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wale

[weyl] / weɪl /


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The fugues, meanwhile, weave something more like the wale of a domestic fabric.

From Washington Post Jan. 8, 2022

So there will be swimming, swinging, climbing, leaping and harpooning from tall, bent-steel pipes that form the ship and ribs of the great white wale.

From Washington Post Nov. 17, 2016

The rapper then launched into a not-suitable-for-work rant against a former magazine editor who tweeted, “if i’m trump i’m pushing the narrative that obama really put wale on his playlist in an effort to undermine his administration.”

From Washington Post Aug. 11, 2016

Resoled in Saratoga, riveting in a wide wale suit, I use law, Ed.

From Time Apr. 4, 2015

For the side of the tray weave one row of 4-rod wale and finish the ends in the usual way.

From Practical Basketry by Anna A. Gill

Ay," said Mrs. M'Cosh, "he's waited lang, but he's waled weel in the end.

From Penny Plain by O. Douglas

All nite long the bereaved inmates uv that wunst happy but now distracted home wept and waled in agony wich wuz perfectly heart rendin.

From "Swingin Round the Cirkle." His Ideas Of Men, Politics, And Things, As Set Forth In His Letters To The Public Press, During The Year 1866. by Thomas Nast

Glencairn, He saw mischief was brewin; An' like a godly, elect bairn, He's waled us out a true ane, And sound, this day.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

But just as I was growin’ vext He waled a maist judeecious text, An’, launchin’ into his prelections, Swoopt, wi’ a skirl, on a’ defections.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

It is, by the by, the origin of our "valet" in its sense of boy or servant who is popularly addressed Yá waled.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Through sobbing and waling, he said he was sorry and couldn’t believe it had happened.

From Washington Times Apr. 18, 2015

Forced crying and waling is a big thing is North Korea.

From The Verge Dec. 28, 2014

White Sox starter John Danks lasted six innings, giving up one run on three hits while waling four and striking out three.

From Chicago Tribune Apr. 17, 2014

“It was all so beautiful,” she said, waling past the headquarter’s once grand entrance.

From New York Times Nov. 21, 2012

Already she knew that Robert must be within-sides at the head of the table, "waling the portions"; for it was Robert in his quality of family priest and judge, not the gifted Gilbert, who officiated.

From Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson




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