"Gean" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... This was Gean, the Giraffe, and she belonged to a tribe which boasted of the fact that they were the tallest of all animals. But they were not aggressive about it at all, for giraffes are the most modest and gentle ...
— Rataplan • Ellen Velvin
... both black and red, common in gardens, is in Scotland, never in England, termed gean (Fr. guigne), ...
— Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character • Edward Bannerman Ramsay
... every known pattern and of every size, from the great three-inch hook for heavy spring water to the dainty little "finnock" hook scarcely larger than a trout fly. A suitable receptacle was constructed for this collection from the timber of the "Auld Gean Tree of Elchies"—the largest of its kind in all Scotland—whose trunk had a diameter of nearly four feet and whose branches had a spread of over twenty yards. The "Auld Gean Tree" fell into its dotage and was cut down to the strains of a "lament," ...
— Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places • Archibald Forbes |
