quane

Sure what else but love for us poor bastes in the stokehole would be bringing a fine lady, dressed like a white quane, down a mile of ladders and steps to be havin’ a look at us?

Scene IV. The Hairy Ape 1922

Stick in some buttons for eyes, and a wee nose and mouth of red paper -- and stick the head on the body with some hair pins, and the quane herself niver had a better doll baby.

The White Christmas and other Merry Christmas Plays Walter Ben Hare 1915

'Oho!' sez I to mysilf, 'I'm a quane in me own right, wid a minister to pay me expenses.

Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

Now a palanquin means a native lady all the world over, except whin a soldier av the quane happens to be takin 'a ride.

Soldier Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

She may be the quane av Shaba, an 'she may be a Digger Injun Squaw, but the loikes av him had betther kape away from Kate Murphy.

Keith of the Border Randall Parrish 1890

An 'it's a good quane you'll make, too, av ye don't let the men have too much o' their own way.

The Island Queen 1859

And, thinks I, if I can find 'em now, sure the quane will be after takin 'care of me; and here I am. "

A Woman at Bay Or, a Fiend in Skirts Nicholas Carter

"Oho!" sez I to mysilf, "I'm a quane in me own right, wid a minister to pay me expenses.

Soldier Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

"Oho!" sez I to mysilf, "I'm a quane in me own right, wid a minister to pay me expenses.

Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

"Corporal of the guaod, the quane of all the South is coming down the road, riding a high stepper.

How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887 1878