"Lass" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that b'y, Mr. Geoffrey. Hermy'll be glad. You'll have heard of poor little Maggie Finlay? Poor lass—poor, lonely lass! 'T was her father drove her to it, an' now he's had a fit—a stroke, the doctor's with him now—an' Hermy, of course! She's always around where trouble is. I guess there won't be much rest for her to-night—long past midnight now! I'm glad you found that ...
— The Definite Object - A Romance of New York • Jeffery Farnol
... no little lass now, Mr. Bateson," argued Mrs. Hankey; "Lucy Ellen must be forty, if ...
— The Farringdons • Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler
... was young, lad, And all the trees were green; And every goose a swan, lad, And every lass ...
— Heiress of Haddon • William E. Doubleday
... an hour screwing up my courage to find fault with some subordinate whom my duty compelled me to reprove, and how often have I jeered at myself for a fraud as the doughty platform combatant, when shrinking from blaming some lad or lass for doing their work badly! An unkind look or word has availed to make me shrink into myself as a snail into its shell, while on the platform opposition makes me speak my best. So I slid into marriage blindly and stupidly, fearing to give pain; fretted my heart ...
— Annie Besant - An Autobiography • Annie Besant
... method of choosing Valentines in his time, viz. that the lad's Valentine was the first lass he spied in the morning, who was not an inmate of the house; and the lass's Valentine was the first young ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 13, No. 356, Saturday, February 14, 1829 • Various
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