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Example sentences for: swain

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Prudie thinks it would be wonderful to be seen by another swain and cannot imagine why you would want to pretend to be otherwise dateless in what you describe as "the initial stages of dating" this new person.
, Poet of the Poor (George Crabbe), Attic Bee (Sophocles), Madman of the North (Charles XII of Sweden), Manchester Poet (Charles Swain), Great Prussian Drill-sergeant (Frederick William I), etc.)
After her own musical career recedes, Hilary (Rachel Griffiths) retreats to a bucolic country cottage with her love-smitten swain of a husband (David Morrissey) and her children.
That's the downside of Return to Paradise , which hinges on whether a noncommittal ne'er-do-well swain (played by Vince Vaughn) "has it in him" to submit to an imprisonment that will be at best harrowing and at worst fatal.