"Canna" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... wifie row'd up in a blanket, Nineteen times as high as the moon; And what she did there I canna declare, For in her oxter she ...
— Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories - A Book for Bairns and Big Folk • Robert Ford
... canna eat, And some would eat that want it; But we hae meat, and we can eat, Sae ...
— Familiar Quotations • John Bartlett
... "I canna' cry him without my bell," drawled the crier, stroking his shabby uniform. "My bell's at wum (home). I mun go and fetch my bell. Yo' write it down on a bit o' paper for me so as I can read it, and I'll ...
— The Old Wives' Tale • Arnold Bennett
... and she has rather forgotten hersel in speaking to my Leddy, that canna weel bide to be contradickit, (as I ken nobody likes it, if they ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) - With his Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore
... he'll be comin' here. Maybes he's comin' up the loan this verra meenit. Get me my best kep [cap], the French yin o' Flanders lawn trimmed wi' Valenceenes lace that Captain Wildfeather, of his Majesty's—But na, I'll no think o' thae times, I canna bear to think o' them wi' ony complaisance ava. But bring me ...
— The Lilac Sunbonnet • S.R. Crockett
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