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  • noun Plural form of wone.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wone.

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Examples

  • Allah hath made me speak to you, to the intent that your faith be fortified, and that your belief embolden you and that you may go forth of the country of the Infidels and repair to the Moslem host; for with them wones the Sword of the Com passionate One, of our Age the Champion, King Sharrkan, by whom He shall conquer

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Bear greeting of lover who ever in love-longing wones!

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Scots is the medium of most of the translations as well as of the original poems in the collection: a passage from Dante's La Vita Nuova is rendered in a quasi-mediaeval register:Ae time that I our flownrie life appraisit and saw hou brief and bruckil its duratioun, i ma hert, whaurin he wones, Luve sabbit sairlie, and wi Luve's sabban then my saul was frazit, sae that I sychit and spak in conturbatioun:

    languagehat.com: BRAW AND WITTY. 2004

  • Well Hen I have no [unclear: newz] to communicate & know of nothing that would interest there My motto is to write short scribbles & receive long wones from my correspondence [illeg.]

    Augusta County: Joseph Alfred Wilson to H. H. Hamilton, February 20, 1863 Joseph Alfred Wilson 1863

  • Then read my writ, dear friends, and show some ruth * To wight who wones black-faced, distraught, sans stay!

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • 'Know that Allah hath made me speak to you, to the intent that your faith be fortified, and that your belief embolden you and that you may go forth of the country of the Infidels and repair to the Moslem host; for with them wones the Sword of the Com passionate One, of our Age the Champion, King Sharrkan, by whom

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Current Key Pieces with "*" by the wones added this year: Ryan Zimmerman, Adam Dunn*, Nyjer Morgan*, Josh Willingham*, Jesus Flores, John Lannan, Drew Storen*, Steven Starsburg* (?).

    Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post 2009

  • Said the old man, "At thy service, O my lord," and Ishak continued, "In the corridor is a chamber and therein wones a damsel pale and wan.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • "O Zephyr of Morn, an thou pass where the dear ones dwell, * Bear greeting of lover who ever in love-longing wones!

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Unhealed the lover wones of love desire, * By kiss and clip, his only cure's to futter! '"

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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