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  • I wope up at 8 in the morning. .still upat 12: 30 ...

    mesocyclone Diary Entry mesocyclone 1990

  • The Roughs were in a particularly happy frame of mind, though they had slept in the open, for their officers 'tent had come down, also their sergeants', and the remarks of the former, "Aw, Frisby, have you got that wope?"

    A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition P. T. Ross

  • It was evident to Doris that Pete was an authority, not without honor in his own country, and an authority not to be questioned, for Ruth gravely informed Doris that Pete could "wide" and "wope" and knew everything about "forces" and "cows."

    The Ridin' Kid from Powder River Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909

  • ‘Creep’ made ‘crope’, still current in the north of England; ‘weep’ ‘wope’; ‘yell’ ‘yoll’

    English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

  • I'd get rid of the costly delays which are the chief cause of lynchings, by elective jurors and the majority rule, by appointing one man well learned in the law to see that all the evidence was properly placed before the court, and advise the rest of the legal fraternity now making heaven and earth resound with their eloquence and weeping crocodile tears at so much per wope, that it were better to make two fat shoats flourish where one hazel-splitter pined in the hitherto, than to employ their talents and energies securing the conviction of the innocent and the aquittal of the guilty.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

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