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  • Mrs. Sorrow, 48, might best be described as windies' royalty, one of perhaps 100 people in the country who meet a few times a year to indulge in all things G.W.T.W. And this year, the book's 75th anniversary, will be as indulgent as it gets.

    NYT > Global Home By KIM SEVERSON 2011

  • Hai gma – prolly not getz warmur – haz teh windies frum teh souf tarctica.

    O Hai …. ur software - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • But in teh nites -sumtimes – in likkel breevins of teh middels of windies and rainies and leaves talkin 2 treesfrens, i haers her n sum her noo rainbowbridgekitteh frens playin in teh happee huntin grounz an I thinx mebbee dats why Calvin he cant alaram clok u nao cos he b tird from chasin happee huntin grounz imajineree miceses.

    oh hai… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • I thought he was telling windies until years later in a school textbook I read about earthquakes causing the Mississippi to run backwards.

    Firedoglake » Greta Hamsher Murphy, 1924-2006 2006

  • Bob Dollar's principal muse is his landlady (keeper of a pet tarantula named Tonya), a faded panhandle Scheherazade given to what her fellow Woolybucketers refer to as "windies."

    Proulx-Rhymes with 'True'-Roams the Texas Panhandle 2002

  • "Not if the windies ain't open," Pearl declared stoutly.

    Sowing Seeds in Danny Nellie L. McClung 1912

  • "Once upon a time not very long ago, there lived a lovely pink lady in a big house painted red, with windies in ivery side of it, and a bell on the front dure, and a velvet carpet on the stair and --"

    Sowing Seeds in Danny Nellie L. McClung 1912

  • Mrs. Francis told me never to sleep in a room with the windies all down, and I as good as promised I would n't.

    Sowing Seeds in Danny 1908

  • "Not if the windies ain't open," Pearl declared stoutly.

    Sowing Seeds in Danny 1908

  • "Once upon a time not very long ago, there lived a lovely pink lady in a big house painted red, with windies in ivery side of it, and a bell on the front dure, and a velvet carpet on the stair and —"

    Sowing Seeds in Danny 1908

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