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  • Hill, a low, underselling grocer, got his measly errand cart, with his name and address in great staring white letters, just in advance of the leaders, and kept dodging across the road to get the sound ground, for the whole line was werry "woolley" as you calls it.

    Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities Robert Smith Surtees 1833

  • At this moment a woolley head, which I recognized at once as that of the

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • We started again, and about one hundred yards below the pike stood a lad with a pair of leaders to clap on, for the road, as I said before, was werry woolley.

    Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities Robert Smith Surtees 1833

  • But just to ... david woolley: Negotiation does not really mean a new ...

    One Free Korea Joshua Stanton 2010

  • Your ideas about Jews returning to Israel from India, then what does this actually mean, if your ideas about the Arabs are so woolley?

    Israpundit 2009

  • And there was the story of his first Synod Meeting, "when A came all wild an 'woolley out o' the West!

    The Freebooters of the Wilderness 1903

  • I am wearing jeans, so I wont be standing next to her ill go in jeans and a woolley jumper, with ma wellies too; o)

    Army Rumour Service 2010

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