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Then Sir Launcelot was wrothy and smote Sir Bleoberis so sore upon the helm that his head bowed down backward.
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Hazelwood and Port Perry were wrothy that they had entrusted Bill with the mission and money to complete the investigation.
Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden
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Page 350 from the person she had so closely grappled but a moment before, she stood some five paces off, curiously regarding him, now satisfied of her error, and quite as much confounded as he was wrothy.
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"I must say that it is not, my lord," said Mr. Gilmore, who was waxing wrothy and becoming very black about the brows.
The Vicar of Bullhampton Anthony Trollope 1848
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Yet when the gentleman waxes wrothy, rather than inconvenience him, or perhaps anxious to get back to the mess, he coolly says, "Oh, my friend shall meet you," and then his pleasant jest, "find out the cause of quarrel from his executors!"
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 1 Charles James Lever 1839
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Yet when the gentleman waxes wrothy, rather than inconvenience him, or perhaps anxious to get back to the mess, he coolly says, "Oh, my friend shall meet you," and then his pleasant jest, "find out the cause of quarrel from his executors!"
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete Charles James Lever 1839
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Then Sir Launcelot was wrothy and smote Sir Bleoberis so sore upon the helm that his head bowed down backward.
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-- for if not, the Lord have mercy on your soul -- a more wrothy gentleman than the aforesaid, it having rarely been my evil fortune to foregather with.
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 1 Charles James Lever 1839
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-- for if not, the Lord have mercy on your soul -- a more wrothy gentleman than the aforesaid, it having rarely been my evil fortune to foregather with.
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete Charles James Lever 1839
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The urbane editor tried a folksy approach: “Take a long pull & a strong pull & a pull altogether & listen to what I have to say, & don’t get wrothy till you get through.”
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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