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Weasel

June 22, 2015October 28, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word
  • 02.042 I don’t suppose even a weasel would have stirred a whisker at it.
  • 04.049 as swift as weasels
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Weave

June 22, 2015October 28, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word
  • 08.100 are weaving webs to wind me.
  • 08.115 to weave their webs all round them again
  • 16.036 in a net woven of the glint of frosty stars.
  • 19.013 Sing we now softly, and dreams let us weave him!
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Web

June 22, 2015October 28, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word
  • 08.081 he saw that it was made by spider-webs
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Wedge

June 22, 2015October 28, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word
  • 05.146 His buttons had got wedged on the edge of the door
  • 12.100 and getting up he kicked away the stone that wedged the door.
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Weed

June 22, 2015October 28, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word
  • 09.053 Past the marsh’s waving weeds,
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Whack

June 22, 2015October 28, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word
  • 02.070 while Tom whacked at them both
  • 08.093 whack,
  • 08.118 and the whacking of sticks
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Whiff

June 22, 2015October 28, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word
  • 12.044 with scarcely a snore more than a whiff of unseen steam,
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Whirl

June 22, 2015October 28, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word
  • 05.119 in a whirl
  • 12.027 or fly whirling round
  • 13.049 A whirl of bats frightened from slumber
  • 14.024 a gushing whirl,
  • 17.040 another blackness could be seen whirling forward;
  • 17.046 and whirled above them shutting out the light
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Wield

June 22, 2015October 28, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word
  • 17.031 in battle they wielded heavy two-handed mattocks;
  • 17.051 wielding their mattocks,
  • 17.056 Thorin wielded his axe with mighty strokes,
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Willow

June 22, 2015October 28, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word
  • 02.030 and willows along its banks bent
  • 19.013 Lullaby! Lullaby! Alder and Willow!
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