wishing well
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She also recorded a rendition of Snow’s song “I’m Wishing” that played from the wishing well at Disneyland’s Snow White Grotto.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2025
As for the bucket list, it includes such things as stealing the coins from a wishing well, buying a new Cadillac, professing love to your neighbor and eating a steak-and-cheese in a yoga class.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2020
Another woman's trolley was filled with three Mr Potato Heads, four rabbit-shaped wicker planters and a wooden wishing well for her garden.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2019
Kuri’s is a grunge wishing well, radiating boom-and-bust.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2017
“That wishing well is the first thing I noticed when we came to town. Might be nice to remind people of it.”
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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