"Mavourneen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... child, my child, my darlin',' she sobbed, 'are you gone from me? are you gone from me? Ah, mavourneen, mavourneen, you'll never come back alive to me again. The crathur that slept on my bosom—the lovin' crathur that I was so proud of—they'll kill him, they'll ...
— The Purcell Papers - Volume I. (of III.) • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
... done, she looked at Eileen's fingers. "It's not so bad at all, mavourneen, praise be to God," she said. "Sure, I thought I had you killed entirely, the way ...
— The Irish Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins
... that Ellie was generally cheery and blithe? Perhaps her mother's prayer each morning, as she bade her good-bye to go to work, had most to do with it. "May Jesus and His Blessed Mother watch over you, mavourneen!" the good woman would say, with a sigh at the ...
— Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir • Mary Catherine Crowley |
