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She was a ghastly thing to look at, as well from the quantity as from the nature of the wiggeries which she wore.

From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Trollope, Anthony

Mrs. Van Siever in her present habiliments was not a thing so terrible to look at as she had been in her wiggeries at Mrs. Dobbs Broughton's dinner-table.

From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Trollope, Anthony

For his love of Justice was really great; and the mendacities and wiggeries, attached to such a necessary of life as Law, found no favor from him at any time.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 11 by Carlyle, Thomas

To follow wiggeries and forms with solemn attention, careless what became of the internal fact?

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 by Carlyle, Thomas