girleen

• “And there she was right enough, that lovely sight enough, the girleen bawn asthore, as for days galore, of planxty Gregory.”

  Finnegans Wake

• “Long, long ago, girleen, a harper's gallantry to a pretty maid angered her mother and she asked him to help her twist a straw rope.”

  Kenny

• “Happiness with the least unhappiness to others, girleen," he reminded with his cheek against her hair.”

  Kenny

• “She was in Brannigan's last night, buying peppermint drops and every kind of foolishness, the same as she might be a little girleen that was given a penny and her just out of school.”

  Priscilla's Spies

• “Nora; and never one of them sacrificed her honor for gold or anything else; and the men were brave, girleen, very brave, and had never fear in one of them.”

  Light O' the Morning

• “Well, I'm here, the girleen has managed it, and here I'll stay.”

  Light O' the Morning

• “Trust the girleen for that," said the Squire, and then they rose from table.”

  Light O' the Morning

• “You spake for me, Miss Nora; you spake up for me, girleen.”

  Light O' the Morning

• “They say it's a sort of a craze now amongst women, the desire to beat us men on our own ground; it's very queer, and I don't understand it, and I am sorry if the craze has seized my girleen.”

  Light O' the Morning

• “I feel fit to die sometimes when I think the coat is lost, and it is all on account of the girleen herself.”

  Wild Kitty

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