What is "swains"

Usage examples of "swains".

I assure you, Sir Knight, that if I had known of the effronteries of those village swains, they would all have borne fat ears!

I suppose the real reason you are going, visiting is that you have run through the County swains and are seeking fresh ones in fields afar.

She thought briefly of the County swains, the ragged embittered little Fontaines, the pov­erty-stricken Munroe boys, the Jonesboro and Fayetteville beaux who were so busy plowing, splitting rails and nursing sick old animals that they had forgotten such things as balls and pleasant flirtations ever existed.

Just how close to the edge of control he was had been demonstrated last night—he'd overheard two of her youthful swains referring to her as "Their Angel.

But all problems connected with infatuated swains vanished from her mind when she entered the homely, unsentimental atmosphere of the Green Gables kitchen where an eight-year-old boy was crying grievously on the sofa.

She pulled her arm away from Anne, as if in resentment, and ran downstairs, where she was gayer than ever, apparently so much absorbed in bantering her two swains that Diana and Anne felt rather out of it and soon went away.