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  • The so-called tweedles were never in the race this week.

    Five For Writing : Bev Vincent 2009

  • This time, we were supposed to pick between tweedles dum or dee on the question of perpetual war on Islam.

    Poll: Potential For A Huck Upset In Virginia 2009

  • And yet it was only an overture, a few pips and tweedles before the devil's band started to play for us in earnest.

    Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999

  • When 'tis hot summer weather there's nothing will do for him but Choir, Great, and Swell altogether, till yer face is in a vapour; and on a frosty winter night he'll keep me there while he tweedles upon the Twelfth and Sixteenth till my arms be scrammed for want of motion.

    The Hand of Ethelberta Thomas Hardy 1884

  • When ’tis hot summer weather there’s nothing will do for him but Choir, Great, and Swell altogether, till yer face is in a vapour; and on a frosty winter night he’ll keep me there while he tweedles upon the Twelfth and Sixteenth till my arms be scrammed for want of motion.

    The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

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