wee
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"Are they going to be in the top two, three? Yes, absolutely, don't worry about that City fans, but are you up there with Arsenal? You look a wee distance behind."
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
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
They didn't get back to Burger's hotel room until the wee hours of the morning.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
Furtado gaf 23 Maart 1603 bevel de troepen in te schepen2, slechtte het fort op Makjan weer en keerde naar Ambon en kort daarop naar Malakka terug.
“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
“Say, Joey, wast ta sewed in ’em when they weer made?”
From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn
“Poor Petrick!” said Sure-shot, as we descended the slope, “he weer the joyfulest kimrade I ever hed, an’ we must gi’ him the berril o’ a Christyan.
From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid
“When it used to be to the boy,” continued Sim, mimicking the other’s very slow drawling speech: “‘Joey, wilt thou bring me another brick?’ and then thou used to groan because it weer so heavy.”
From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn
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
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
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 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
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