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  • Then he dropped the butt and stepped on it with the tap toe of his way-weary shoe, the border of uniformed George, rutted and cut across the instep.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Then he dropped the butt and stepped on it with the tap toe of his way-weary shoe, the border of uniformed George, rutted and cut across the instep.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Then he dropped the butt and stepped on it with the tap toe of his way-weary shoe, the border of uniformed George, rutted and cut across the instep.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Love, the way-weary, groped to your body, our brief wage ours for the moment

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • If ye would start a quarrel, come to us to-morrow early, and let us way-weary warriors lie this night in peace.

    The Fall of the Niebelungs Margaret [Translator] Armour

  • The seeming objectless cannonade secured the unharassed home-coming of the 4000 way-weary marchers from Dundee.

    From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War G. W. Steevens

  • Then he went to a mountain, whereon a castle stood, and asked for lodging, as he had been a way-weary man.

    The Fall of the Niebelungs Margaret [Translator] Armour

  • When the way-weary ones had rested, and drew nigher to Rudeger's country, they found a man asleep on the marches, from whom Hagen of Trony took a stark weapon.

    The Fall of the Niebelungs Margaret [Translator] Armour

  • The way-weary warriors were fain to rest, and lie down on their beds, but knew not how to compass it.

    The Fall of the Niebelungs Margaret [Translator] Armour

  • This was a stirring cordial to the way-weary men limping down the savannah.

    On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922

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