Citations:ken

Verb

 * 1793, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel
 * and he kenned
 * In the beautiful lady the child of his friend !
 * 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XLI, lines 21-22
 *  But here in London streets I ken
 *  No such helpmates

Thieves den

 * 1816, John Keats, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, lines 9-10
 * Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
 * When a new planet swims into his ken;
 * 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, VII
 * I have seen phantoms there that were as men
 * And men that were as phantoms flit and roam;
 * Marked shapes that were not living to my ken,