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weeke

n. (obsolete spelling of week English)

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In Eline, die, van een loom en lymfatisch gestel, behoefte gevoelde aan teederen steun en zachtkoesterende warmte, en wier zenuwen, fijn als de vezelen eener bloem, zelfs in hare weeke, als met fluweel gecapitonneerde omgeving dikwijls nog door den minsten tegenstand te ruw werden beroerd en te hevig geprikkeld, ontwikkelde zich uit angst eene terughoudendheid, die haar gemoed vulde met duizenden kleine grieven van heimelijk verdriet.

Then Weekes is murdered and his house is ransacked and no papers are left in it.

And this day fifty weekes, *farre ne nerre*, *neither more nor less* Evereach of you shall bring an hundred knights, Armed for listes up at alle rights All ready to darraine* her by bataille, *contend for And this behete* I you withoute fail *promise Upon my troth, and as I am a knight, That whether of you bothe that hath might, That is to say, that whether he or thou May with his hundred, as I spake of now, Slay his contrary, or out of listes drive, Him shall I given Emily to wive, To whom that fortune gives so fair a grace.

Thomas Weekes had provided his granddaughter with no more than the bare necessities of a bedroom, trusted none of his curiosities to her.

Sixe or seven weekes those Barbarians kept him prisoner, many strange triumphes and conjurations they made of him, yet hee so demeaned himselfe amongst them, as he not onely diverted them from surprising the Fort, but procured his owne libertie, and got himself and his company such estimation amongst them, that those Salvages admired him more than their owne Quiyouckosucks.

Name Nelly Weekes, unmarried, age about twenty or more, short, well made, slight, dark hair worn long, grey eyes, considered pretty, nervous manner.

You'd better go through everybody in the place for evidence of two strangers being seen with Weekes or granddaughter or round about.

Then Weekes is murdered and his house is ransacked and no papers are left in it.

Natural inference, the crime was committed to obliterate the Weekes - Coole secret: that is, by people who knew there was one and had an interest in it.

It's incredible an educated man should think he could make an end of it by murdering Weekes and stealing his private papers.

The late Weekes had a parrot, stuffed only, nevertheless a parrot, and a model of a ship.

Frayne's never been seen with Weekes and nobody saw him on the day of the murder.

I asked 'em to send out there and, if Frayne or Coole or Nelly Weekes is found, detain 'em.

I made some inquiries and found that Weekes was an old sailor living with a granddaughter.

This morning I read in the papers with horror that Weekes had been murdered in his cottage.