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  • Everything was interesting to Wolf, and he made no apologies for the general wiltedness and disorder of the neighbourhood.

    The Beloved Woman Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • Now eleven had boomed from the town-hall clock, and a general restlessness and wiltedness began to affect the waiting crowds.

    The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • You have to build little collars of pebble-stone all around them to keep marauding beetles from eating up their wiltedness.

    Fairy Prince and Other Stories Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915

  • They also go to the Country Club on Saturday nights, leave their motors standing in the drive, eat a lukewarm supper that tastes like papier-mâché, and dance themselves to wiltedness.

    American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913

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