wee
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Weak and tired, Jackie was scooped up from the north shore of Big Bear Lake in the wee hours of Saturday by a team from the San Dimas Raptor Rescue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
In the wee hours of Sunday, Herambh Karmarkar’s wife received two messages from her seafarer husband, who was aboard a ship that had just safely crossed the Strait of Hormuz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
"Chile needs to grow and this bill makes it possible," Finance Minister Jorge Quiroz said after the chamber approved the reforms in the wee hours of Thursday.
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
The Daily Monitor said on X that the newspaper and its fellow outlets were ordered to close "in a crackdown during the wee hours of Sunday".
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
The lady’s shriek was so sharp and sudden that everyone looked down to see if a wee mousie was scurrying about, but her round, doll-like eyes were fixed on the Incorrigibles.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
“Say, Joey, wast ta sewed in ’em when they weer made?”
From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn
“No, miss,” said Tom, not seeing the warm flush in the girl’s face, “a note as weer sent last night to my Daisy, and which she give to me an hour ago.”
From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn
Catch’t e the burd-lime’s trecherus twigs, To weer he chanc’d to stray, The burd iz fassend fathers leaves, Then gladly flies away.
From Random Rhymes and Rambles by William Aldis Wright
“What time weer it to be, lad?” whispered Harry.
From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn
I niver see a playhouse, but Sammy Mason wint to one i’ London, and he towd me what it were like, and the chutch I went into i’ the City weer just like it.
From Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family by George Manville Fenn
He, the "old bird," the cool hand, the sharp one of Ours, to have been done brown, to be the joke of the mess, the laugh of all the men, down to the weest drummer-boy!
From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida
You're sure you've never regretted—never had the weest doubt that it might have been better with—someone else?
From The First Man by Eugene O'Neill
They wente up to the Saylis, These yemen all three; They loked est, they loked weest, They myght no man see.
From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Frank Sidgwick
D'ye mind the wee lassie that was sae still till she began to know ye—the weest one of them a'?
From Between You and Me by Sir Harry Lauder
“She had the weest, teentiest toes, And the leastest speck of a blackish nose, With great, great eyes”—“Coo, coo! coo, coo!”
From Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad by Daphne Dale
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