wimpling
- present participle of wimple.
Example Sentences
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Of course, "somewhere" meant the Presidential Hunting Lodge, on secluded, wimpling Lake Werbellin, a scant 40 miles from Berlin, yet remote as a hut in the Black Forest.
From Time Magazine Archive
A 21-gun salute boomed from the British war boat Suffolk anchored off Nanking on the mighty wimpling Yantze.
From Time Magazine Archive
As they cast anchor off the Royal Yacht Club, in the wimpling Frognerkilen, they had Oslo on their starboard and suburban Bygdo, with its Castle Oskarshal, on their port.
From Time Magazine Archive
Our way thither—the same once so familiar to Smith and his cruel steed—lies along the green valley through which the wimpling Foss ripples and sings on its way to the Ouse.
From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)
As I have said the lad was a Scot, there is little need to add that Grayling House and the beautiful river that went wimpling by it were on the northern side of the Tweed.
From Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures by Stables, Gordon
