wamble

• The black bulk of Kelpie lay outstretched on the yellow sand, giving now and then a sprawling kick or a wamble like a lumpy snake, and her soul commiserated each movement as if it had been the last throe of dissolution, while the grey fire of the mare's one visible fierce eye, turned up from the shadow of Malcolm's superimposed bulk, seemed to her tender heart a mute appeal for woman's help As Malcolm spoke, he cautiously shifted his position, and, half rising, knelt with one knee where he had sat before, looking observant at Lady Clementina. —  The Marquis of Lossie
• "She may shail, but she'll never wamble," replied his wife, decisively. —  The Woodlanders
• No wonder, Master Ephraim, thy entrails are moved and wamble. —  Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby, and Silas Gough, Clerk
• 'How that wheel do wamble,' said Molly at last. —  The Trumpet-Major
• Selah CHAPTER VII Now it had come to pass years before, and was on record That MASON, having been asked to visit Boston Replied, 'Verily, verily, I say unto you that I will not set foot therein again save as an ambassador to that land Now these things were remembered against him, and printed in all the papers, even in the Boston papers printed they them And they bare him into prison, with SLIDELL, and poor EUSTIS was he borne of them And they seemed extremely wamble-cropt and chop-fallen; their feathers shone not, even their sickle-feathers drooped in the dust, and their combs were white And they seemed as unclean men caught in their unrighteousness, who had been sold uncommonly cheap, with nary buyer And they took from them the gold which they had stolen afore-time from UNCLE SAM, even the bills upon the Hebrews did they yield up. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

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