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  • 'Winkle' is about the size of a tennis shoe and unusually sociable - I made 7 cage hammocks - he tried them all out. at

    slow news 2008

  • 'Winkle' is about the size of a tennis shoe and unusually sociable - I made 7 cage hammocks - he tried them all out. at

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • The pileup of all these ingredients, not to mention the hedgehog Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle from the Beatrix Potter books and cameo appearances by certain Alice in Wonderland characters, make Something Rotten more than clever they make it clever and a half.

    Something Rotten: Summary and book reviews of Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde. 2004

  • Mr. Winkle is a REAL dog, as genuine as the underdogs he celebrates in A Winkle in Time.

    Boing Boing: May 25, 2003 - May 31, 2003 Archives 2003

  • By my reckoning, there's just one flipper left on these networks' schedules-Rob Van Winkle, aka Vanilla Ice-but the producers tend to stay mum about his motivations for transforming a tired Palm Beach mansion into "the coolest crib on the Intracoastal" in

    Slate Articles June Thomas 2012

  • But to make it to the winner's circle, they'll have to impress a judging panel made up of Jann Arden, Pierre Bouvier, the lead vocalist for the pop punk band Simple Plan, and Rob Van Winkle, a.k.a.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed DAVE McGINN 2011

  • But to make it to the winner's circle, they'll have to impress a judging panel made up of Jann Arden, Pierre Bouvier, the lead vocalist for the pop punk band Simple Plan, and Rob Van Winkle, a.k.a.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed DAVE McGINN 2011

  • But to make it to the winner's circle, they'll have to impress a judging panel made up of Jann Arden, Pierre Bouvier, the lead vocalist for the pop punk band Simple Plan, and Rob Van Winkle, a.k.a.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed DAVE McGINN 2011

  • "Winkle," a corresponding member also; and a something of a sportsman.

    Pickwickian Studies Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald 1879

  • No adroit counsel would run the risk of encountering a too conscientious witness, such as Winkle proved to be and who would "let the cat out of the bag."

    Bardell v. Pickwick Charles Dickens 1841

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