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Definition of Shoneens
1. shoneen [n] - See also: shoneen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shoneens
Literary usage of Shoneens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of John Redmond by Warre Bradley Wells (1919)
"The Redmonds were never shoneens. Nevertheless, with their army and other
respectable connections, they held themselves in good esteem, and, as we shall see ..."
2. Shaw's Authenticated Report of the Irish State Trials, 1844 by Daniel O'Connell, Ireland Court of King's Bench (1844)
"What he meant by shoneens, he (the Chief Justice) did not know. " In 1798 there
were some brave men—some valiant men to head the people at large, ..."
3. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"... but we must have our own parliament, our own bench, our own magistrates, and
we will give some of the shoneens who now occupy the bench leave to retire, ..."
4. The World's Famous Orations. by Francis Whiting Halsey, William Jennings Bryan (1906)
"... our own magistrates, and we will give some of the shoneens who now occupy the
bench leave to retire, such as those lately appointed by Sugden. ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1902)
"The shoneens that came wid Cromwell, an' the Saxon lords wid their gold, Sure
there's none o' them matches the —‘s, that was famous chiefs of old! ..."
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