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Examples
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-- If your Querist regarding a "Bawn" will look into Macnevin's _Confiscation of Ulster_ (Duffy: Dublin, 1846, p. 171. &c.), he will find that a Bawn must have been a sort of court-yard, which might be used on emergency as a fortification for defence.
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"Then hold thy tongue," Bawn cut in, and they separated in anger.
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"Then has there been witchcraft," Bawn continued stolidly enough, though he stole a sly glance at their faces.
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"How can that be, O Bawn?" the women chorussed indignantly.
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Bawn vociferated, "for that it hath brought worry upon us, and shame."
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Ya, the cause of it all, had been soundly thrashed, first by Hooniah, his mother, and then by his father, Bawn, and was now whimpering and looking pessimistically out upon the world from the shelter of the big overturned canoe on the beach.
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Bawn was next chosen, for it well might be that a man should steal his own blankets with intent to cast shame upon his neighbors.
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“Born in Boston,” he said, deliberately letting his native tongue say it as, Bawn in Bawstin.
VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010
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The villagers build a large igloo for Keesh and his mother, and on his next trip two young men, Bim and Bawn, follow him.
“And must I. . .who am weary, travel always your trail until I die?” 2008
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“Born in Boston,” he said, deliberately letting his native tongue say it as, Bawn in Bawstin.
VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010
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