Crossword clues for whiles
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Whiles \Whiles\, adv. [See While, n., and -wards.]
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Meanwhile; meantime. [R.]
The good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour.
--Sir. W. Scott. -
sometimes; at times. [Scot.]
--Sir W. Scott.The whiles. See under While, n.
Whiles \Whiles\, conj.
During the time that; while. [Archaic]
--Chaucer. Fuller.
Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in
the way with him.
--Matt. v. 25.
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Usage examples of "whiles".
For all that, she had left it unlocked in her anger, the whiles she went out to the tower's brim to summon her spirits--so I came in, and burned her books, and threw her alembics and crucibles upon the fire.
Yet that night, whiles he slept, she cast a spell of deepened slumber over all the palace and stole back in, to pluck the keys to the city from her father's neck, and she opened the gates to let in the sea.
Do you let him ride the high air, whiles you do accompany us beneath the sea.
He struck me with them, battered me, would have knocked me out of the sky--had not this berserker pounced upon him with a scream of fury, struck at him again and again, enduring his flailing attack and his flame whiles the dragon folk beset the gargoyle and tore him apart.
And then whiles I would make believe I had a set of pipes and I was playing.
The rock was proveesioned free the shore with vivers, the thing was ill-guided, and there were whiles when they but to fish and shoot solans for their diet.
A' the time we lay there it lowped and flang and capered and span like a teetotum, and whiles we could hear it skelloch as it span.