Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Waled or picked out with the hand; carefully selected.
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Examples
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O, how will the wicked exult in the high places of their wickedness! — the prelatists, and the latitudinarians, and the hand-waled murderers, whose hands are hard as horn wi’ handing the slaughter-weapons — they will push out the lip, and say that we are even such as themselves.
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--- the prelatists, and the latitudinarians, and the hand-waled murderers, whose hands are hard as horn wi 'handing the slaughter-weapons
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-- the prelatists, and the latitudinarians, and the hand-waled murderers, whose hands are hard as horn wi 'handing the slaughter-weapons -- they will push out the lip, and say that we are even such as themselves.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801
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-- the prelatists, and the latitudinarians, and the hand-waled murderers, whose hands are hard as horn wi 'handing the slaughter-weapons -- they will push out the lip, and say that we are even such as themselves.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801
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