winner

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Last week the Lancet, British medical weekly, put in its two-pennyworth�a diatribe against the louse which rivaled Robert Burns's "ugly, creepin', blastit wonner, detested, shunn'd by saunt an' sinner."

From Time Magazine Archive

That’s her—the very article; rather a wonner, too.

From Boycotted And Other Stories by Reed, Talbot Baines

"But though he michtna objec' till a father 'at he wasna jist Hector or Golia' o' Gath," she said, "ye canna wonner 'at the yoong laad no carin' to hae sic a mither."

From Malcolm by MacDonald, George

I hearn Tommy talkin’ sunthin’ to Carabi and I catched these words, “I wonner, oh, I wonner what good it duz ’em to kiss that toe.”

From Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Holley, Marietta

Troth, it's nae wonner ye haena ane left.

From Robert Falconer by MacDonald, George