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  • That made me think of Phoebe and the lunatic, and I said, "If I were walking in Phoebe's moccasins, I would have to believe in a lunatic and an axe-wielding Mrs. Cadaver to explain my mother's disappearance."  (source)
    wielding = holding
  • I will not take the Ring to wield it.  (source)
    wield = use its power
  • Rosa touched one and picked it up, but she did not wield it.†  (source)
    wield = to hold and use, or to have and be able to use
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  • Life is not something you wield, you know?†  (source)
    wield = to hold and use, or to have and be able to use
  • One of the stun-gun wielding dropcops climbed through the hole first.†  (source)
    wielding = holding and using, or having with the ability to use
  • The punishment used for small children was a regulated system of smacks with the discipline wand: a thin, flexible weapon that stung painfully when it was wielded.†  (source)
    wielded = held and used, or had with the ability to use
  • He was still more agitated when the ballots were counted and Gunch said, "It's a pleasure to announce that Georgie Babbitt will be the next assistant gavel-wielder.†  (source)
    wielder = someone who holds and uses something, or has something and is able to use it
  • Carl "Jimmy-Ricks" Prashkin, a San Francisco investor, reputed to be the heir apparent of the power Gienelli now wields.†  (source)
    wields = holds and uses, or has and is able to use
  • They lumbered and clanged, and their brake tanks panted in the slushy brown of a winter afternoon or the bare stone brown of a summer's, salted with ash, smoke, and prairie dust, with long stops at the clinics to let off clumpers, cripples, hunchbacks, brace-legs, crutch-wielders, tooth and eye sufferers, and all the rest.†  (source)
  • When King Arthur beheld that piteous sight he had great compassion on them, so that his heart bled for sorrow, and hailed him, saying in this wise: He that all the world wieldeth give thee short life and shameful death; and the devil have thy soul; why hast thou murdered these young innocent children, and murdered this duchess?†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She wieldeth" in older English, today we say "She wields."
  • And as for thee, helmsman, thus I charge thee, and ponder it in thine heart seeing that thou wieldest the helm of the hollow ship.†  (source)
    wieldest = hold and use, or have and are able to use
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou wieldest" in older English, today we say "You wield."
  • He longed for it, he thirsted for it; he wished to wield respect, not only like a hammer but like a sceptre.†  (source)
    wield = to hold and use, or to have and be able to use
  • The naked Toucan had startled me more than any ax-wielding disgruntled ex-employee.†  (source)
    wielding = holding and using, or having with the ability to use
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