"Canna" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it is!" said she. "Such a time of rain! Indeed, sir, I canna think it right for you to go so far. Mightna ye just bide still at home till ...
— Allison Bain - By a Way she knew not • Margaret Murray Robertson
... beyond that, it was a most providential thing that the dog ran after yon wee rat. What most gets over me, though, is to think of the rat making its nest in the dead man's skull. Man! what a fright I had when the beast jumped out! As for how the siller came there, I canna just say; but, you mind, the dominie told us in the school that, lang syne, some of those viking lads used to cruise hereabout. Now, I'm thinking that it's just possible one of them had maybe left the siller for safety in the Kierfiold Cave where I—where we found it, and clean forgotten ...
— The Pilots of Pomona • Robert Leighton
... Malcomson, who was a Scotchman, "e'en because you will not allow me an under gerdener. No one man could manage your gerden, and it canna be managed without some clever ...
— Willy Reilly - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton
... with a hawthorn-bush couching over it, and turn to the left down that loaning, you'll come to it. It's a wee thatched house, needing a coat of whitewash. It's got a byre with a slate roof, and a rowan-tree near it. You canna' miss it." ...
— The Wind Bloweth • Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne
... "She canna understan' it," said Watty piteously. "She thocht it was a' talk to frechten her. Then we shall nivver see ...
— Steve Young • George Manville Fenn
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