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Examples
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I gwine in the dressin'-room, baby, an 'wrop' im up ag'in.
Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886
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He appears to be in a house strange to him, which contains also an unpleasant old woman and a queer little boy whose behaviour is wrop in mystery.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 25, 1917 Various
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"I thought you would, sir," he answered, with a broad smile; "but I should advise you, sir, if I might be so bold, to _wrop_ up well, as the job may be a longish one, and them graveyards is very damp."
A Queen's Error Henry Curties
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One night I couldn 'lay down it was so cold, so I sit up and wrop in a blanket.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration
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DONALD MACLEAN declared that, on the contrary, their whole fiscal policy was "wrop in mystery."
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 19, 1919 Various
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Dat's what I used to wear for a wrop on church days 'fore I ever had a coat.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration
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Then they wrop you well up in 'ot towels, and leave yer five minutes to bake,
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 24, 1892 Various
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Keep on them glasses, and wrop a shawl round you, and come with me.
Sight to the Blind Lucy Furman
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If I was a well-educated man "-- here he took off his cap and rubbed the top of his head with the peak --" I could find words to wrop it up somehow.
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Julie would rake out dem coals and kivver 'em wid ashes, and den she would wrop a pone of cornbread dough in collard or cabbage leaves and put it on dem ashes and rake more ashes over it.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration
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