wee
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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
"I'm just a wee bit upset with the number of caps you've got with Scotland," the 75-year-old told him.
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
The 34th segment is a wee bit too short; the half-inch ruler juts out a little beyond the corner of the square.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
“Say, Joey, wast ta sewed in ’em when they weer made?”
From The Parson O' Dumford by Fenn, George Manville
“Well, I weer, sir; only I shouldn’t like it to seem to ha’ come from me.
From The Parson O' Dumford by Fenn, George Manville
“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 Reid, Mayne
"Oudt! oudt weer?" asked Schults, pausing with a tray of onions in his hands.
From Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre. by Thorne, Jack
“What weer it about t’owd one?” said another.
From The Parson O' Dumford by Fenn, George Manville
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 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 Lauder, Harry, Sir
“She had the weest, teentiest toes, And the leastest speck of a blackish nose, With great, great eyes”—“Coo, coo! coo, coo!”
From Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad by Dale, Daphne
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 O'Neill, Eugene
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 Sidgwick, Frank
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