warsle
verb (used with or without object)
warstle
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a variation of
warsle.
Example Sentences
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And with all this, and the voyage that lies before you, you will have time to get acquaint with one another, before the warstle of common life begins.”
From Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not by G. H. (George Henry) Edwards
They quarrelled, as you saw, on the St. Valentine's Even, and had a warstle.
From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Sir Walter Scott
Na; the puir fallow maun warstle oot o' the thicket o' deid roses as best he can—sair scrattit, nae doobt.
From Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald
"Dinna warstle yersel' to death, Aggie," he said.
From Warlock o' Glenwarlock by George MacDonald
Eh, it's deep the nicht, an' hard on us baith, but there's a puir wumman micht dee if we didna warstle through; ... that's it; ye ken fine what a'm sayin.'
From A Doctor of the Old School — Volume 4 by Ian Maclaren
