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These, to Fionn, new come from leaves and shadows and the dipple and dapple of a wood, would have seemed wonderful; and the tales they would have told of their masters, their looks, fads, severities, sillinesses, would have been wonderful also.
Irish Fairy Tales James Stephens 1916
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I wounder who the dipple was 30yrs ago you are referring to?
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The penultimate in political cowardice is probably triple or dipple infinity.
Sadly, No! 2010
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The next contest will be a double, NO, make that a triple-dipple contest.
PLANET3RRY 2008
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I went back to the standing, and at one point in the ground, where there was a windlass and chain, lowered myself down a 'cut' -- a small pit sunk perpendicularly to a lower coal-stratum, and here, almost thinking I could hear the perpetual rat-tat of notice once exchanged between the putt-boys below and the windlass-boys above, I proceeded down a dipple to another place like a standing, for in this mine there were six, or perhaps seven, veins: and there immediately I came upon the acme of the horrible drama of this
The Purple Cloud 1906
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