Do we say while or wile

while 83314 occurrences

After a while I went back to my room, and I took out my key and hid it.

He thought it was trashnot worth his while!

"Stay a while, can't you, David?" invited Polly.

"The Lord is my Shepherd," "Come unto Me," "I will lift up mine eyes," "The Lord bless thee and keep thee,"these and others Doodles sang, while not a sound came from the room beyond.

The ark moves on to Ararat, And rests upon its height; While Noah and his family, Are fill'd with great delight.

And while the world was perishing, 'Tis pleasing to observe, The loving-kindness of the Lord, Who did the good preserve.

It was while fully absorbed in thoughts and purposes like these, that, in the autumn of 1856, I first saw Marie Zakrzewska.

I answered; while she retreated to her bed, all the rest standing in the attitudes into which passion had thrown them.

I had felt, from the first, that her life might do what my words never could: namely, inspire women with faith to try their own experiments; give them a dignity, which should refuse to look forward to marriage as an end, while it would lead them to accept it gladly as a providential help.

With them I was merry, frank, and self-possessed; while with the girls I was quiet, shy, and awkward.

This involved us in great pecuniary difficulties; for our family was large, and my father's income too small to supply the most necessary wants; while to obtain other occupation for the time was out of the question In this emergency, my mother determined to petition the city government for admission to the school of midwives established in Berlin, in order in this manner to aid in the support of the family.

Though educated apart from the male students while studying the theory of midwifery, they attend the accouchement-ward together, and receive clinical or practical instruction in the same class, from the same professor.

During the second winter, his lecturing in the class was only nominal; often nothing more than naming the heads of the subjects, while I had to give the real instruction.

Dr. Müller, who never had given this kind of instruction before, and who was a special friend of mine, immediately surrendered the whole into my hands; while Dr. Ebert, whose time was almost wholly absorbed in the department of the diseases of children, appointed me as his assistant.

now we know the reason why Miss Marie ate her breakfast so calmly, while her sister danced for joy.

They determine to leave their home, either because false pride preprevents their seeking work where they have been brought up as ladies, or because this work is so scarce that they cannot earn by it even a life of semi-starvation; while they are encouraged to believe that in this country they will readily find proper employment.

Some I took into my house; for others I found work, and made myself a sort of guardian; while to others I gave friendship to keep them morally alive.

How often have I been the confidante of girls, who the day before, arrayed in satin, had given their hands to rich men before the altar, while their hearts were breaking with suppressed agony!

I went, therefore, to Mr. G., and proposed to establish a business with him, in which he should manufacture these coiffures, while I would sell them by wholesale to the merchants with whom I was acquainted.

Never again while the present rule of order is in force, can similar instructions be given to a committeenever again shall even an inquiry be made into the expediency of abolishing slavery and the slave-trade in the District.

And producing a magnifying glass, the detective made a long and careful examination of the holes while Papa Tignol watched him with unqualified disgust.

" The old man leaned forward eagerly: "Why do you think the woman helped him?" "Somebody helped him or the chips would still be there, somebody held back those hangings while he worked the auger, and somebody carried the auger away.

" "And he probably looked into Number Six through the first hole while Martinez was boring the second.

Fifteen minutes later they stopped at his hotel and he went up to his room, two steps, at a time, while she waited in the cab.

of time, is from the first participle of an old verb dure, to last, formerly in use; as, "While the world may dure.

wile 149 occurrences

Artifice, ruse, trick, dodge, manoeuver, wile, stratagem, subterfuge, finesse.

We might wile away an hour there very pleasantly if you feel so disposed.

" Though the city holds thee captive By trick, and wile, and lure, Out yonder lies the loveliness Of things that shall endure.

On the whole, the hand fishing is uninteresting, but it serves to wile away an odd hour when hunting and shooting are hardly practicable.

Some artful wile of counterfeited love!

Then, of all times, the hosts of Satan are marshaled that by every possible insidious wile and open warfare they may overcome.

SEE Wile, Frederic William, ed.

WILE, ADA SHAKMAN.

SEE Wile, Frederic William, ed.

WILE, FREDERIC WILLIAM, ed.

Ada Shakman Wile (W) & Herbert Hoover (A); 23Mar55; R146751. WILHELM, PRINCE OF SWEDEN.

SEE Wile, Oscar J. SCHLESINGER, ARTHUR M. Syllabus of the Political and social growth of the United States, 1492-1852.

SEE Dumont-Wilden, Louis. WILE, OSCAR J. A series of articles devoted to imported wines and liqueurs from notes taken at lectures given by the Schenley Wine & Spirit Import Corp. to its selling force.

WILE, IRA S. The man takes a wife; a study of a man's problems in and through marriage.

© 8Oct37; A110304. Sadie R. Wile (W); 17Jun65; R363411. WILE, SADIE R. The man takes a wife.

© 8Oct37; A110304. Sadie R. Wile (W); 17Jun65; R363411. WILE, SADIE R. The man takes a wife.

SEE Wile, Ira S. WILEY, DOROTHY.

Lucy Wilder (A); 9Jan67; R401424. WILE, IRA S. The challenge of adolescence.

WILE, ADA SHAKMAN.

SEE Wile, Frederic William, ed.

WILE, FREDERIC WILLIAM, ed.

Ada Shakman Wile (W) & Herbert Hoover (A); 23Mar55; R146751. WILHELM, PRINCE OF SWEDEN.

And shall I press that fair and taintless brow With my fond lips, and tempt, with many a wile Of playful love, those features to beguile A parent with their mirth?

And, O thou without a foe, as all unchaste wile in the family of a man of pure descent cannot be brought back to the path of virtue, so I failed to bring Dhritarashtra back.

Of food he had a simple store, And when the churls the chase gave o'er, And evening sunk upon the vale, With rubbing head and upright tail, Pacing before him to and fro, Puss lured him on the way to go Coaxing him on, with tender wile, O'er heath and down for many a mile.

Do we say   while   or  wile