girleen

And there she was right enough, that lovely sight enough, the girleen bawn asthore, as for days galore, of planxty Gregory.

Finnegans Wake 2006

Long, long ago, girleen, a harper's gallantry to a pretty maid angered her mother and she asked him to help her twist a straw rope.

Kenny Leona Dalrymple

"Happiness with the least unhappiness to others, girleen," he reminded with his cheek against her hair.

Kenny Leona Dalrymple

"She was in Brannigan's last night, buying peppermint drops and every kind of foolishness, the same as she might be a little girleen that was given a penny and her just out of school."

Priscilla's Spies George A. Birmingham 1907

You spake for me, Miss Nora; you spake up for me, girleen.

Light O' the Morning L. T. Meade 1884

"They say it's a sort of a craze now amongst women, the desire to beat us men on our own ground; it's very queer, and I don't understand it, and I am sorry if the craze has seized my girleen."

Light O' the Morning L. T. Meade 1884

Nora; and never one of them sacrificed her honor for gold or anything else; and the men were brave, girleen, very brave, and had never fear in one of them.

Light O' the Morning L. T. Meade 1884

I feel fit to die sometimes when I think the coat is lost, and it is all on account of the girleen herself.

Wild Kitty L. T. Meade 1884

Well, I'm here, the girleen has managed it, and here I'll stay.

Light O' the Morning L. T. Meade 1884

"Trust the girleen for that," said the Squire, and then they rose from table.

Light O' the Morning L. T. Meade 1884