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  • noun Plural form of woolfel.

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Examples

  • "It is such men as he," retorted Micheldene, "who are like rats in a wheat-rick or moths in a woolfels, a harm and a hindrance to all peaceful and honest men."

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • "It is such men as he," retorted Micheldene, "who are like rats in a wheat-rick or moths in a woolfels, a harm and a hindrance to all peaceful and honest men."

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • "It is such men as he," retorted Micheldene, "who are like rats in a wheat-rick or moths in a woolfels, a harm and a hindrance to all peaceful and honest men."

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • Here came the merchandise of all the fair countries which are watered by the Garonne and the Dordogne -- the cloths of the south, the skins of Guienne, the wines of the Medoc -- to be borne away to Hull, Exeter, Dartmouth, Bristol or Chester, in exchange for the wools and woolfels of England.

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • Here came the merchandise of all the fair countries which are watered by the Garonne and the Dordogne -- the cloths of the south, the skins of Guienne, the wines of the Medoc -- to be borne away to Hull, Exeter, Dartmouth, Bristol or Chester, in exchange for the wools and woolfels of England.

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • Here came the merchandise of all the fair countries which are watered by the Garonne and the Dordogne -- the cloths of the south, the skins of Guienne, the wines of the Medoc -- to be borne away to Hull, Exeter, Dartmouth, Bristol or Chester, in exchange for the wools and woolfels of England.

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • Hull, Exeter, Dartmouth, Bristol or Chester, in exchange for the wools and woolfels of England.

    The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • Dartmouth, Bristol or Chester, in exchange for the wools and woolfels of England.

    The White Company 1890

  • "It is such men as he," retorted Micheldene, "who are like rats in a wheat-rick or moths in a woolfels, a harm and a hindrance to all peaceful and honest men."

    The White Company 1890

  • "It was agreed by parliament," says Cotton, (p. 309), "that the subsidy of wools, woolfels, and skins, granted to the king until the time of midsummer then ensuing, should cease from the same time unto the feast of St. Peter 'ad vincula' for that thereby the king should be interrupted for claiming such grant as due."

    The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B. From Henry III. to Richard III. David Hume 1743

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