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Colleen   Listen
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Colleen  n.  A girl; a maiden. (Anglo-Irish) "Of all the colleens in the land Sweet Mollie is the daisy."






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"Colleen" Quotes from Famous Books



... ye; an' 'twould ha' been the like if 'twere Irish. Now I ha' the advantage o' gittin' it both sides. Me mother's eyes were as blue as any colleen's in all Leinster, while the father o' me was from Argyll, which is sayin' muckle. The one was papist an' the father a Presbyterian. When they tell ye oil an' water'll not ...
— Rodney, the Ranger - With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield • John V. Lane

... sought literary fame in London in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. At the age of twenty he was writing tales of Munster life. In 1829 he became popular through the tale of "The Collegians," here epitomised—a tale that has held the stage to the present day under the title of "The Colleen Bawn." Nine years later, Griffin renounced literature, returned to Ireland, and entered the Church, and on June 12, 1840, died in a monastery at Cork. A tragedy written in his early days was produced successfully by Macready after Griffin's death. His ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Volume V. • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.



Words linked to "Colleen" :   miss, missy, young woman



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