The brown wincey and the coarse apron seemed to her the neophyte's robe, betokening. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference
"I have six bolls of meal and seven yards of wincey going up the glen in the Salachary cart.". From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
Her gypsy blood began to stir in her: the charm of her old vagabond habits asserted itself under the wincey frock and clean apron. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference
When the violent ring of the bell that announced their coming echoed through the house, Mrs. Potts had only to roll down the sleeves of her best wincey and button them at her wrists. From Wordnik.com. [Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense] Reference
Off came the lovely new costume of navy blue with a big white sailor collar, on went her horrid brown wincey which buttoned high around her little neck and always felt as if it were choking her. From Wordnik.com. [The Thorn Birds]
A merchant in Hopeton last winter donated three hundred yards of wincey to the asylum. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of Green Gables] Reference
This morning when I left the asylum I felt so ashamed because I had to wear this horrid old wincey dress. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of Green Gables] Reference
She was barefooted, as Eppie always was except on Sundays, and wore a coarse, gray wincey dress and a big apron. From Wordnik.com. ['Lizbeth of the Dale] Reference
They loved all the characters and the quips - "Incey wincey spider's going to web you in the face" became quite a catchphrase. From Wordnik.com. [Eurogamer] Reference
I can see myself, in that dreadful old wincey dress and faded sailor hat, exploring decks and cabins with enraptured curiosity. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of the Island] Reference
The South Florida Sun Sentinel's database of emergency room failures will induce instantaneous wincey click-trances in all but the hardest-hearted. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
She certainly was an odd-looking little creature in the short tight wincey dress she had worn from the asylum, below which her thin legs seemed ungracefully long. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of Green Gables] Reference
Gables, and memory recalled a vivid picture of the odd, frightened child in her preposterous yellowish-brown wincey dress, the heartbreak looking out of her tearful eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of Green Gables] Reference
Mevrouw Brounckers, in high-kilted wincey, a man's hat of coarse straw perched on her weather-beaten, sandy-grey head, came stumping down the waggon-ladder, calling for her potatoes. From Wordnik.com. [The Dop Doctor] Reference
She was dressed in some dull-coloured wincey, and looked cold and patient and lonely, and as she saw the big man staring at her she struggled in alarm to her feet, and could scarce stand on them. From Wordnik.com. [Tommy and Grizel] Reference
It's about as grand as it sounds, and one-time creators of fan fiction will probably relish the opportunity to reinterpret FotC's "Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros" with their own wincey music videos. From Wordnik.com. [Adrants] Reference
It was decidedly on the short side and as "skimpy" as the notable wincey Anne had worn upon the occasion of her debut at Green Gables; but at least it would not be materially injured by down and feathers. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of Avonlea] Reference
No one can look sensible with a nose that turns straight up, and I will have bright colors to wear -- I was brought up on wincey, color of mud, and all these London-smoke, battleship-gray colors make me sick. From Wordnik.com. [The Next of Kin Those who Wait and Wonder] Reference
Emergency room accidents: a cavalcade of winceworthy moments The South Florida Sun Sentinel's database of emergency room failures will induce instantaneous wincey click-trances in all but the hardest-hearted. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
Matthew was not looking at her and would not have seen what she was really like if he had been, but an ordinary observer would have seen this: A child of about eleven, garbed in a very short, very tight, very ugly dress of yellowish-gray wincey. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of Green Gables] Reference
Dr. Greg Wells, the Superbodies host who moves his hands around in every segment like he's casting magic spells, tends to wrap each one up with a punchy quote, although the luge segment was a bit wincey: "That's how you survive Whistler, the most dangerous toboggan ride in the world.". From Wordnik.com. [Winnipeg Sun] Reference
My understanding -- I could be wrong about this -- but I believe Henry Lee even had something to do with the testing in the sense he looked at other pairs of underpants and said, you know, in the manufacturing process this was such a teensy, wincey, itsy fragmented little tiny bit of DNA that he thought it was a whole lot of nothing probably from the manufacturing because he found other male DNA in underpants that had just come fresh out of a package. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 9, 2008] Reference
I should think you'd be grateful to get most anything after those skimpy wincey things you've been wearing. ". From Wordnik.com. [Anne of Green Gables] Reference
A brown wincey dress surmounted all. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference
And they are admirably wincey. From Wordnik.com. [Adrants] Reference
These aren’t incey-wincey house spiders, they’re stuff-of-nightmares tarantulas. From Wordnik.com. [The World’s Wildest Delicacies | Impact Lab] Reference
Who would have thought that “a child of about 11, garbed in a very short, very tight, very ugly dress of yellowish-gray wincey”, of freckled face, green-gray eyes and of course, “two braids of very thick, decidedly red hair” would inspire several sequels, a few movies, an iconic CBC miniseries (with sequels of their own), a musical or two and an entire cottage industry devoted to tourists (especially from Japan) descending upon the once unsuspecting province of Prince Edward Island?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
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