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Further pursuit was useless; but the boats still lingered in their wake to pick up what drugged whales might be dropped astern, and likewise to secure one which Flask had killed and waifed.
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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Further pursuit was useless; but the boats still lingered in their wake to pick up what drugged whales might be dropped astern, and likewise to secure one which Flask had killed and waifed.
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And by those laws, he hath right of life and death over all stranded and waifed on his coast.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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And by those laws, he hath right of life and death over all stranded and waifed on his coast.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 09 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Every room had piles of moth balls in the closets and on all the drains to reduce the sewer smells which waifed upwards into the room.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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Whereupon we separated the dead and hurt bodies, and manned the ship with the rest, and were so well incouraged wee waifed them amaine.
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