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There’s a wedding, a feckless young painter and his even younger bride, our dotty narrator, who brings her pet newt Great Warty in her pocket and lets him have a swim in the water jug.
From The Guardian • Apr. 5, 2020
Warty or Frothy.—A condition of the head in which the surface is covered with small prominences preparatory to running up to seed.
From The Cauliflower by Crozier, A. A. (Arthur Alger)
Warty excrescences on old trees and twisted roots furnished the inlayer with small but beautifully veined and very hard pieces, beautiful in veneer work when polished.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Rogers, Julia Ellen
Before that I had a good notion to write a brief epic on the "Warty Toad," and send it to The Century for publication, but now it is quite doubtful.
From Remarks by Nye, Bill
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