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
“Or a wee child. But you seem to have pluck, governess, and the girl is as fierce as a hyena, as I recall. Does she track prey as well as her brothers do?”
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
I’m sorry I misjudged him as I did, and I weer too hard upon him; but he hasn’t used me well, neither has Mrs Glaire.
From The Parson O' Dumford by Fenn, George Manville
“If I weer much along o’ that Rasp, it would soon come to a row.”
From Dutch the Diver A Man's Mistake by Fenn, George Manville
“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 Fenn, George Manville
Things are just where they weer, and unless Master Dick comes down, the works will keep shut.”
From The Parson O' Dumford by Fenn, George Manville
“Well, I weer a-talking about marriages,” said Joe, quietly; “so you take my advice and let things bide.”
From The Parson O' Dumford by Fenn, George Manville
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
“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
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 Lauder, Harry, Sir
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
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
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