Here is a set of ten four letter verbs starting with "Wa". Fill these verbs in the blanks, as used in the quotes of the Classic Writers.
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FOUR LETTER WORDS - verbs STARTING WITH 'WA'
You have to just fill in only two letters.
wade; waft; wage; wail; wake;
wane; ward; ware; warp; wave.
741.
Those breezes ____ the orphan's cries,
They tremble to parental sighs,
And drink a tear for keener anguish shed,
The tear of faithful love when hope is fled
(Helen Maria Williams in her 'An Ode on the Peace')
742.
Thou little think'st and less dost know
The cause of this thy mother's moan;
Thou want'st the wit to ____ her woe,
And I myself am all alone:
Why dost thou weep? why dost thou wail?
And know'st not yet what thou dost ail.
(Burton Egbert Stevenson in his poem 'Cradle Song')
743.
The joy that custom stains not
Shall still with him remain,
The loveliness that wanes not,
The Love that ne'er can ____.
(B.E. Stevenson in his poem 'Lost Love').
744.
"What a river!" I said to my companion, thinking of all the way we had traveled from the source in the Black Forest, and how he had often been obliged to ____ and push in the upper shallows at the beginning of June. (Algernon Blackwood in his 'The Willows').
745.
"You are tired, and yon white bed, with the high mudguards on it, looks mighty good to you; but you feel that you must go on deck to ____ a fond farewell to the land you love and the friends you are leaving behind." (Irvin S. Cobb [1876] in his book 'Europe Revised').
746.
He never had a tinge of pessimism in his make-up, his beliefs never tended to ____ his nature, he accepted his fatalism gladly because he saw in it supreme truth.
[Archibald Henderson (1837) in his book 'Mark Twain'].
747.
Give over, we have laughed enough;
Oh dearest and most foolish friend,
Why do you ____ a war with love
To lose your battle in the end?
[Sara Teasdale (1884) in her 'Rivers to the Sea - Spring'].
748.
A freshe chaplet on his haires bright;
And cloakes white of fine velvet they ____.
[Geoffrey Chaucer (1343) in The Canterbury Tales 'Flower and the Leaf']
749.
Thy heart - thy heart! - I ____ and sigh,
And sleep to dream till day Of truth
that gold can never buy
[Edgar Allen Poe (1809) in his 'Poems']
750.
I have actually heard this barbarous aversion to innovation carried still further, and a sensible woman stigmatized as an unnatural mother, who has thus been wisely solicitous to preserve the health of her children, when in the midst of her care she has lost one by some of the casualties of infancy which no prudence can ____ off. [Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin-1759) in her 'Vindication of the Rights of Women'].
