wee
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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
"Everybody knew me as the wee girl with the marks," Laura explained.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 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
Everyone knew a baby was either a girl, like Bethans new sister, or a wee boy.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
“That weer her as see owd Ransome’s wife makking the pie.”
From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn
“No, miss,” said Tom, not seeing the warm flush in the girl’s face, “a note as weer sent last night to my Daisy, and which she give to me an hour ago.”
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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