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- noun Plural form of
whortleberry .
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Examples
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Wild strawberries and raspberries are found in some places, but they arc such poor tasteless things as to be hardly worth eating, and there is nothing to compare with our blackberries and whortleberries.
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It looks to be a fine year for berries, yes; whortleberries, crowberries, and fintocks.
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With the steak whortleberries were always served, which of course helped to make it appreciated.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003
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The dinner consisted of soup, roast pork, with fresh potatoes and whortleberries, ten-years-old aquavit and Norwegian bock beer, followed by wine-jelly and “kransekake,” with — champagne.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003
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Wulaf asked rhetorically, and sneezed, his eyes as round and big as prize whortleberries.
Brightly Burning Lackey, Mercedes 2000
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The female shrugged too, and went off to get a few more whortleberries.
A different flesh Turtledove, Harry 1988
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More, it signed, getting up d walking over to pluck a handful of whortleberries off a e of branches heavy with the large, purple-blue fruit.
A different flesh Turtledove, Harry 1988
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I thought how beautiful they were, and when people talked of this and that, of whortleberries, and mulberries, and heaths, I said to myself, "I know what all these things are like -- they are black, or brown, or green."
The Man-Wolf and Other Tales Erckmann-Chatrian
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In summer, we will gather strawberries in yonder fields, or whortleberries from the adjacent shrubbery.
Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father Daniel Jackson
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Through the mist, which still hung heavy on the lake, we plunged into the fir-wood, and hurried on over its uneven carpet of moss and dwarf whortleberries.
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