canna

• * The name canna comes from the Celtic word for "cane." —  Blisstree
• Dun ye know aught o' these things--canna ye tell me if I shall meet my poor lad again And then Olive, casting one glance at Mr. Gwynne, who remained motionless, sat down beside the childless father, and talked to him of God--not the Infinite Unknown, into whose mysteries the mightiest philosophers may pierce and find no end--but the God mercifully revealed, "Our Father which is in heaven"--He to whom the poor, the sorrowing, and the ignorant may look, and not be afraid Long she spoke; simply, meekly, and earnestly. —  Olive A Novel
• Ye canna, if ye would; her Church will have a word to say to that For all his aping the manner of the ignored father, I shrewdly suspected that he knew more about the ins and outs of our affair than he owned to. —  The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady
• When I go back to the house to talk to him I'll ax him if tha' canna' come an' see him to-morrow mornin'--an' bring tha' creatures wi' thee--an' then--in a bit, when there's more leaves out, an' happen a bud or two, we'll get him to come out an' tha' shall push him in his chair an' we'll bring him here an' show him everything When she stopped she was quite proud of herself. —  The Secret Garden
• An' then a while more an' ye want to get to yer feet an' walk, and ye canna; an' a while more an' ye want to lift up yer hand, an' ye canna--an' in a while more ye're just forgotten an' done wi JOHN. —  The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays

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