Wanne

The third in a succession of four tough climbs over 25km Wanne, Stockeu, Haute-Levée and Rosier, the Haute-Levée is 3.4 km long and averages 5.6 percent gradient.

Côte de la Haute-Levée returns to 2011 Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2011

It was a self-important briefcase which I'd purloined from the stationery department and nicknamed Wanne.

between silk and cyanide Marks, Leo 1998

Wanne ha clepeþ of swiche þer bieþ into his seruise ine here childhede.

Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

Wanne hi of þis world wendeþ. beswo þet hi ne be ine no diadlich senne.

Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

Like a flash, Mad Wanne shot past, yelling and shrieking.

The Path of Life Stijn [pseud.] Streuvels 1920

Mad Wanne went alone; she kept on lurching across the street with her long legs, which stuck out far from under her skirt, and held her arms wide open under her hooded cloak, like a demon bat.

The Path of Life Stijn [pseud.] Streuvels 1920

From out of the ditch comes something creeping, a black shape that runs across the plain, chattering like a magpie: Mad Wanne, with her thin legs and her cloak wide open.

The Path of Life Stijn [pseud.] Streuvels 1920

Meanwhile little Wanne learned to spell, read, and translate almost intuitively; for there were novelty and hope to help the Buddhist child, and love to help the English woman.

The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok Anna Harriette Leonowens 1874

All that Wanne learned at school in the day was lovingly taught to Mai Noie in the nursery at night; and it was not long before I found, to my astonishment, that the slave read and translated as correctly as her mistress.

The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok Anna Harriette Leonowens 1874

The offence of the mother had made the daughter offensive in his sight; and it was not until long after the term of imprisonment of the degraded favorite had expired that Wanne ventured to appear at a royal _levée_.

The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok Anna Harriette Leonowens 1874