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Example sentences for "wile"

Lexicographically close words:
wildly; wildness; wildon; wilds; wildwood; wiled; wiles; wilful; wilfull; wilfully
  1. O a heavier weird light her upon Than ever fell on wile woman; Her hair's grow rough, an her teeth's grow lang, An on her four feet sal she gang.

  2. O a heavier weird light her upon Than ever fell on wile woman!

  3. But this was before feminine wile had struggled with feminine vanity, and feminine wile won the day.

  4. But not even Hillocks, with all his blandishments, could wile them within doors that evening.

  5. Never, oh never, hast thou worked a wile So barren of all good!

  6. Who wonders at variety of wile In the Arch-cheat?

  7. I shall dodge meantime In and out station-precinct, wile away The hour till up my engine pants and smokes.

  8. What i' the way Of wile should have allowance like a kiss Sagely and sisterly administered, Sororia saltem oscula?

  9. Sir, this way of wile were good to catch, But I have not the sleight of it.

  10. XCIII "Your next step showed a touch of the true means Whereby desert is crowned: not force but wile Came to the rescue.

  11. You tell me she is dying now, or dead; I cannot bring myself to quite believe This is a place you torture people in: What if this your intelligence were just A subtlety, an honest wile to work On a man at unawares?

  12. I scarcely know a more subtle or more successful wile of the devil than this.

  13. To the devil's wile in Eden, as the occasion, though not the cause, unfallen angels and ransomed men will for ever be indebted for that specific work of their Creator which will most attract their eyes and inspire their songs.

  14. Pronounce not that name: a bait, a trap, a wile of Satan; repeat it, and I will tear you piecemeal!

  15. Blessed and beautiful are the smiles of the sad-hearted, worn to wile away another's cares!

  16. This object being accomplished, afforded another severe chase of several miles, in a direction almost circular, during which the poor animal tried every wile to get rid of his persecutors.

  17. She uster be Miss Wile Grape Vine 'fo' she take an' marry ole man Holl'r Tree.

  18. Miss Wile Grape done whin Mist'r Wise Oak tell her long time ergo ter stop keepin' comp'ny wid Holl'r Tree.

  19. Dey so bizzy wid der confab, dat dey ain' notice Mist'r Wile Cat settin' up on er lim' er de tree.

  20. Mr. Jinks would wile the affections of Miss Redbud from him, fixing the said affections on himself; but that is not possible, since the young lady in question has gone home, and Apple Orchard is too far to walk.

  21. I have been trying to wile away the time with the manuscript of my poem, sir--but it won't do.

  22. But even less in form than face did the man of thews and sinews contrast the man of wile and craft.

  23. And ever onc't in a wile you hear a hoss scream.

  24. Nor hounds alone this noxious brood destroy: The plundered warrener full many a wile Devises to entrap his greedy foe, Fat with nocturnal spoils.

  25. Slips glancing by; while, at the further end, The puzzling pack unravel wile by wile, Maze within maze.

  26. Don't wile her passionate young heart away and then leave her to pine and die.

  27. My old moke flung a shoe and went dead lame at Dogtrap; an' wile I was saddlun another, Mrs Butler stuffed 'em in me pocket.

  28. Sad, quiet days in her room, and strange nights keeping up the fire and watching the dear little shadow try to wile away the long sleepless hours without troubling me.

  29. Father and Mother were with me night and day, and May sang "Birks of Aberfeldie," or read to me, to wile away the tiresome hours.

  30. For she sat on the crest of Olympus beneath the golden clouds, by the wile of white-armed Hera, who held her afar in jealous grudge, because even then fair-tressed Leto was about bearing her strong and noble son.

  31. Thou evil one of many wiles, what other wile devisest thou?

  32. Now tell me by what wile the strong host of many guests deceived thee?

  33. With arch of brow, with beck and smile, With every passion-waking wile Of glance and lotus hand, With all enticements that excite The longing for unknown delight Which boys in vain withstand.

  34. Such is the history of that concubine Kut al-Kulub and she fell not into the hand of the Bhang-eater save by the wile and guile of the Sultan's cousin-wife.

  35. But he knew not what the Almighty had decreed to him through the wile and guile, the malice and mischief of women.


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