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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See Rafflesia.

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Examples

  • Her last thought before sleep finally caught her was actually one of wonder-wonder at herself, for having made so clear and final a break between her past and her future.

    red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

  • The scholars are like hipsters at a BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE concert. sometimes i just want to live in the woods and go camping until God sees fit to touch my head and suck me back. wonder-wonder but the universe is full of shapes and colors! things-things-things our Past skeleton = our Future skeleton

    the-forest Diary Entry the-forest 2006

  • I have no sympathy with those who, living out their dreams, turn regretfully to another course or another aim, and wonder-wonder, if a mistake hasn't been made.

    Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

  • I have no sympathy with those who, living out their dreams, turn regretfully to another course or another aim, and wonder-wonder, if a mistake hasn't been made.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • I have no sympathy with those who, living out their dreams, turn regretfully to another course or another aim, and wonder-wonder, if a mistake hasn't been made.

    Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 3 Gilbert Parker 1897

  • I am having doubts about my abilities as a writer, as far as whether or not it is a good idea to go to a writing-castle and pay good hard earned future-money to do so, or whether i am only cut out to cut cans in a can-cutting-cannery. wonder-wonder that is the kind of doubts i have. about whether things are a good idea or not. or weather the things i churn out out my sweating soul are just sci-fi novels to be spit upon.

    the-forest Diary Entry the-forest 2006

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