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- proper noun A patronymic
surname .
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The Chesapeake, Captain Willet, screw-steamer, of 460 tons, one of a line of freight and passenger steamers sailing between New York and Portland, Maine, left New York on the 5th ult., on her regular trip to Portland.
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And Dr. Walter Willet is chairman of the Nutrition Department at Harvard School of Public Health.
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And Dr. Walter Willet is chairman of the Nutrition Department at Harvard School of Public Health.
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And Dr. Walter Willet is chairman of the Nutrition Department at Harvard School of Public Health.
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And Dr. Walter Willet is chairman of the Nutrition Department at Harvard School of Public Health.
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And Dr. Walter Willet is chairman of the Nutrition Department at Harvard School of Public Health.
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And Dr. Walter Willet is chairman of the Nutrition Department at Harvard School of Public Health.
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And Dr. Walter Willet is chairman of the Nutrition Department at Harvard School of Public Health.
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About a bird known as the Willet, shown with a worm squirming in its beak, we read: "The May date of this drawing tells us that Audubon crossed paths with the Willet during the spring migration between its wintering grounds on the Gulf Coast of Mexico and the Caribbean and its breeding areas in wetlands of the interior West."
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They called Willet, and the three, leaving the crest which had been such a refuge for them and which they had defended so well, descended to the fountain.
The Masters of the Peaks A Story of the Great North Woods 1890
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