wabbly
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OLD ENGLISH�A wabbly play of Galsworthy's shored up into sound entertainment by the extraordinary performance of George Arliss.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every time I climb those wabbly rattly-bangs that you call rustic stairs, I wonder that you have a friend to your name.
From Eve to the Rescue by Summers, Dudley Gloyne
An elaborate evening dress may call for a higher heel than the one worn on the street, but it will not excuse the wabbly spindle heels sold girls by many ruthless concerns.
From Appropriate Clothes for the High School Girl by Alexander, Virginia M.
Her voice went to a complete smash at times, besides bein' weak and wabbly.
From The House of Torchy by Brown, Arthur William
And if I did they were of the springy, wabbly kind that would seesaw the load from my hips to my calves.
From Forty Minutes Late 1909 by Smith, Francis Hopkinson
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