Your Uncle Peter Kenned he had ance been in the theayter, a sort o' an actor body an' he couldna thole that.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
Ye ha'e Kenned naethin' aboot it."
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
Findin a' quiet again, she seemed to renounce a' fear; though I secretly suspected that she Kenned weel aneugh the cause o' the noise, for I had detected the hinder part o' my body in a higher state o' elevation than my will or security warranted, being considerably abune the broom, and, therefore, plainly in her ee.
"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX"
Alexander Leighton