witling

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Witling Victor Moore as Public Enemy No. 13 in a first-rate musicomedy with Cole Porter music.

From Time Magazine Archive

In this guise he stood blinking and winking in the glare of light, and pattering out his excuses with as many bows and scrapes as Sir Peter Witling in the play.

From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

While thro' the press enrag'd Thalestris flies, And scatters death around from both her eyes, A Beau and Witling perish'd in the throng, One died in metaphor, and one in song.

From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Pope, Alexander

The two eldest brothers wanted to catch a couple and cook them, but Witling would not allow it, and said, "Leave the creatures alone, I will not suffer them to be killed."

From Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm by Crane, Lucy

But Witling prevented them, saying, "Leave the little creatures alone, I will not suffer them to be stifled."

From Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm by Crane, Lucy