wishing well
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With its red-accented A-frame roof, footbridge and wishing well, the home echoed the dwarfs’ forest abode from the movie, but sat in the distinctly more metropolitan locale of the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2025
Asked what she sees in a magic wishing well, she replies, “Water.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 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
“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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