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• "I ate wan, and I didn't taste the shtuff till it was down But you couldn't taste it, man Sure, sor, but I did quite sthrong," groaned Tim, sinking on one of the divans But tell me, how do you feel Horrid bad, sor; shlapy, and it's creeping up me legs. —  The Rajah of Dah
• After Pauline_--rejected utterance of his green-sickness--the wan, the wistful, moods of love find seldom recognition; there are no withdrawals "from all fear" into the woman's arms, and no looking up, "as I might kill her and be loved the more," into the man's eyes. —  Browning's Heroines
• He looked thin and wan, the light was gone out of his black eyes, and his countenance was in sad contrast to his gay and absurd attire. —  The Armourer's Prentices
• Thees wan--m-m-m-m--only $68; but wiz ze hat also, $93 And the gasp that gets out of Peyton sounds like openin' an airbrake Nine-ty three dollars!" —  Torchy and Vee
• It was more than pale,--it was wan--it was sickly. —  Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author

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