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"ref": "1876, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, Sights and Insights: Patience Strong's Story of Over the Way, page 318",
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"text": "At first he felt somewhat wappered.",
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"ref": "2011, Diarmaid Ó Muirithe, Words We Don't Use (Much Anymore)",
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"ref": "1610, John Higgins, The Mirour for Magistrates",
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"ref": "1912 March 28, “Present-Day Criticism”, in The New Age, volume 10, number 22, page 519",
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"ref": "1930, The Cornhill Magazine, page 638",
"text": "She was wappering and seemed shot.",
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"ref": "1876, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, Sights and Insights: Patience Strong's Story of Over the Way, page 318",
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"text": "They monks be weedy batch! Make un wappered and whelmed! Make un moil! '",
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"text": "At first he felt somewhat wappered.",
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"text": "\"I be wappered,\" Catherine declared as she flung herself down upon the bed and assumed a pose that denoted complete exhaustion.",
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},
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},
{
"ref": "1634, Mateo Alemán, The Rogve: Or, The Life of Gvzman de Alfarache",
"text": "She was toothlesse, chap-falne, hollow-eyed, and wappering withall, her haire sluttishly hanging about her eares, unkempt, and as greazie as it was knotty;",
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},
{
"ref": "1912 March 28, “Present-Day Criticism”, in The New Age, volume 10, number 22, page 519",
"text": "Miss Mansfield abandons her salt furrow and in two stanzas lies flapping and wappering.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1930, The Cornhill Magazine, page 638",
"text": "She was wappering and seemed shot.",
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},
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"text": "his blue and white dotted tarentaal scarf wappering in the wind.",
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"text": "The Wapper had, just for the fun of it, put an iron pot under the hat.",
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},
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"ref": "2022, Edward Neville Vose, The Spell of Flanders",
"text": "Presently the good woman discovered to her horror that the foundling was swelling and becoming heavy, and when she put it down the Wapper assumed his own shape and ran off shrieking.",
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