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They taught growing girls the timetable of dress—nightgown and wrapper; day dress and visiting; tea gown, dinner dress and evening gown—and gave them hands-on training with a wee wardrobe, which they often sewed themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

Fighting scams keeps Jones up into the wee hours, and he often has dozens of tabs open on his computer at once.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Open titlist, called the evening “completely insane” and said finding her best tennis in the wee hours of the morning was difficult.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

The young mum spent nine months with her baby - a beautiful boy with "gorgeous wee black hair" - before he was taken from her.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

“I forgot them. Here we are starving and the limpets are swimming around in their pail behind the stone wall outside. They must think they’re arrived in a strange wee ocean.”

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

Denzelfden dag scheepten zij zich dus weer in, deden 16 Oct.

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“Say, Joey, wast ta sewed in ’em when they weer made?”

From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn

“We-ell, Mister Tigg, we weer cleer beat at fust; an’ didn’t know what to do—neyther me’r my pertner.

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid

“Well, I weer a-talking about marriages,” said Joe, quietly; “so you take my advice and let things bide.”

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

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

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

To-day is Quentin's birthday and he loved his gifts, perhaps most of all the weest, cunningest live pig you ever saw, presented him by Straus.

From Letters to His Children by Theodore Roosevelt

They built, and they presented to me, the weest piano ever you saw—a piano so wee that it could be carried in an ordinary motor car.

From A Minstrel in France by Sir Harry Lauder

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