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  • So the mothers, sisters, and intimate friends of those who had patiently borne the blows, and being "woolled," vaunted the example of their heroes, and asked why Dr. Morgan had not acted as they had done, and waited for an apology?

    A Confederate girl's diary, 1913

  • "woolled" him until his grizzled hair stood straight on end.

    The Thunder Bird B. M. Bower 1905

  • "woolled," vaunted the example of their heroes, and asked why Dr. Morgan had not acted as _they_ had done, and waited for an apology?

    A Confederate Girl's Diary Sarah Morgan Dawson 1875

  • This was the boy so "cotton-woolled" by his parents that he grew up believing he could do no wrong.

    Christina Patterson: Interview with Rankin: "I Feel Terrible Every Day" 2009

  • Each picks the worst sheep, i.e. that with the least wool upon it, that happens to be at hand at the time, trying to put the best-woolled sheep, which are consequently the hardest to shear, upon someone else; and so the heaviest-woolled and largest sheep get shorn the last.

    A First Year in Canterbury Settlement 2004

  • It has been Mr. MacArthur's invariable practice to keep the Spanish Breed apart from all others, and as fast as Spanish Rams have been reared they have been put among the coarse-woolled Ewes.

    A Source Book of Australian History Gwendolen H. [Compiler] Swinburne

  • England, I have directed One hundred of the finest woolled Ewes from

    A Source Book of Australian History Gwendolen H. [Compiler] Swinburne

  • On these vast and grassy fields feed great herds of beasts, especially flocks of fine-woolled sheep.

    The Esperanto Teacher A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians Helen Fryer

  • They showed great shrewdness in selecting the small, the light-woolled, the easy-to-be-shorn.

    Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

  • A first-rate man will have seventy, and, if called upon to show what he is made of, will shear a heavy-woolled wether in six minutes.

    Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

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