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'Stop, you willain, till I ontie myself,' says I. "'Ontie me, you wixen!' says he, 'who cares whether you are ontied or not?' and he histed the winder, -- a two-story winder it was, -- and out he went!"
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various
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Does yer think Red Joe 's gone and met a schemin 'wixen?
Wappin' Wharf A Frightful Comedy of Pirates Julia McCune Flory 1906
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'Vy don't you? if MY' usband had treated her with a drain last night, unbeknown to me, I'd tear her precious eyes out -- a wixen! '
Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Charles Dickens 1841
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'There's been a lady at our place to-day, Miss Dorrit,' Plornish growled, 'and another one along with her as is a old wixen if ever I met with such.
Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 1841
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-- and cryin 'with all my might,' You willain! 'and he a-cryin' back, 'You wixen!' and the moon a-shinin 'like a blaze, and the meetin' folks goin 'by, and my night-gownd a-floppin', and both of us plain wisible!
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various
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‘Vy don’t you? if MY ’usband had treated her with a drain last night, unbeknown to me, I’d tear her precious eyes out — a wixen!’
Sketches by Boz 2007
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Dorrit,’ Plornish growled, ‘and another one along with her as is a old wixen if ever I met with such.
Little Dorrit 2007
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Maam,’ says I, quite riled by this crewel and unfealing hold wixen.
The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters 2006
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Maam,’ says I, quite riled by this crewel and unfealing hold wixen.
Burlesques 2006
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Plural of wix.
December 19, 2017