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- verb Present participle of
wimple .
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Examples
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High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
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High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
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High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
“The Windhover” : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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But my goodness, when you get the words and their meaning and start to speak the breathless drive of the poem, you can only feel a certain awe at the propulsion of the piece and the grace of the rhetoric: Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding/High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing/In his ecstasy!
“The Windhover” : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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It was a garden with trees of freshest green and ripe fruits of yellow sheen; and its birds were singing clear and keen and nils ran wimpling through the fair terrene.
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High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
Windhover 3 2005
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High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
The Windhover 2005
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High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
Archive 2005-09-01 2005
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High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
Archive 2005-11-01 2005
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A gentle wimpling of the river among stones ascended to his ear; the trees upon the other bank stood very black against the sky; farther away an owl was hooting.
Lay Morals 2005
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