That is how the whiffet pass on information from one generation to the next. From Wordnik.com. [Tides from the New Worlds: Anakoinosis « A Working Title] Reference
"I never felt sorry for the little whiffet before," said the fat jailer, when he came out. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference
Read it to find out how the master and NN-721 begin to change the whiffet people into something others might recognize as human. From Wordnik.com. [Tides from the New Worlds: Anakoinosis « A Working Title] Reference
In exchange for human technology, the whiffet people basically hand over their offspring as indentured servants, or realistically, as slaves. From Wordnik.com. [Tides from the New Worlds: Anakoinosis « A Working Title] Reference
The master sees something very wrong with this relationship, and does anything and everything possible to try and get his whiffet to see the realities and problems inherent in a society based on slavery. From Wordnik.com. [Tides from the New Worlds: Anakoinosis « A Working Title] Reference
The king-bird will worry the hawk as a whiffet dog will worry a bear. From Wordnik.com. [Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers] Reference
"Don't come to me with your troubles, you nasty little whiffet," she cried. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Puddler]
He was a little whiffet of a man – "looked like a figure on a New Year's cake," Bobby Hargrew said. From Wordnik.com. [The Girls of Central High on the Stage: or, The Play That Took the Prize] Reference
How it rebukes by its tough and equable serenity all weathers, this gusty-temper'd little whiffet, man, that runs indoors at a mite of rain or snow. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference
How it rebukes by its tough and equable serenity all weathers, this gusty-temperd little whiffet, man, that runs indoors at a mite of rain or snow. From Wordnik.com. [The Lesson of a Tree. Specimen Days] Reference
By-and-bye, when school was in and the dominie dozed, I would lower that timid little whiffet of a Puritan maid out through the window to the turnstile. From Wordnik.com. [Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade] Reference
First I miss seein 'this fire-eater bate the face off the big ilephant, Corrigan, an' yisterday I was figgerin 'on goin' to town -- but didn't; an 'I miss seein' that little whiffet of a Braman flyin 'through the windy. From Wordnik.com. ['Firebrand' Trevison] Reference
“Does that little whiffet of a roan mare think she's going to show me her heels?. From Wordnik.com. [The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him]
I've never been sick a day in my life and I've had little sympathy for you and your line, and then to be knocked down so quick by a little whiffet like Smith and roll over like a log at the first blow! ". From Wordnik.com. [Winning the Wilderness] Reference
And with the insight I now have, I believe the glandered horse and the little whiffet that yelped and disturbed the General's ideas of a proper Review, will prove to be at the bottom of the whole matter. ". From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
"Does that little whiffet of a roan mare think she's going to show me her heels?. From Wordnik.com. [The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him] Reference
"You little whiffet!" he would say. From Wordnik.com. [A Poor Wise Man] Reference
This whiffet of a. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
"You little whiffet!" she said. From Wordnik.com. [Laddie; a true blue story] Reference
"You little tow-haired whiffet!". From Wordnik.com. [Laddie; a true blue story] Reference
We'll see what we see, my fine young whiffet. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Innocents A Story for Lovers] Reference
Colonel, you recollect, was compelled to correct our Division-General in some of his commands, to prevent confusion; and the General, although clearly in the wrong, submitted with a bad grace; and then at the last review you all remember how a whiffet chanced to yelp at the heels of the Staff horses, and how the General -- it was after three, you recollect, G-- d d---- d the puppy and its ancestry, particularly its mother, until his Staff tittered behind him, and the Regiments of his command, officers and men, particularly ours, fairly roared. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
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