wale
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The fugues, meanwhile, weave something more like the wale of a domestic fabric.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2022
So there will be swimming, swinging, climbing, leaping and harpooning from tall, bent-steel pipes that form the ship and ribs of the great white wale.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2016
The rapper then launched into a not-suitable-for-work rant against a former magazine editor who tweeted, “if i’m trump i’m pushing the narrative that obama really put wale on his playlist in an effort to undermine his administration.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2016
Resoled in Saratoga, riveting in a wide wale suit, I use law, Ed.
From Time ● Apr. 4, 2015
"You got your wale o' se'en sisters, And I got mine o' five; Sae tak ye mine, and I's tak thine,75 And we nae mair sall strive."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
You 've waled out anither Your bridegroom to be; But can his heart luve sae As mine luvit thee?
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles
But just as I was growin' vext He waled a maist judeecious text, An', launchin' into his prelections, Swoopt, wi' a skirl, on a' defections.
From Underwoods by Stevenson, Robert Louis
The enervating softness was at work on Peter's head, too, and from time to time, as he waled, he wiped his nose on his sleeve.
From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas
I waled straight to Edmee's room, knocked, and entered at once.
From Mauprat by Young, Stanley
Cast yourself at His feet, and see if you do not get at His hands as rare an outgate and as wonderfully waled a cross as the very best of them got.
From Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents by Whyte, Alexander
Through sobbing and waling, he said he was sorry and couldn’t believe it had happened.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 18, 2015
Forced crying and waling is a big thing is North Korea.
From The Verge ● Dec. 28, 2014
White Sox starter John Danks lasted six innings, giving up one run on three hits while waling four and striking out three.
From Chicago Tribune ● Apr. 17, 2014
“It was all so beautiful,” she said, waling past the headquarter’s once grand entrance.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2012
It has been extensively used for retaining wall work by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. The studding and waling are framed in units as shown.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Gillette, Halbert Powers
