Read full poem →Oh, the dear hand. Yes, I’ll look after ’em.
They shan’t know want--and I won’t go away----
The way I’d wish to go. I’ll bear my life
Dictionary Entry
Unfair, harsh
In a Sentence
“Here man! that's pure shan that like”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “shan”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Can’t see!--I’ve lost my way,
And I shan’t--never--any more come home!
Read full poem →"Fred, after all I said! You shan't make out
That it was any way but what it was.
Read full poem →Foul the grinterns, give up thrift.”
_Wife_.—“If ye break my best blue china, children, I shan’t care or
ho.”
Read full poem →Which I shan't manage now. Unless it's yours.
I shall stay in you, friend, for some few hours.
