wishing well
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With its red-accented A-frame roof, footbridge and wishing well, the home echoed the dwarfs’ forest abode from the movie, but sat in the distinctly more metropolitan locale of the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2025
Asked what she sees in a magic wishing well, she replies, “Water.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025
Apparently visitors were using him as a wishing well.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2022
Another woman's trolley was filled with three Mr Potato Heads, four rabbit-shaped wicker planters and a wooden wishing well for her garden.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2019
Not that long ago, I went to the wishing well downtown.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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