Citations:wimple

English citations of wimple

• 1913, S. R. Crockett, Patsy‎^[1]:

  The earl's dark eyes passed with carelessness over hundreds of farm-towns, snug sheltered villages, mills with little threads of white wimpling away from the unheard constant clack of the wheel, barns, byres and stackyards--all were his, but of these he took no heed.

• 1907, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes‎^[2]:

  Above and below, you may hear it wimpling over the stones, an amiable stripling of a river, which it seems absurd to call the Loire.

• 1904, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Church-Yard‎^[3]:

  I had heard her beauty talked about in my childhood; the rich, clear tints, the delicate outlines, those tender and pleasant dimples, like the wimpling of a well; an image so pure, and merry, and melancholy withal, had grown before me, and in twilight shadows visited the now lonely haunts of her brief hours; even the old church, in my evening rambles along the uplands of the park, had in my eyes so saddened a grace in the knowledge that those slender bones lay beneath its shadows, and all about her was so linked in my mind with truth, and melancholy, and altogether so sacred, that I could not trifle with the story, and felt, even when I imagined it, a pang, and a reproach, as if I had mocked the sadness of little Lily's fate; so, after some ponderings and trouble of mind I gave it up, and quite renounced the thought.

• 1891, Margaret Oliphant, Royal Edinburgh‎^[4]:

  The wimpling burn is never called Helicon nor the heathery braes Parnassus, and nothing can be more genuine, more natural, and familiar than the simple scenery of Habbie's Howe--in which the eager critics identified every scene, and the sensible poet enhanced his art by a perfect truth to nature.

• 1884, Alexander Leighton, Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17‎^[5]:

  Thae are things that are forgotten before ye hae been married a twalmonth; but the feelings o' the heart, and the sentiments o' the soul, aye rin pure, Nicholas, and grow stronger and stronger, just like a bit burn oozing frae a hill, and wimpling down its side, waxing larger and larger, and gathering strength on strength as it runs, until it meets the sea, like a great river; and even so it is wi' the affections o' the heart between man and wife, where they really love and understand each other; for they begin wi' the bit spring o' courtship, following the same course, gathering strength, and flowing side by side, until they fall into the ocean o' eternity, as a united river that cannot be divided!

• 1807, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline‎^[6]:

  Now through rushing chutes, among green islands, where plumelike 755 Cotton-trees nodded their shadowy crests, they swept with the current, Then emerged into broad lagoons, where silvery sand-bars Lay in the stream, and along the wimpling waves of their margin, Shining with snow-white plumes, large flocks of pelicans waded.