Example Sentences
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In and out of Westeros, we’ve aged, starting out as Aryas and ending up as wimpled Lady Olennas.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 12, 2019
He painted some with owls, and one day, on an impulse, he painted a rock with a wimpled nun.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2016
Between Nancy Reagan’s death and her funeral on Friday 11 March, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence reached out in their own wimpled way to share their pain, their anger and, occasionally, their sympathy.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 11, 2016
On Tuesday's Mother Angelica Live, scriptless and sometimes armed only with a theme--youthful piety, for example--she rambles for 30 minutes or so about whatever enters her wimpled head.
From Time Magazine Archive
The water ran doon frae the heich hope-heid, Wi' a Rin, burnie, rin; It wimpled, an' waggled, an' sang a screed O' nonsense, an' wadna blin Wi' its Rin, burnie, rin.
From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by MacDonald, George
