lasses

This, my lads and lasses, is my very own Irish Toast.

It's Not Easy Being Green...(And Sober) mtrimm1 2006

The gentry of the neighbourhood as well as the country folk for miles around come flocking to the annual hiring of farm lads and lasses, which is the main business of the Fair.

A Book of Quaker Saints 1911

At length a venerable Triton, seconding his remonstrances with a hearty thump on my shoulder, cried out, 'To the floor -- to the floor, and let us see how ye can fling -- the lasses are a' waiting. '

Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801

Lavinia's line in the piece was simply to "walk on" among the "lasses" but she had the gratification of seeing her name announced in the advertisements -- a sufficient proof that she was rising in Rich's estimation.

Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' Charles Edward Pearce

For weeks, indeed to Christmas, Lavinia remained one of the "lasses" in

Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' Charles Edward Pearce

At length a venerable Triton, seconding his remonstrances with a hearty thump on my shoulder, cried out, ‘To the floor — to the floor, and let us see how ye can fling — the lasses are a’ waiting.’

Redgauntlet 2008

Time he 'gun ter waller in de water de' lasses 'gun ter melt, en 't wa'n't no time skacely' fo 'de' lasses en de leafs done all wash off, en dar 'uz ole

Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878

Time he 'gun ter waller in de water de' lasses 'gun ter melt, en 't wa'n't no time skacely' fo 'de' lasses en de leafs done all wash off, en dar 'uz ole

Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation Joel Chandler Harris 1878

Nah monny a one would wonder ha soa monny fowks could live an 'thrive i' sich a place -- aw wonder misen; an 'some wod wonder whear all th' fowk coom throo to fill ther chapels an 'church: but aw doant wonder at that, for wheriver there's a lot o' wimmen an 'lasses' at can spooart nice

Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877

Sometimes, in changing his dress, he would leave his neck-cloth coiled round it like a turban, and none of the "lasses" dared to remove it.

Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey Washington Irving 1821