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  • "Worthie," she admonished, "it's bad business for an army man to turn traitor."

    The Visioning Susan Glaspell 1915

  • Worthie friends, you would constraine me to the thing, wherewith

    The Decameron 2004

  • MSS. the _name_ of the "Worthie Knight" on whom this epitaph was composed, and give any particulars which can be ascertained concerning him.

    Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851 Various

  • "Pleasant Historic of Thomas of Reading; or, The Sixe Worthie Yeomen of the West," by Thomas Deloney, a famous ballad-maker of the 16th century.

    A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

  • Alesius, in 1534, takes notice of John Campbell of Cesnock having also been summoned and acquitted: see Rev.Chr. Anderson's Annals, vol.ii. p. 400; John Davidson's Memoriall of Two Worthie Chr.stians, &c., p. 10,

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • But it made difference enough for Aunt Kate to ask a moment later: "And how did it happen, Worthie, that this kindly philosopher should have deemed me worth knowing?"

    The Visioning Susan Glaspell 1915

  • "I'll tell you, Worthie," she suggested, looking up with twinkling eye after her young nephew had been experimenting with various intonations of

    The Visioning Susan Glaspell 1915

  • "Why so He did, Worthie -- that is, I suppose He did -- but He didn't just make you out of nothing."

    The Visioning Susan Glaspell 1915

  • Don't hitch your wagon to too far a star, Worthie.

    The Visioning Susan Glaspell 1915

  • The things that aren't nice about him aren't his fault, Worthie, so we mustn't be hard on him for them, must we?

    The Visioning Susan Glaspell 1915

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