Citations:Jean

English citations of Jean

• 1788 Robert Burns, Of A' the Airts the Wind Can Blaw:

  There's not a bonnie flower that springs

  By fountain, shaw , or green,

  There's not a bonnie bird that sings

  But minds me o' my Jean.

• 1866 Louisa May Alcott, Behind a Mask, or a Woman's Power, Chapter II

  - - - Isn't Jean a pretty name?"

  "Not bad; but why don't you call her Miss Muir?"

  "She begged me not. She hates it, and loves to be called Jean, alone."

• 1972 Anne Tyler, The Clock Winder, Knopf, 1972, page 67

  He was trying to think of her name; she had come to cook him dinner twice last spring. - - - Jean, maybe. Or Betty. One of these plain names.