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I doubt we'll get any rain out of it, but I like to listen to Rip Van Winkle and the boys playing ninepins all the same.
Members of the Chippenham Winkle Club known as winklers donned their Christmas outfits for the giveaway along the Kennet and Avon canal.
Rip Van Winkle has nothing on the U.S. electric-transmission industry, which has slept for nearly two decades while market restructuring changed the world around it.
The cult of Pappy van Winkle By Elton Felton There are lines around the block and long waiting lists.
Though, at their best, the Van Winkle whiskies are excellent, Pappy is not uniquely great.
He makes Rip Van Winkle look like a catnapper and if they ever did a remake of The Big Sleep then McCoy would make a perfect Humphrey Bogart.
Coral eased Rip Van Winkle out to 7-4 from 6-4 and make Zenyatta 3-1 from 7-2 following Tuesday afternoon's draw ceremony.
The Royal Crescent is the venue for a chase between two characters, Dowler and Winkle.
Here the leather-legginged boy laughed very heartily, and then tried to look as if it was somebody else, whereat Mr. Winkle frowned majestically.
Mr. Winkle... took his hand with a feeling of regard, akin to veneration.
His relentless search to winkle out the new and a youthful ability to keep his ear to the ground is to be taken seriously.
One of my favourite snapshots of my son shows him running around, winkle to the wind, naked as the day he was born.
And after all, there is something to be said for taking time to winkle out the trail's secrets.
Where Bintley probes psychology lightly, McCabe seems to burrow, and winkle out hidden layers.
If England can just winkle one more out tonight they will be firmly in charge.
He realises the paramount importance of getting all the facts into the public domain before the press winkle them out.
The viewer is enticed by the deliberate placement of phrases, formulas, and other elements to try to winkle out the connections.
When you know how many there are in the lake, you would think that an experienced angler would be able to winkle out a few trout, but we had found it tough.
After all, he didn't want his winkle to get so big it became unruly and unnatural.
Look out too for dunlins, knots, redshanks, bar-tailed godwits, curlews and oystercatchers as they use their long thin beaks to winkle out worms and molluscs.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He had gone back to his former state of fuzziness, and looked more like Rip van Winkle than ever.
He stood on the brink much as Winkle, of Pickwickian memory, trembled in Weller's grasp.
Neither Winkle nor Snodgrass started this hypothesis, but Tupman.
Winkle were unfortunate foundlings, deprived of their natural rights, cast loose upon the world, and billeted nowhere.
Melton couldn't yet say if the heist was connected with the unsolved 2013 theft of Pappy Van Winkle bourbon and rye whiskey.
If Rip Van Winkle were an economist, he would marvel at the changes in the Custer County economy since he went to sleep for 20 years.
Winkle bowed, and endeavoured to feign an easiness of manner, which, in his then state of confusion, gave him rather the air of a disconcerted pickpocket.
Winkle with a heavy clothes-brush, indulging, during the operation, in that hissing sound which hostlers are wont to produce when engaged in rubbing down a horse.
In the Great Northern Catskills, families can discover the enduring legacies of Rip Van Winkle and Thomas Cole-founder of the Hudson River School of Art.
For years, like Mr. winkle, we've declared we were just about to begin, and then never began at all.
When Phunky came to winkle, the inexperience of the tyro was shown at once.
Chesterton has now another dog, but he will never get another winkle.
At any other time, Mr. winkle would have replied in the affirmative.
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