out into a hooing of damp and grisly wind, into the kind of gunmetal day when you wear your headlights turned on, and think of a roaring fire, hot buttered rum, a Dynel tigerskin, and a brown agile lass from Papeete.

The sun of spring shone, and she talked with him as merrily as any goatherd lass of his own village.

Discussions now took place as to where to sail, and Gow, who was in love with a lass in the Orkney Islands, suggested sailing thither, as being a good place to traffic their stolen goods.

He also told me not to let slip that the McGrath-Anderson team have just had a tip from a woman out in Howgate about a man taking a wee lass into a cottage out there this morning.

Volk gebracht hatte, konnte wissentlich nicht einmal einen Hund im Stich lassen.

Several of the lasses tittered, then cast him knowing glances over their shoulders.