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  • You can vit into an eight, vight? she asked, puffing on her cigarette covered in her red lipstick while creating smoke rings the size of bangle bracelets.

    You’ll Never Blue Ball in This Town Again Heather McDonald 2010

  • A country fellow, scratching his head, answered him: “I don’t know, measter, un’t I; an’t please your honour, here hath been a vight, I think, between Goody Brown and Moll Seagrim.

    VIII. A Battle Sung by the Muse in the Homerican Style. Book IV 1917

  • Jan washed his face in the water-meadows, and went stout-heartedly home, where Master Lake beat him afresh, as he ironically said, "to teach him to vight young varments like himself instead of minding his book."

    Jan of the Windmill Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

  • A country fellow, scratching his head, answered him: “I don’t know, measter, un’t I; an’t please your honour, here hath been a vight, I think, between Goody Brown and Moll Seagrim.”

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

  • “Ve must vight to the last tr-r-op of our plood!” said the colonel, thumping the table; “and ve must tie for our Emperor, and zen all vill pe vell.

    War and Peace 2003

  • "Ve must vight to the last tr-r-op of our plood!" said the colonel, thumping the table; "and ve must tie for our Emperor, and zen all vill pe vell.

    War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869

  • Smith's aunt (with whom, in lieu of parents, the boy lived), and though Abel expressed his anxiety to go down and "teach Willum to vight one of his own zize," Jan steadily rejected their help, and said manfully, "Jan bean't feared of un.

    Jan of the Windmill Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

  • A country fellow, scratching his head, answered him: "I don't know, measter, un't I; an't please your honour, here hath been a vight, I think, between Goody Brown and Moll

    History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Henry Fielding 1730

  • & absolutely remise, release, and quitt claime unto Thomas Smith all my right title and interest, that I haue hath or hereafter may or ought to haue by vight of dower or other - wise to or in y° Bmisses in y° within written deed or convey - ance from my saW husband Peter Olliver unto the said Thomas Smith as aforesaide.

    Suffolk deeds 1653

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