wale
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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
Sae dainty, sae genty, sae canty an' keen, The wale o' the parish was Tipperty's Jean.
From Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride by Patrick Buchan
Ay," said Mrs. M'Cosh, "he's waited lang, but he's waled weel in the end.
From Penny Plain by O. Douglas
You 've waled out anither Your bridegroom to be; But can his heart luve sae As mine luvit thee?
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers
Cast yourself at His feet, and see if you do not get at His hands as rare an outgate and as wonderfully waled a cross as the very best of them got.
From Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents by Alexander Whyte
After breakfast my uncle went into the sitting-room where: "He waled a portion with judicious care, 'And let us worship God,' he says, with solemn air."
From Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee
I waled straight to Edmee's room, knocked, and entered at once.
From Mauprat by Stanley Young
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
