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FOR A WHILE, whey seemed like the most trendsetting ingredient this side of Miss Muffet: Whey-braised lamb, whey butter, whey lemonade, whey-celeriac soup and whey-stewed chanterelles all have sprung up on Seattle menus.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 30, 2024

"WHILE a newsboy on the railroad," says Edison, "I got very much interested in electricity, probably from visiting telegraph offices with a chum who had tastes similar to mine."

From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Dyer, Frank Lewis

"WHILE Thee I seek, protecting Power," was the first hymn on this particular Sunday morning, and it usually held Patty's rather vagrant attention to the end, though it failed to do so to-day.

From Story of Waitstill Baxter by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith