"Wimple" Quotes from Famous Books
... ripples wimple on the rills, Like sparkling little lasses; The sunlight runs along the hills, And laughs among ... — The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar • Paul Laurence Dunbar
... room, by the promotion of the Attorney to the seals, for his second son(194) to be solicitor, as I believe I once mentioned to you, is revived; though he told Mr. Pelham, that if ever he retired, it should be to Wimple.(195) In the mean time, the Master of the Horse, the Groom of the Stole, the Presidentship, (vacant by the nomination of Dorset to Ireland in the room of Lord Harrington, who is certainly to be given up to his master's dislike,) and the Blues, are still vacant. Indeed, ... — The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole |