Quotes: F

Fabian

The Fabian Society proposes then to conquer by delay; to carry its programme, not by a hasty rush, but through the slower, but, as it thinks, surer methods of patient discussion, exposition, and political action.

Fable

Jotham's fable of the trees is the oldest extant.

The moral is the first business of the poet; this being formed, he contrives such a design or fable as may be most suitable to the moral.

We grew The fable of the city where we dwelt.

It would look like a fable to report that this gentleman gives away a great fortune by secret methods.

Vain now the tales which fabling poets tell.

He fables, yet speaks truth.

The hell thou fablest.

Fabric

Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation.

Tithe was received by the bishop, . . . for the fabric of the churches for the poor.

The whole vast fabric of society.

Fabricate

Our books were not fabricated with an accomodation to prevailing usages.

Fabricator

The fabricator of the works of Ossian.

Fabulous

The fabulous birth of Minerva.

Face

A mist . . . watered the whole face of the ground.

Lake Leman wooes me with its crystal face.

To set a face upon their own malignant design.

This would produce a new face of things in Europe.

We wear a face of joy, because We have been glad of yore.

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.

We set the best faceon it we could.

This is the man that has the face to charge others with false citations.

The Lord make his face to shine upon thee.

My face [favor] will I turn also from them.

I'll face This tempest, and deserve the name of king.

I will neither be facednor braved.

He gained also with his forces that part of Britain which faces Ireland.

Face about, man; a soldier, and afraid!

Facer

There be no greater talkers, nor boasters, nor fasers.

I should have been a stercoraceous mendicant if I had hollowed when I got a facer.

Facete

“How to interpose” with a small, smart remark, sentiment facete, or unctuous anecdote.

Facile

Order . . . will render the work facile and delightful.

The facile gates of hell too slightly barred.

I meant she should be courteous, facile, sweet.

Since Adam, and his facile consort Eve, Lost Paradise, deceived by me.

This is treating Burns like a child, a person of so facile a disposition as not to be trusted without a keeper on the king's highway.

Facilitate

To invite and facilitate that line of proceeding which the times call for.

Facility

The facility with which government has been overturned in France.

It is a great error to take facility for good nature.

Offers himself to the visits of a friend with facility.

Facound

Her facound eke full womanly and plain.

Fact

A project for the fact and vending Of a new kind of fucus, paint for ladies.

What might instigate him to this devilish fact, I am not able to conjecture.

He who most excels in fact of arms.

I do not grant the fact.

This reasoning is founded upon a fact which is not true.

Faction

They remained at Newbury in great faction among themselves.

Factionary

Always factionary on the party of your general.

Factious

Factious for the house of Lancaster.

Headlong zeal or factious fury.

Factitious

He acquires a factitious propensity, he forms an incorrigible habit, of desultory reading.

Factitive

Sometimes the idea of activity in a verb or adjective involves in it a reference to an effect, in the way of causality, in the active voice on the immediate objects, and in the passive voice on the subject of such activity. This second object is called the factitive object.

Factor

My factor sends me word, a merchant's fled That owes me for a hundred tun of wine.

The materal and dynamical factors of nutrition.

Facultative

In short, there is no facultative plurality in the mind; it is a single organ of true judgment for all purposes, cognitive or practical.

Faculty

But know that in the soul Are many lesser faculties that serve Reason as chief.

What a piece of work is a man ! how noble in reason ! how infinite in faculty !

He had a ready faculty, indeed, of escaping from any topic that agitated his too sensitive and nervous temperament.

This Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek.

The pope . . . granted him a faculty to set him free from his promise.

It had not only faculty to inspect all bishops' dioceses, but to change what laws and statutes they should think fit to alter among the colleges.

Fad

It is your favorite fad to draw plans.

Fade

His masculine taste gave him a sense of something fade and ludicrous.

The earth mourneth and fadeth away.

The stars shall fade away.

He makes a swanlike end, Fading in music.

No winter could his laurels fade.

Faded

Where the faded moon Made a dim silver twilight.

Fadedly

A dull room fadedly furnished.

Fadge

They shall be made, spite of antipathy, to fadge together.

Well, Sir, how fadges the new design ?

Fag

Creighton withheld his force till the Italian began to fag.

Read, fag, and subdue this chapter.

It is such a fag, I came back tired to death.

Fag-end

The fag-end of business.

Fail

As the waters fail from the sea.

Till Lionel's issue fails, his should not reign.

If ever they fail of beauty, this failure is not be attributed to their size.

When earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude they then begin to fail.

Had the king in his last sickness failed.

Take heed now that ye fail not to do this.

Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale.

Our envious foe hath failed.

Which ofttimes may succeed, so as perhaps Shall grieve him, if I fail not.

There shall not fail thee a man on the throne.

Though that seat of earthly bliss be failed.

Failing

And ever in her mind she cast about For that unnoticed failing in herself.

Fain

Men and birds are fain of climbing high.

To a busy man, temptation is fainto climb up together with his business.

The learned Castalio was fain to make trechers at Basle to keep himself from starving.

He would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat.

Fain Would I woo her, yet I dare not.

Whoso fair thing does fain to see.

Faineance

The mask of sneering faineance was gone.

Faint

The faint prosecution of the war.

The saint, Who propped the Virgin in her faint.

Hearing the honor intended her, she fainted away.

If I send them away fasting . . . they will faint by the way.

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

Gilded clouds, while we gaze upon them, faint before the eye.

It faints me to think what follows.

Faint-hearted

Fear not, neither be faint-hearted.

Faintness

I will send a faintness into their hearts.

Fair

A fair white linen cloth.

Who can not see many a fair French city, for one fair French made.

The northern people large and fair-complexioned.

You wish fair winds may waft him over.

The caliphs obtained a mighty empire, which was in a fair way to have enlarged.

When fair words and good counsel will not prevail on us, we must be frighted into our duty.

The news is very fair and good, my lord.

I have found out a gift for my fair.

Now fair befall thee !

Fairing the foul.

Meet me in St. Louis, Louis Meet me at the fair Don't tell me the lights are shining Anyplace but there.

Fair-world

They think it was never fair-world with them since.

Fairily

Numerous as shadows haunting fairily The brain.

Fairly

Even the nature of Mr. Dimmesdale's disease had never fairly been revealed to him.

Such means of comfort or even luxury, as lay fairly within their grasp.

Fairy

The God of her has made an end, And fro this worlde's fairy Hath taken her into company.

He [Arthur] is a king y-crowned in Fairy.

The fourth kind of spirit [is] called the Fairy.

And now about the caldron sing, Like elves and fairies in a ring.

No goblin or swart fairy of the mine Hath hurtful power over true virginity.

Faith

Faith, that is, fidelity, -- the fealty of the finite will and understanding to the reason.

Without faith it is impossible to please him [God].

The faith of the gospel is that emotion of the mind which is called “trust” or “confidence” exercised toward the moral character of God, and particularly of the Savior.

Faith is an affectionate, practical confidence in the testimony of God.

Which to believe of her, Must be a faith that reason without miracle Could never plant in me.

Now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.

Children in whom is no faith.

Whose failing, while her faith to me remains, I should conceal.

For you alone I broke me faith with injured Palamon.

The faith of the foregoing narrative.

Faithful

You are not faithful, sir.

The faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him.

So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless, faithful only he.

It is a faithful saying.

Faithless

Be not faithless, but believing.

A most unnatural and faithless service.

Faitour

Lo! faitour, there thy meed unto thee take.

Falcon

In the language of falconry, the female peregrine (Falco peregrinus) is exclusively called the falcon.

Fall

I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

I fell at his feet to worship him.

A thousand shall fall at thy side.

He rushed into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell.

I am a poor fallen man, unworthy now To be thy lord and master.

The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished.

Heaven and earth will witness, If Rome must fall, that we are innocent.

Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

I have observed of late thy looks are fallen.

The Romans fell on this model by chance.

Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall.

They do not make laws, they fall into customs.

The vernal equinox, which at the Nicene Council fell on the 21st of March, falls now [1694] about ten days sooner.

They now no longer doubted, but fell to work heart and soul.

If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.

Those captive tribes . . . fell off From God to worship calves.

A soul exasperated in ills falls out With everything, its friend, itself.

For every tear he falls, a Trojan bleeds.

Upon lessening interest to four per cent, you fall the price of your native commodities.

They thy fall conspire.

Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Beholds thee glorious only in thy fall.

What crowds of patients the town doctor kills, Or how, last fall, he raised the weekly bills.

Fallacy

Winning by conquest what the first man lost, By fallacy surprised.

Fallen

Some ruined temple or fallen monument.

fallout

Corrective action was taken in 97 of the 418 fallouts from 3,787 patients at risk.

The executive officer's group noted all fallouts by name and policed them into a group to complete the run at a slower pace.

Fallow

Who . . . pricketh his blind horse over the fallows.

The plowing of fallows is a benefit to land.

Be a complete summer fallow, land is rendered tender and mellow. The fallow gives it a better tilth than can be given by a fallow crop.

False

I to myself was false, ere thou to me.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

Whose false foundation waves have swept away.

[He] hath his truthe falsed in this wise.

In his falsed fancy.

Falsehood

Though it be a lie in the clock, it is but a falsehood in the hand of the dial when pointing at a wrong hour, if rightly following the direction of the wheel which moveth it.

Betrayed by falsehood of his guard.

For his molten image is falsehood.

No falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.

Falsely

Oppositions of science, falsely so called.

Will ye steal, murder . . . and swear falsely ?

Falsification

To counterfeit the living image of king in his person exceedeth all falsifications.

Extreme necessity . . . forced him upon this bold and violent falsification of the doctrine of the alliance.

Falsify

The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man.

By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hope.

Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffle and falsify the prediction.

It is absolutely and universally unlawful to lie and falsify.

Falsity

Probability does not make any alteration, either in the truth or falsity of things.

Men often swallow falsities for truths.

Falter

With faltering speech and visage incomposed.

Ere her native king Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms.

Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space and distance falters.

And here he faltered forth his last farewell.

Mde me most happy, faltering “I am thine.”

The falter of an idle shepherd's pipe.

Fame

The fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house.

I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited.

The field where thou art famed To have wrought such wonders.

Those Hesperian gardens famed of old.

Familiar

Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.

That war, or peace, or both at once, may be As things acquainted and familiar to us.

There is nothing more familiar than this.

All my familiars watched for my halting.

Family

The welfare of the family underlies the welfare of society.

Go ! and pretend your family is young.

Famine

There was a famine in the land.

Famish

And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread.

The pains of famished Tantalus he'll feel.

And famish him of breath, if not of bread.

He had famished Paris into a surrender.

You are all resolved rather to die than to famish?

The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish.

Famous

Famous for a scolding tongue.

Famously

Then this land was famously enriched With politic grave counsel.

Fan

Clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

The air . . . fanned with unnumbered plumes.

Calm as the breath which fans our eastern groves.

Fanatic

But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.

There is a new word, coined within few months, called fanatics, which, by the close stickling thereof, seemeth well cut out and proportioned to signify what is meant thereby, even the sectaries of our age.

Fanatics are governed rather by imagination than by judgment.

Fanciful

Gather up all fancifullest shells.

Fanciless

A pert or bluff important wight, Whose brain is fanciless, whose blood is white.

Fancy

In the soul Are many lesser faculties, that serve Reason as chief. Among these fancy next Her office holds.

How now, my lord ! why do you keep alone, Of sorriest fancies your companoins making ?

I have always had a fancy that learning might be made a play and recreation to children.

To fit your fancies to your father's will.

London pride is a pretty fancy for borders.

At a great book sale in London, which had congregated all the fancy.

If our search has reached no farther than simile and metaphor, we rather fancy than know.

He whom I fancy, but can ne'er express.

He fancied he was welcome, because those arounde him were his kinsmen.

This anxiety never degenerated into a monomania, like that which led his [Frederick the Great's] father to pay fancy prices for giants.

Fane

Such to this British Isle, her Christian fanes.

Fanfare

The fanfare announcing the arrival of the various Christian princes.

Fang

He's in the law's clutches; you see he's fanged.

Since I am a dog, beware my fangs.

The protuberant fangs of the yucca.

Fangle

To control and new fangle the Scripture.

Fangleness

He them in new fangleness did pass.

Fantastic

There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high.

Our fantastics, who, having a fine watch, take all ocasions to draw it out to be seen.

Fantastically

the letter A, in scarlet, fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom.

Fantasy

Is not this something more than fantasy ?

A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory.

Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread.

Which he doth most fantasy.

Far

They said, . . . We be come from a far country.

The nations far and near contend in choice.

They that are far from thee ahsll perish.

He was far from ill looking, though he thought himself still farther.

Who can find a virtuous woman ? for her price is far above rubies.

Farandole

I have pictured them dancing a sort of farandole.

Farce

The first principles of religion should not be farced with school points and private tenets.

His tippet was aye farsed full of knives.

If thou wouldst farce thy lean ribs.

Farcing his letter with fustian.

Farce is that in poetry which “grotesque” is in a picture: the persons and action of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false.

Farcement

They spoil a good dish with . . . unsavory farcements.

Farcical

They deny the characters to be farcical, because they are tually in in nature.

Fardel

A fardel of never-ending misery and suspense.

Fare

So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden.

So fares the stag among the enraged hounds.

I bid you most heartily well to fare.

So fared the knight between two foes.

There was a certain rich man which . . . fared sumptuously every day.

So fares it when with truth falsehood contends.

She ferde [fared] as she would die.

That nought might stay his fare.

The warder chid and made fare.

What fare? what news abroad ?

Farewell

So farewell hope, and with hope, farewell fear.

Fare thee well! and if forever, Still forever fare thee well.

And takes her farewell of the glorious sun.

Before I take my farewell of the subject.

Leans in his spear to take his farewell view.

Farfet

York with his farfet policy.

Farfetch

To farfetch the name of Tartar from a Hebrew word.

Farfetched

Every remedy contained a multitude of farfetched and heterogeneous ingredients.

Farm

It is great willfulness in landlords to make any longer farms to their tenants.

The province was devided into twelve farms.

Whereas G. H. held the farm of sugars upon a rent of 10,000 marks per annum.

We are enforced to farm our royal realm.

To farm their subjects and their duties toward these.

Farmost

A spacious cave within its farmost part.

Farmstead

With its pleasant groves and farmsteads.

Farraginous

A farraginous concurrence of all conditions, tempers, sexes, and ages.

Farrago

A confounded farrago of doubts, fears, hopes, wishes, and all the flimsy furniture of a country miss's brain.

Farther

Before our farther way the fates allow.

Let me add a farther Truth.

Some farther change awaits us.

It will be dangerous to go on. No farther !

Farthing

In her cup was no farthing seen of grease.

Thirty acres make a farthing land; nine farthings a Cornish acre; and four Cornish acres a knight's fee.

Farthingale

We'll revel it as bravely as the best, . . . With ruffs and cuffs, and farthingales and things.

Fascinate

It has been almost universally believed that . . . serpents can stupefy and fascinate the prey which they are desirous to obtain.

There be none of the passions that have been noted to fascinate or bewitch but love and envy.

Fascination

The Turks hang old rags . . . upon their fairest horses, and other goodly creatures, to secure them against fascination.

There is a certain bewitchery or fascination in words.

Fash

Without further fash on my part.

Fashion

The fashion of his countenance was altered.

I do not like the fashion of your garments.

The innocent diversions in fashion.

As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation.

Here the loud hammer fashions female toys.

Ingenious art . . . Steps forth to fashion and refine the age.

Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and conditions of the people.

Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.

Fashionable

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand.

Fashioner

The fashioner had accomplished his task, and the dresses were brought home.

Fast

Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked.

Thou didst fast and weep for the child.

Surfeit is the father of much fast.

There is an order that keeps things fast.

Outlaws . . . lurking in woods and fast places.

Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells.

All this while in a most fast sleep.

We will bind thee fast.

He, after Eve seduced, unminded slunk Into the wood fast by.

Fast by the throne obsequious Fame resides.

Fasten

The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with very different ideas fastened to them.

If I can fasten but one cup upon him.

A horse leech will hardly fasten on a fish.

Fastidious

Proud youth ! fastidious of the lower world.

Fastness

All . . . places of fastness [are] laid open.

Fat

The fats shall overflow with wine and oil.

Making our western wits fat and mean.

Make the heart of this people fat.

Now parson of Troston, a fat living in Suffolk.

Persons grown fat and wealthy by long impostures.

We fat all creatures else to fat us.

An old ox fats as well, and is as good, as a young one.

Fat-kidneyed

Peace, ye fat-kidneyed rascal !

Fatal

These thing are fatal and necessary.

It was fatal to the king to fight for his money.

That fatal screech owl to our house That nothing sung but death to us and ours.

Fatality

The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events.

The year sixty-three is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality.

By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting.

Fate

Necessity and chance Approach not me; and what I will is fate.

Beyond and above the Olympian gods lay the silent, brooding, everlasting fate of which victim and tyrant were alike the instruments.

The great, th'important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.

Our wills and fates do so contrary run That our devices still are overthrown.

The whizzing arrow sings, And bears thy fate, Antinous, on its wings.

A brave man struggling in the storms of fate.

Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams.

Fated

One midnight Fated to the purpose.

Fateful

The fateful cawings of the crow.

Father

A wise son maketh a glad father.

David slept with his fathers.

Abraham, who is the father of us all.

I was a father to the poor.

He hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house.

And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him [Elisha], . . . and said, O my father, my father!

Bless you, good father friar !

The father of all such as handle the harp and organ.

Might be the father, Harry, to that thought.

The father of good news.

Our Father, which art in heaven.

Now had the almighty Father from above . . . Bent down his eye.

Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base.

Men of wit Often fathered what he writ.

Think you I am no stronger than my sex, Being so fathered and so husbanded ?

Fatherly

You have showed a tender, fatherly regard.

Fathom

Another of his fathom they have none To lead their business.

The page of life that was spread out before me seemed dull and commonplace, only because I had not fathomed its deeper import.

Fathomless

And buckle in a waist most fathomless.

The fathomless absurdity.

Fatigate

Requickened what in flesh was fatigate.

Fatling

He sacrificed oxen and fatlings.

Fatness

Their eyes stand out with fatness.

Rich in the fatness of her plenteous soil.

The clouds drop fatness.

Fatten

And villains fatten with the brave man's labor.

Fattish

Coleridge, a puffy, anxious, obstructed-looking, fattish old man.

Fatuity

Those many forms of popular fatuity.

Fatuous

Thence fatuous fires and meteors take their birth.

Faucal

Ayin is the most difficult of the faucals.

Faule

These laces, ribbons, and these faules.

Fault

One, it pleases me, for fault of a better, to call my friend.

As patches set upon a little breach Discredit more in hiding of the fault.

Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, With much ado, the cold fault cleary out.

For that I will not fault thee.

If after Samuel's death the people had asked of God a king, they had not faulted.

Faulter

Behold the faulter here in sight.

Faultiness

Round, even to faultiness.

Faultless

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.

Faulty

Created once So goodly and erect, though faulty since.

The king doth speak . . . as one which is faulty.

Faun

Satyr or Faun, or Sylvan.

Faust

A metrical version of it into English was licensed by Aylmer, Bishop of London, before the end of the year. In 1588 there was a rimed version of it into German, also a translation into low German, and a new edition of the original with some slight changes. In 1689 there appeared a version of the first German Faust book into, French, by Victor Palma Cayet. The English prose version was made from the second edition of the original, that of 1588, and is undated, but probably was made at once. There was a revised edition of it in 1592. In 1592 there was a Dutch translation from the second German edition. This gives the time of the carrying off of Faustus by the devil as the night between the twenty-third and twenty-fourth of October, 1538. The English version also gives 1538 as the year, and it is a date, as we have seen, consistent with trustworthy references to his actual life. Marlowe's play ('The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus') was probably written in 1588, soon after the original story had found its way to England. He treated the legend as a poet, bringing out with all his power its central thought -- man in the pride of knowledge turning from his God.

Fautor

The king and the fautors of his proceedings.

favillous

Light and favillous particles.

favor

Hath crawled into the favor of the king.

But found no favor in his lady's eyes.

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.

Beg one favor at thy gracious hand.

I could not discover the lenity and favor of this sentence.

All these his wondrous works, but chiefly man, His chief delight and favor.

Wear thou this favor for me, and stick it in thy cap.

This boy is fair, of female favor.

But, with your favor, I will treat it here.

O happy youth! and favored of the skies.

He that favoreth Joab, . . . let him go after Joab.

[The painter] has favored her squint admirably.

The porter owned that the gentleman favored his master.

Favorable

Lend favorable ears to our request.

Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land.

A place very favorable for the making levies of men.

The temper of the climate, favorable to generation, health, and long life.

The favorableness of the present times to all exertions in the cause of liberty.

Favorer

And come to us as favorers, not as foes.

Favorite

Committing to a wicked favorite All public cares.

Favoritism

A spirit of favoritism to the Bank of the United States.

Fawn

[The tigress] . . . followeth . . . after her fawns.

You showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like hounds.

Thou with trembling fear, Or like a fawning parasite, obeyest.

Courtiers who fawn on a master while they betray him.

fealty

He should maintain fealty to God.

Makes wicked lightnings of her eyes, and saps The fealty of our friends.

Swore fealty to the new government.

Fear

Fear is an uneasiness of the mind, upon the thought of future evil likely to befall us.

Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

I will put my fear in their hearts.

I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

Render therefore to all their dues; tribute to whom tribute is due . . . fear to whom fear.

There were they in great fear, where no fear was.

The fear of your adventure would counsel you to a more equal enterprise.

I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.

I greatly fear my money is not safe.

Leave them to God above; him serve and fear.

The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children, therefore . . . I fear you.

Ay what else, fear you not her courage?

Fear their people from doing evil.

Tush, tush! fear boys with bugs.

I exceedingly fear and quake.

Fearful

Anxious amidst all their success, and fearful amidst all their power.

What man is there that is fearful and faint-hearted?

Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh.

This glorious and fearful name, The Lord thy God.

Death is a fearful thing.

In dreams they fearful precipices tread.

Feasibility

Men often swallow falsities for truths, dubiosities for certainties, possibilities for feasibilities.

Feasible

Always existing before their eyes as a thing feasible in practice.

It was not feasible to gratify so many ambitions.

Feast

The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord.

Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.

Enough is as good as a feast.

Belshazzar the King made a great feast to a thousand of his lords.

The feast of reason, and the flow of soul.

And his sons went and feasted in their houses.

With my love's picture then my eye doth feast.

Feast your ears with the music a while.

Feat

The warlike feats I have done.

To the more mature, A glass that feated them.

Never master had a page . . . so feat.

And look how well my garments sit upon me -- Much feater than before.

Feather

I am not of that feather to shake off My friend when he must need me.

An eagle had the ill hap to be struck with an arrow feathered from her own wing.

A few birches and oaks still feathered the narrow ravines.

The Polonian story perhaps may feather some tedious hours.

They stuck not to say that the king cared not to plume his nobility and people to feather himself.

The feathering oar returns the gleam.

Stopping his sculls in the air to feather accurately.

A clump of ancient cedars feathering in evergreen beauty down to the ground.

The ripple feathering from her bows.

Feathered

Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury.

Nonsense feathered with soft and delicate phrases and pointed with pathetic accent.

Feathery

Ye feathery people of mid air.

Featly

Foot featly here and there.

Feature

What needeth it his feature to descrive?

Cheated of feature by dissembling nature.

It is for homely features to keep home.

And to her service bind each living creature Through secret understanding of their feature.

So scented the grim feature, and upturned His nostril wide into the murky air.

Featured

How noble, young, how rarely featured!

The well-stained canvas or the featured stone.

Featurely

Featurely warriors of Christian chivalry.

Feck

He had a feck o' books wi' him.

Feculent

Both his hands most filthy feculent.

Federal

The Romans compelled them, contrary to all federal right, . . . to part with Sardinia.

Fee

Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee.

To plead for love deserves more fee than hate.

Buy the fee simple of my life for an hour and a quarter.

The patient . . . fees the doctor.

There's not a one of them but in his house I keep a servant feed.

Feeble

Carried all the feeble of them upon asses.

Shall that victorious hand be feebled here?

Feebleness

That shakes for age and feebleness.

Feebly

The restored church . . . contended feebly, and with half a heart.

Feed

If thine enemy hunger, feed him.

Unreasonable creatures feed their young.

I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.

Feeding him with the hope of liberty.

Thou shalt feed my people Israel.

Mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed.

Once in three years feed your mowing lands.

Her kid . . . which I afterwards killed because it would not feed.

Leaving thy trunk for crows to feed upon.

If a man . . . shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field.

For such pleasure till that hour At feed or fountain never had I found.

Feeder

A couple of friends, his chaplain and feeder.

With eager feeding, food doth choke the feeder.

Feel

Who feel Those rods of scorpions and those whips of steel.

Come near, . . . that I may feel thee, my son.

He hath this to feel my affection to your honor.

Teach me to feel another's woe.

Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing.

He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

Mankind have felt their strength and made it felt.

For then, and not till then, he felt himself.

[She] feels with the dignity of a Roman matron.

And mine as man, who feel for all mankind.

I then did feel full sick.

Garlands . . . which I feel I am not worthy yet to wear.

Blind men say black feels rough, and white feels smooth.

To intercept and have a more kindly feel of its genial warmth.

The difference between these two tumors will be distinguished by the feel.

Feeler

Insects . . . perpetually feeling and searching before them with their feelers or antennæ.

Feeling

Why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined, . . . And not, as feeling, through all parts diffused?

The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.

A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind.

Tenderness for the feelings of others.

Feign

There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.

The poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods.

Feigned

Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

Her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly.

Feint

Dressed up into any feint appearance of it.

Courtley's letter is but a feint to get off.

Felicitate

I am alone felicitate In your dear highness' love.

What a glorious entertainment and pleasure would fill and felicitate his spirit.

Every true heart must felicitate itself that its lot is cast in this kingdom.

Felicitous

Felicitous words and images.

Felicity

Our own felicity we make or find.

Finally, after this life, to attain everlasting joy and felicity.

the felicities of her wonderful reign.

Fell

While we devise fell tortures for thy faults.

I am so fell to my business.

Untroubled of vile fear or bitter fell.

We are still handling our ewes, and their fells, you know, are greasy.

Stand, or I'll fell thee down.

Fellon

Those two were foes the fellonest on ground.

Fellow

The fellows of his crime.

We are fellows still, Serving alike in sorrow.

That enormous engine was flanked by two fellows almost of equal magnitude.

Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow.

It is impossible that ever Rome Should breed thy fellow.

When they be but heifers of one year, . . . they are let go to the fellow and breed.

This was my glove; here is the fellow of it.

She seemed to be a good sort of fellow.

Were the great duke himself here, and would lift up My head to fellow pomp amongst his nobles.

Fellow-creature

Reason, by which we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes.

Fellowless

Whose well-built walls are rare and fellowless.

Fellowship

In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods.

Men are made for society and mutual fellowship.

The great contention of the sea and skies Parted our fellowship.

Fellowship in pain divides not smart.

Fellowship in woe doth woe assuage.

The goodliest fellowship of famous knights, Whereof this world holds record.

The sorrow of Noah with his fellowship.

With that a joyous fellowship issued Of minstrels.

There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.

Felly

Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel.

Felon

Vain shows of love to vail his felon hate.

Felonious

O thievish Night, Why should'st thou, but for some felonious end, In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars?

Felt

It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt.

To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.

Felter

His feltered locks that on his bosom fell.

Female

The male and female of each living thing.

As patient as the female dove When that her golden couplets are disclosed.

To the generous decision of a female mind, we owe the discovery of America.

Femalist

Courting her smoothly like a femalist.

Feminine

Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine ease and grace.

Her heavenly form Angelic, but more soft and feminine.

Ninus being esteemed no man of war at all, but altogether feminine, and subject to ease and delicacy.

They guide the feminines toward the palace.

There are but few true feminines in English.

Femininity

O serpent under femininitee.

Fen

'Mid reedy fens wide spread.

Fence

Let us be backed with God and with the seas, Which he hath given for fence impregnable.

A fence betwixt us and the victor's wrath.

Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold.

Enjoy your dear wit, and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzing fence.

Of dauntless courage and consummate skill in fence.

To fence my ear against thy sorceries.

O thou wall! . . . dive in the earth, And fence not Athens.

A sheepcote fenced about with olive trees.

Vice is the more stubborn as well as the more dangerous evil, and therefore, in the first place, to be fenced against.

He will fence with his own shadow.

They fence and push, and, pushing, loudly roar; Their dewlaps and their sides are bated in gore.

As when a billow, blown against, Falls back, the voice with which I fenced A little ceased, but recommenced.

Fencer

As blunt as the fencer's foils.

Fencible

No fort so fencible, nor walls so strong.

Fend

With fern beneath to fend the bitter cold.

The dexterous management of terms, and being able to fend . . . with them, passes for a great part of learning.

Fennel

Smell of sweetest fennel.

A sprig of fennel was in fact the theological smelling bottle of the tender sex.

Feodary

Art thou a feodary for this act?

Fere

And Cambel took Cambrina to his fere.

Ferier

Rhenus ferier than the cataract.

Ferly

Who hearkened ever such a ferly thing.

Ferm

Out of her fleshy ferme fled to the place of pain.

Ferment

Subdue and cool the ferment of desire.

the nation is in a ferment.

Down to the lowest lees the ferment ran.

Ye vigorous swains! while youth ferments your blood.

But finding no redress, ferment and rage.

The intellect of the age was a fermenting intellect.

Fermentation

It puts the soul to fermentation and activity.

A univesal fermentation of human thought and faith.

Ferocious

The humbled power of a ferocious enemy.

ferociousness

It [Christianity] has adapted the ferociousness of war.

Ferocity

The pride and ferocity of a Highland chief.

Ferrandine

I did buy a colored silk ferrandine.

Ferret

Master Fer! I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him.

Ferry

They ferry over this Lethean sound Both to and fro.

It can pass the ferry backward into light.

To row me o'er the ferry.

Fertile

Though he in a fertile climate dwell.

Henceforth, my early care . . . Shall tend thee, and the fertile burden ease Of thy full branches.

Fertility

And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps Corrupting in its own fertility.

Thy very weeds are beautiful; thy waste More rich than other climes' fertility.

Fertilize

And fertilize the field that each pretends to gain.

Fervency

When you pray, let it be with attention, with fervency, and with perseverance.

Fervent

The elements shall melt with fervent heat.

Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit.

So spake the fervent angel.

A fervent desire to promote the happiness of mankind.

Laboring fervently for you in prayers.

Fervid

The mounted sun Shot down direct his fervid rays.

The fervid wishes, holy fires.

Fervor

The fevor of ensuing day.

Winged with fervor of her love.

Fescue

To come under the fescue of an imprimatur.

Festal

You bless with choicer wine the festal day.

Fester

Wounds immedicable Rankle, and fester, and gangrene.

Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester.

Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children of the soil.

For which I burnt in inward, swelt'ring hate, And festered ranking malice in my breast.

The fester of the chain their necks.

Festi-val

The morning trumpets festival proclaimed.

Festival

I cannot woo in festival terms.

Festive

The glad circle round them yield their souls To festive mirth and wit that knows no gall.

Festivity

The unrestrained festivity of the rustic youth.

Festucine

A little insect of a festucine or pale green.

Fet

And from the other fifty soon the prisoner fet.

Fetch

Time will run back and fetch the age of gold.

He called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. And as she was going to fetch it he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.

Our native horses were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices.

Fetching men again when they swoon.

The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.

I'll fetch a turn about the garden.

He fetches his blow quick and sure.

Meantine flew our ships, and straight we fetched The siren's isle.

They could n't fetch the butter in the churn.

Every little fetch of wit and criticism.

The very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp.

fetichism

The real and absolute worship of fire falls into two great divisions, the first belonging rather to fetichism, the second to polytheism proper.

Fetichist

He was by nature a fetichist.

Fetichistic

A man of the fifteenth century, inheriting its strange web of belief and unbelief, of epicurean levity and fetichistic dread.

Fetid

Most putrefactions . . . smell either fetid or moldy.

Fetis

Full fetis was her cloak, as I was ware.

Fetlock

Their wounded steeds Fret fetlock deep in gore.

Fetter

[They] bound him with fetters of brass.

Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound.

My heels are fettered, but my fist is free.

My conscience! thou art fettered More than my shanks and wrists.

Feud

Mutual feuds and battles betwixt their several tribes and kindreds.

Feudatory

The grantee . . . was styled the feudatory or vassal.

[He] had for feudatories great princes.

Fever

An envious fever Of pale and bloodless emulation.

After life's fitful fever he sleeps well.

The white hand of a lady fever thee.

Feverish

Strive to keep up a frail and feverish being.

Feverous

His heart, love's feverous citadel.

All maladies . . . all feverous kinds.

Few

Few know and fewer care.

Fiar

I am fiar of the lands; she a life renter.

Fiat

His fiat laid the corner stone.

Fib

They are very serious; they don't tell fibs.

Fiber

Yet had no fibers in him, nor no force.

fibula

Mere fibulæ, without a robe to clasp.

Fickle

They know how fickle common lovers are.

Fico

Steal! foh, a fico for the phrase.

Fictile

Fictile earth is more fragile than crude earth.

The earliest specimens of Italian fictile art.

Fiction

The fiction of those golden apples kept by a dragon.

When it could no longer be denied that her flight had been voluntary, numerous fictions were invented to account for it.

The office of fiction as a vehicle of instruction and moral elevation has been recognized by most if not all great educators.

Fictitious

The human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones.

Fiddle

Themistocles . . . said he could not fiddle, but he could make a small town a great city.

Talking, and fiddling with their hats and feathers.

Fidelity

Whose courageous fidelity was proof to all danger.

The best security for the fidelity of men is to make interest coincide with duty.

The principal thing required in a witness is fidelity.

Fiduciary

Instrumental to the conveying God's blessing upon those whose fiduciaries they are.

Field

Fields which promise corn and wine.

In this glorious and well-foughten field.

What though the field be lost?

Without covering, save yon field of stars.

Ask of yonder argent fields above.

Afforded a clear field for moral experiments.

Fielded

To help fielded friends.

Fielden

The fielden country also and plains.

Fieldwork

All works which do not come under the head of permanent fortification are called fieldworks.

fiend

Into this wild abyss the wary fiend Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while.

O woman! woman! when to ill thy mind Is bent, all hell contains no fouler fiend.

Fierce

His fierce thunder drove us to the deep.

The fierce foe hung upon our broken rear.

Thou huntest me as a fierce lion.

Fiery

And fiery billows roll below.

Hath thy fiery heart so parched thine entrails?

The fiery spirit of his forefathers.

You know the fiery quality of the duke.

One curbed the fiery steed.

The sword which is made fiery.

Fiesta

Even . . . a bullfight is a fiesta.

Some fiesta, when all the surrounding population were expected to turn out in holiday dress for merriment.

Fig

When Pistol lies, do this, and fig me like The bragging Spaniard.

Were they all in full fig, the females with feathers on their heads, the males with chapeaux bras?

Figent

Such a little figent thing.

Figgum

The devil is the author of wicked figgum.

Fight

You do fight against your country's foes.

To fight with thee no man of arms will deign.

He had to fight his way through the world.

I have fought a good fight.

Who now defies thee thrice to single fight.

Up with your fights, and your nettings prepare.

Fighting

An host of fighting men.

Figment

Social figments, feints, and formalism.

It carried rather an appearance of figment and invention . . . than of truth and reality.

Figuline

Whose figulines and rustic wares Scarce find him bread from day to day.

Figurable

Lead is figurable, but water is not.

Figurate

Plants are all figurate and determinate, which inanimate bodies are not.

Figurative

This, they will say, was figurative, and served, by God's appointment, but for a time, to shadow out the true glory of a more divine sanctity.

They belonged to a nation dedicated to the figurative arts, and they wrote for a public familiar with painted form.

Figure

Flowers have all exquisite figures.

A coin that bears the figure of an angel.

I made some figure there.

Gentlemen of the best figure in the county.

That he may live in figure and indulgence.

With nineteen thousand a year at the very lowest figure.

Who is the figure of Him that was to come.

To represent the imagination under the figure of a wing.

If love, alas! be pain I bear, No thought can figure, and no tongue declare.

The vaulty top of heaven Figured quite o'er with burning meteors.

As through a crystal glass the figured hours are seen.

Whose white vestments figure innocence.

In this the heaven figures some event.

Sociable, hospitable, eloquent, admired, figuring away brilliantly.

Filch

Fain would they filch that little food away.

But he that filches from me my good name, Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.

File

It is upon a file with the duke's other letters.

Let me resume the file of my narration.

I would have my several courses and my dishes well filed.

To file a paper, on the part of a party, is to place it in the official custody of the clerk. To file, on the part of the clerk, is to indorse upon the paper the date of its reception, and retain it in his office, subject to inspection by whomsoever it may concern.

My endeavors Have ever come too short of my desires, Yet filed with my abilities.

Mock the nice touches of the critic's file.

Will is an old file in spite of his smooth face.

File your tongue to a little more courtesy.

All his hairy breast with blood was filed.

For Banquo's issue have I filed my mind.

Filial

And thus the filial Godhead answering spoke.

Filiation

The relation of paternity and filiation.

Filigrain

With her head . . . touches the crown of filigrane.

Filigree

You ask for reality, not fiction and filigree work.

Filipino

Then there are Filipinos, -- “children of the country,” they are called, -- who are supposed to be pure-blooded descendants of Spanish settlers. But there are few of them without some touch of Chinese or native blood.

Fill

The rain also filleth the pools.

Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. Anf they filled them up to the brim.

And God blessed them, saying. Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas.

The Syrians filled the country.

Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fillso great a multitude?

Things that are sweet and fat are more filling.

Give me some wine; fill full.

I'll bear thee hence, where I may weep my fill.

Filler

'T is mere filler, to stop a vacancy in the hexameter.

They have six diggers to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work.

Fillet

A belt her waist, a fillet binds her hair.

Fillip

The use of the elastic switch to fillip small missiles with.

I take a glass of grog for a filip.

Filly

Neighing in likeness of a filly foal.

Film

He from thick films shall purge the visual ray.

Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film.

It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.

Filmy

Whose filmy cord should bind the struggling fly.

Filth

To purify the soul from the dross and filth of sensual delights.

Filthiness

Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit.

Carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.

Filthy

He which is filthy let him be filthy still.

Final

Yet despair not of his final pardon.

Finally

Whom patience finally must crown.

Not any house of noble English in Ireland was utterly destroyed or finally rooted out.

Finance

All the finances or revenues of the imperial crown.

Securing foreign capital to finance multitudinous undertakings.

Find

Searching the window for a flint, I found This paper, thus sealed up.

In woods and forests thou art found.

The torrid zone is now found habitable.

Seek, and ye shall find.

Every mountain now hath found a tongue.

Wages £14 and all found.

Nothing a day and find yourself.

To find his title with some shows of truth.

Finding

When a man hath been laboring . . . in the deep mines of knowledge, hath furnished out his findings in all their equipage.

After his friends finding and his rent.

findy

A cold May and a windy Makes the barn fat and findy.

fine

The gain thereof [is better] than fine gold.

A cup of wine that's brisk and fine.

Not only the finest gentleman of his time, but one of the finest scholars.

To soothe the sick bed of so fine a being [Keats].

He gratified them with occasional . . . fine writing.

The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine!

The nicest and most delicate touches of satire consist in fine raillery.

He has as fine a hand at picking a pocket as a woman.

The eye standeth in the finer medium and the object in the grosser.

Ye have made a fine hand, fellows.

It hath been fined and refined by . . . learned men.

I often sate at home On evenings, watching how they fined themselves With gradual conscience to a perfect night.

Is this the fine of his fines?

Men fined for the king's good will; or that he would remit his anger; women fined for leave to marry.

I watched her [the ship] . . . gradually fining down in the westward until I lost of her hull.

Fineness

The fineness of the gold, and chargeful fashion.

Finery

Don't choose your place of study by the finery of the prospects.

Her mistress' cast-off finery.

Finesse

This is the artificialest piece of finesse to persuade men into slavery.

Finger

A piece of steel three fingers thick.

She has a good finger.

Let the papers lie; You would be fingering them to anger me.

Fingering

The mere sight and fingering of money.

Finical

The gross style consists in giving no detail, the finical in giving nothing else.

Finific

The essential finific in the form of the finite.

Finify

Hath so pared and finified them [his feet.]

Finish

And heroically hath finished A life heroic.

His days may finish ere that hapless time.

Finisher

O prophet of glad tidings, finisher Of utmost hope!

Finny

With patient angle trolls the finny deep.

Fire

he had fire in his temper.

And bless their critic with a poet's fire.

Stars, hide your fires.

As in a zodiac representing the heavenly fires.

Love had fired my mind.

[The sun] fires the proud tops of the eastern pines.

Till my bad angel fire my good one out.

Fire-new

Your fire-new stamp of honor is scarce current.

firework

Night before last, the Duke of Richmond gave a firework.

Firk

I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him.

A wench is a rare bait, with which a man No sooner's taken but he straight firks mad.

Firm

Under spread ensigns, moving nigh, in slow But firm battalion.

By one man's firm obediency fully tried.

And Jove has firmed it with an awful nod.

He on his card and compass firms his eye.

Firmament

Custom is the . . . firmament of the law.

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament.

Firmless

Does passion still the firmless mind control?

Firry

In firry woodlands making moan.

First

It is the intention of the person to reveal it at first hand, by way of mouth, to yourself.

See, Father, what first fruits on earth are sprung From thy implanted grace in man!

Adam was first formed, then Eve.

And all are fools and lovers first or last.

First-hand

One sphere there is . . . where the apprehension of him is first-hand and direct; and that is the sphere of our own mind.

First-rate

Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German.

Hermocrates . . . a man of first-rate ability.

Firstling

The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand.

All the firstling males.

Fiscal

The fiscal arrangements of government.

Fish

Any other fishing question.

Fishlike

A very ancient and fishlike smell.

Fisk

He fisks abroad, and stirreth up erroneous opinions.

Fissile

This crystal is a pellucid, fissile stone.

Fist

Who grasp the earth and heaven with my fist.

More light than culver in the falcon's fist.

Fistuliform

Stalactite often occurs fistuliform.

Fit

To play some pleasant fit.

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in.

Fit audience find, though few.

So fit to shoot, she singled forth among her foes who first her quarry's strength should feel.

Is it fit to say a king, Thou art wicked?

The time is fitted for the duty.

The very situation for which he was peculiarly fitted by nature.

The carpenter . . . marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes.

No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves.

That's a bountiful answer that fits all questions.

That time best fits the work.

Nor fits it to prolong the feast.

Curse on that cross, quoth then the Sarazin, That keeps thy body from the bitter fit.

And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake.

All fits of pleasure we balanced by an equal degree of pain.

The English, however, were on this subject prone to fits of jealously.

The fits of the season.

A tongue of light, a fit of flame.

Fitful

After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well.

The victorious trumpet peal Dies fitfully away.

Fitter

Where's the Frenchman? Alas, he's all fitters.

Five

Five of them were wise, and five were foolish.

Fix

An ass's nole I fixed on his head.

O, fix thy chair of grace, that all my powers May also fix their reverence.

His heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord.

And fix far deeper in his head their stings.

Sat fixed in thought the mighty Stagirite.

One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.

Your kindness banishes your fear, Resolved to fix forever here.

Is he not living, then? No. is he dead, then? No, nor dead either. Poor Aroar can not live, and can not die, -- so that he is in an almighty fix.

Fixation

An unalterable fixation of resolution.

To light, created in the first day, God gave no proper place or fixation.

Marked stiffness or absolute fixation of a joint.

A fixation and confinement of thought to a few objects.

Fixture

The firm fixture of thy foot.

fizzle

It is the easiest thing, sir, to be done, As plain as fizzling.

A four-day rally in stocks fizzled yesterday amid renewed fears that strong economic growth may prompt the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates.

flaccid

Religious profession . . . has become flacced.

Flag

As loose it [the sail] flagged around the mast.

The pleasures of the town begin to flag.

Nothing so flags the spirits.

The antelope are getting continually shyer and more difficult to flag.

The sides and floor are all flagged with . . . marble.

Flagitious

Debauched principles and flagitious practices.

A sentence so flagitiously unjust.

Flagon

A trencher of mutton chops, and a flagon of ale.

Flagpole sitter

He [Shipwreck Kelly] was the great flagpole sitter of the thirties, the founding father of the whole discipline, who provided inspiration for many and even the pseudonym for one -- Van Nolan, who also called himself Shipwreck. Any serious polesitter believes himself an avatar of Shipwreck Kelly, and I was then and am now no exception.

The two other holy men in Gregory's narrative had more exotic origins than the pair that has just been seen. Gregory encountered one of them when on a journey to the north-eastern parts of the Frankish kingdom. This was a Lombard, named Vulfolaic, who had spent some years in the arduous exercise of being a stylite, the Christian equivalent of a flagpole sitter; in other words, Vulfolaic was a monk whose main austerity consisted in living on top of a pillar. By carrying out this feat in the rain, snow, and frost of the Moselle valley, Vulfolaic had convinced the local population to overthrow and abandon the idol of Diana to which they were addicted.

Flagrancy

Lust causeth a flagrancy in the eyes.

Flagrant

The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back.

A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle.

Flagrant desires and affections.

A war the most powerful of the native tribes was flagrant.

Flail

His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn.

No citizen thought himself safe unless he carried under his coat a small flail, loaded with lead, to brain the Popish assassins.

Flake

You shall also, after they be ripe, neither suffer them to have straw nor fern under them, but lay them either upon some smooth table, boards, or flakes of wands, and they will last the longer.

Great flakes of ice encompassing our boat.

With flakes of ruddy fire.

Flake after flake ran out of the tubs, until we were compelled to hand the end of our line to the second mate.

Flaky

What showers of mortal hail, what flaky fires!

A flaky weight of winter's purest snows.

Flam

A perpetual abuse and flam upon posterity.

God is not to be flammed off with lies.

Flame

Where flames refin'd in breasts seraphic glow.

Smit with the love of sister arts we came, And met congenial, mingling flame with flame.

The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing would make it flame again.

He flamed with indignation.

And flamed with zeal of vengeance inwardly.

Flamelet

The flamelets gleamed and flickered.

Flamen

Affrights the flamens at their service quaint.

Flank

When to right and left the front Divided, and to either flank retired.

Stately colonnades are flanked with trees.

Flanker

They threw out flankers, and endeavored to dislodge their assailants.

Flap

A cartilaginous flap upon the opening of the larynx.

Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings.

The crows flapped over by twos and threes.

Flapdragon

Cakes and ale, and flapdragons and mummer's plays, and all the happy sports of Christians night.

See how the sea flapdragoned it.

Flare

With ribbons pendant, flaring about her head.

Flaring in sunshine all the day.

Flaring

His [the sun's] flaring beams.

Flash

Names which have flashed and thundered as the watch words of unnumbered struggles.

The object is made to flash upon the eye of the mind.

A thought flashed through me, which I clothed in act.

Every hour He flashes into one gross crime or other.

The chariot of paternal Deity, Flashing thick flames.

Limning and flashing it with various dyes.

He rudely flashed the waves about.

The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind.

No striking sentiment, no flash of fancy.

The Persians and Macedonians had it for a flash.

Flashy

A little flashy and transient pleasure.

A temper always flashy.

Lean and flashy songs.

Flasket

In which they gathered flowers to fill their flasket.

Flat

Though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk.

What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat!

I feel . . . my hopes all flat.

A large part of the work is, to me, very flat.

How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world.

Flat burglary as ever was committed.

A great tobacco taker too, -- that's flat.

Of all who fell by saber or by shot, Not one fell half so flat as Walter Scott.

Sin is flat opposite to the Almighty.

Envy is as the sunbeams that beat hotter upon a bank, or steep rising ground, than upon a flat.

Half my power, this night Passing these flats, are taken by the tide.

Or if you can not make a speech, Because you are a flat.

Passions are allayed, appetites are flatted.

Flatly

He that does the works of religion slowly, flatly, and without appetite.

Flatter

When I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered.

A man that flattereth his neighbor, spreadeth a net for his feet.

Others he flattered by asking their advice.

If it may stand him more in stead to lie, Say and unsay, feign, flatter, or adjure.

Flatterer

The most abject flaterers degenerate into the greatest tyrants.

Flattering

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.

A flattering painter, who made it his care, To draw men as they ought be, not as they are.

Flattery

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Flatulent

Vegetables abound more with aërial particles than animal substances, and therefore are more flatulent.

He is too flatulent sometimes, and sometimes too dry.

Flaunt

You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot.

One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade.

In these my borrowed flaunts.

Flaw

This heart Shall break into a hundered thousand flaws.

Has not this also its flaws and its dark side?

And deluges of armies from the town Came pouring in; I heard the mighty flaw.

Snow, and hail, and stormy gust and flaw.

Like flaws in summer laying lusty corn.

The brazen caldrons with the frosts are flawed.

France hath flawed the league.

Flay

With her nails She 'll flay thy wolfish visage.

Flea

He will be fleaed first And horse collars made of's skin.

Fleak

Little long fleaks or threads of hemp.

Fleamy

Foamy bubbling of a fleamy brain.

Fleck

Life is dashed with flecks of sin.

Both flecked with white, the true Arcadian strain.

A bird, a cloud, flecking the sunny air.

Fleckless

My consnience will not count me fleckless.

Flectional

A flectional word is a phrase in the bud.

Fledge

His shoulders, fledge with wings.

The birds were not as yet fledged enough to shift for themselves.

Your master, whose chin is not yet fledged.

Flee

[He] cowardly fled, not having struck one stroke.

Flee fornication.

So fled his enemies my warlike father.

Fleece

Who shore me Like a tame wether, all my precious fleece.

Whilst pope and prince shared the wool betwixt them, the people were finely fleeced.

fleer

To fleer and scorn at our solemnity.

Grinning and fleering as though they went to a bear baiting.

And mark the fleers, the gibes, and notable scorn.

A sly, treacherous fleer on the face of deceivers.

fleet

And in frail wood on Adrian Gulf doth fleet.

All the unaccomplished works of Nature's hand, . . . Dissolved on earth, fleet hither.

Many young gentlemen flock to him, and fleet the time carelessly.

We got the long “stick” . . . down and “fleeted” aft, where it was secured.

In mail their horses clad, yet fleet and strong.

Together wove we nets to entrap the fish In floods and sedgy fleets.

Flense

the flensed carcass of a fur seal.

Flesh

With roasted flesh, or milk, and wastel bread.

As if this flesh, which walls about our life, Were brass impregnable.

All flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart.

He is our brother and our flesh.

Full bravely hast thou fleshed Thy maiden sword.

The wild dog Shall flesh his tooth on every innocent.

Old soldiers Fleshed in the spoils of Germany and France.

Fleshed

Fleshed with slaughter.

Flesher

A flesher on a block had laid his whittle down.

Fleshhood

Thou, who hast thyself Endured this fleshhood.

Fleshly

Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm And fragile arms.

Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

Fleshpot

In the land of Egypt . . . we sat by the fleshpots, and . . . did eat bread to the full.

Fleshy

The sole of his foot is fleshy.

Fletch

[Congress] fletched their complaint, by adding: “America loved his brother.”

Flexibility

All the flexibility of a veteran courtier.

Flexible

When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks.

Phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to the will of the people.

Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible.

This was a principle more flexible to their purpose.

Flexion

Express the syntactical relations by flexion.

Flexure

Will it give place to flexure and low bending?

Varying with the flexures of the valley through which it meandered.

Flick

Rude boys were flicking butter pats across chaos.

She actually took the whip out of his hand and gave a flick to the pony.

Flicker

And flickering on her nest made short essays to sing.

The shadows flicker to fro.

The cackle of the flicker among the oaks.

Flidge

Every day build their nests, every hour flidge.

Flight

Like the night owl's lazy flight.

Pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.

Fain by flight to save themselves.

Could he have kept his spirit to that flight, He had been happy.

His highest flights were indeed far below those of Taylor.

Swift flights of angels ministrant.

Like a flight of fowl Scattered winds and tempestuous gusts.

Challenged Cupid at the flight.

Not a flight drawn home E'er made that haste that they have.

Flight-shot

Within a flight-shot it inthe valley.

Half a flight-shot from the king's oak.

Flightiness

The flightness of her temper.

Flighty

The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it.

Proofs of my flighty and paradoxical turn of mind.

A harsh disciplinarian and a flighty enthusiast.

Flimsy

Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines.

All the flimsy furniture of a country miss's brain.

Flinch

A child, by a constant course of kindness, may be accustomed to bear very rough usage without flinching or complaining.

Flinders

The tough ash spear, so stout and true, Into a thousand flinders flew.

Fling

'T is Fate that flings the dice: and, as she flings, Of kings makes peasants, and of peasants kings.

He . . . like Jove, his lighting flung.

I know thy generous temper well. Fling but the appearance of dishonor on it, It straight takes fire.

The sun begins to fling His flaring beams.

Every beam new transient colors flings.

His horse started, flung him, and fell upon him.

Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition.

This question so flung down before the guests, . . . Was handed over by consent of all To me who had not spoken.

And crop-full, out of doors he flings.

I flung closer to his breast, As sword that, after battle, flings to sheath.

I, who love to have a fling, Both at senate house and king.

England were but a fling Save for the crooked stick and the gray goose wing.

Flip

As when your little ones Do 'twixt their fingers flip their cherry stones.

Flippancy

This flippancy of language.

Flippant

It becometh good men, in such cases, to be flippant and free in their speech.

To put flippant scorn to the blush.

A sort of flippant, vain discourse.

Flirt

I am ashamed; I am scorned; I am flirted.

Several little flirts and vibrations.

With many a flirt and flutter.

Several young flirts about town had a design to cast us out of the fashionable world.

Flirt-gill

You heard him take me up like a flirt-gill.

Flirtation

The flirtations and jealousies of our ball rooms.

Flit

A shadow flits before me.

It became a received opinion, that the souls of men, departing this life, did flit out of one body into some other.

And the free soul to flitting air resigned.

Flite

The bird of Pallas has also a good “flyte” on the moral side . . . in his suggestion that the principal effect of the nightingale's song is to make women false to their husbands.

Flitting

A neighbor had lent his cart for the flitting, and it was now standing loaded at the door, ready to move away.

These “flytings” consisted of alternate torrents of sheer Billingsgate poured upon each other by the combatants.

Float

This reform bill . . . had been used as a float by the conservative ministry.

The ark no more now floats, but seems on ground.

Three blustering nights, borne by the southern blast, I floated.

They stretch their broad plumes and float upon the wind.

There seems a floating whisper on the hills.

Had floated that bell on the Inchcape rock.

Proud Pactolus floats the fruitful lands.

Floating

Trade was at an end. Floating capital had been withdrawn in great masses from the island.

Flocculate

When applied to clay soils it [lime] binds the small particles together, or flocculates them.

Flock

The heathen . . . came to Nicanor by flocks.

As half amazed, half frighted all his flock.

Friends daily flock.

Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so.

I prythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks in the point [pommel].

Flockmel

That flockmel on a day they to him went.

Flood

A covenant never to destroy The earth again by flood.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

Floor

Floored or crushed by him.

I've floored my little-go work.

Florentine

Stealing custards, tarts, and florentines.

Florid

Fruit from a pleasant and florid tree.

Flotery

With flotery beard.

Flounce

To flutter and flounce will do nothing but batter and bruise us.

With his broad fins and forky tail he laves The rising sirge, and flounces in the waves.

Flounder

They have floundered on from blunder to blunder.

Flourish

A tree thrives and flourishes in a kindly . . . soil.

When all the workers of iniquity do flourish.

Bad men as frequently prosper and flourish, and that by the means of their wickedness.

We say Of those that held their heads above the crowd, They flourished then or then.

They dilate . . . and flourish long on little incidents.

Impetuous spread The stream, and smoking flourished o'er his head.

Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus?

Sith that the justice of your title to him Doth flourish the deceit.

And flourishes his blade in spite of me.

Bottoms of thread . . . which with a good needle, perhaps may be flourished into large works.

The Roman monarchy, in her highest flourish, never had the like.

The flourish of his sober youth Was the pride of naked truth.

He lards with flourishes his long harangue.

The neat characters and flourishes of a Bible curiously printed.

A flourish, trumpets! strike alarum, drums!

Flout

Phillida flouts me.

Three gaudy standards flout the pale blue sky.

Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout.

Who put your beauty to this flout and scorn.

Flow

The mountains flowed down at thy presence.

Those thousand decencies that daily flow From all her words and actions.

Virgil is sweet and flowingin his hexameters.

In that day . . . the hills shall flow with milk.

The exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl.

The imperial purple flowing in his train.

The river hath thrice flowed, no ebb between.

The feast of reason and the flow of soul.

Flower

The choice and flower of all things profitable the Psalms do more briefly contain.

The flower of the chivalry of all Spain.

A simple maiden in her flower Is worth a hundred coats of arms.

The flowers of grains, mixed with water, will make a sort of glue.

Their lusty and flowering age.

When flowered my youthful spring.

That beer did flower a little.

Observations which have flowered off.

Flowerer

Many hybrids are profuse and persistent flowerers.

Flown

Then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

Fluctuate

And fluctuate all the still perfume.

Fluency

The art of expressing with fluency and perspicuity.

Fluent

With most fluent utterance.

Fluent as the flight of a swallow is the sultan's letter.

Fluffy

The present Barnacle . . . had a youthful aspect, and the fluffiest little whisker, perhaps, that ever was seen.

Fluidity

It was this want of organization, this looseness and fluidity of the new movement, that made it penetrate through every class of society.

Flummery

Milk and flummery are very fit for children.

The flummery of modern criticism.

Flurry

Like a flurry of snow on the whistling wind.

The racket and flurry of London.

Flush

The flushing noise of many waters.

It flushes violently out of the cock.

In her cheek, distemper flushing glowed.

Flushing from one spray unto another.

Nor flush with shame the passing virgin's cheek.

Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow.

How faintly flushed. how phantom fair, Was Monte Rosa, hanging there!

Such things as can only feed his pride and flush his ambition.

In manner of a wave or flush.

The flush of angered shame.

With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May.

Lord Strut was not very flush in ready.

Fluster

His habit or flustering himself daily with claret.

The flstering, vainglorious Greeks.

Flute

The breathing flute's soft notes are heard around.

Knaves are men, That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.

The redwing flutes his o-ka-lee.

Flutist

No rag, no scrap, of all the beau, or wit, That once so fluttered, and that once so writ.

Long we fluttered on the wings of doubtful success.

His thoughts are very fluttering and wandering.

Flutter

Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli.

The chirp and flutter of some single bird

Flux

By the perpetual flux of the liquids, a great part of them is thrown out of the body.

Her image has escaped the flux of things, And that same infant beauty that she wore Is fixed upon her now forevermore.

Languages, like our bodies, are in a continual flux.

The flux nature of all things here.

He might fashionably and genteelly . . . have been dueled or fluxed into another world.

Fluxion

Less to be counted than the fluxions of sun dials.

Fluxional

The merely human,the temporary and fluxional.

Fly

Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Fly, envious Time, till thou run out thy race.

The dark waves murmured as the ships flew on.

Fly, ere evil intercept thy flight.

Whither shall I fly to escape their hands ?

The brave black flag I fly.

Sleep flies the wretch.

To fly the favors of so good a king.

A trifling fly, none of your great familiars.

Flyblown

Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled.

Flyboat

Captain George Weymouth made a voyage of discovery to the northwest with two flyboats.

Foam

He foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth.

foamy

Behold how high the foamy billows ride!

Focalize

Light is focalized in the eye, sound in the ear.

Foe

A man's foes shall be they of his own household.

A foe to received doctrines.

Foeman

And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.

Fog

Where wouldst thou fog to get a fee?

Fogger

A beggarly fogger.

Foggy

Your coarse, foggy, drowsy conceit.

Fogy

Notorious old bore; regular old fogy.

Foible

A disposition radically noble and generous, clouded and overshadowed by superficial foibles.

Foil

King Richard . . . caused the ensigns of Leopold to be pulled down and foiled under foot.

Whom he did all to pieces breake and foyle, In filthy durt, and left so in the loathely soyle.

And by mortal man at length am foiled.

Her long locks that foil the painter's power.

Nor e'er was fate so near a foil.

Blunt as the fencer's foils, which hit, but hurt not.

Isocrates contended with a foil against Demosthenes with a word.

As she a black silk cap on him began To set, for foil of his milk-white to serve.

Hector has a foil to set him off.

Foin

He came to the stake in a fair black gown furred and faced with foins.

He stroke, he soused, he foynd, he hewed, he lashed.

They lash, they foin, they pass, they strive to bore Their corselets, and the thinnest parts explore.

Foison

That from the seedness the bare fallow brings To teeming foison.

Foist

Lest negligence or partiality might admit or foist in abuses and corruption.

When a scripture has been corrupted . . . by a supposititious foisting of some words in.

Fold

As a vesture shalt thou fold them up.

A face folded in sorrow.

We will descend and fold him in our arms.

Nor fold my fault in cleanly coined excuses.

Mummies . . . shrouded in a number of folds of linen.

Folds are most common in the rocks of mountainous regions.

Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold.

Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold.

There shall be one fold and one shepherd.

The very whitest lamb in all my fold.

The star that bids the shepherd fold.

Folding

The lower foldings of the vest.

Foliation

The . . . foliation must be in relation to the stem.

Folk

The organization of each folk, as such, sprang mainly from war.

In winter's tedious nights, sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales.

Folkmote

To which folkmote they all with one consent Agreed to travel.

Follow

It waves me forth again; I'll follow it.

I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them.

Approve the best, and follow what I approve.

Follow peace with all men.

It is most agreeable to some men to follow their reason; and to others to follow their appetites.

We had rather follow the perfections of them whom we like not, than in defects resemble them whom we love.

He followed with his eyes the flitting shade.

O, had I but followed the arts!

O Antony! I have followed thee to this.

Folly

What folly 'tis to hazard life for ill.

[Achan] wrought folly in Israel.

When lovely woman stoops to folly.

It is called this man's or that man's “folly,” and name of the foolish builder is thus kept alive for long after years.

Foment

Which these soft fires . . . foment and warm.

But quench the choler you foment in vain.

Exciting and fomenting a religious rebellion.

He came in no conciliatory mood, and the foment was kept up.

Fomentation

Dishonest fomentation of your pride.

Fond

Grant I may never prove so fond To trust man on his oath or bond.

More fond on her than she upon her love.

You are as fond of grief as of your child.

A great traveler, and fond of telling his adventures.

Nor fix on fond abodes to circumscribe thy prayer.

The Tyrian hugs and fonds thee on her breast.

Fondling

Cyrus made no . . . amorous fondling To fan her pride, or melt her guardless heart.

Fondlings are in danger to be made fools.

Fondly

Make him speak fondly like a frantic man.

My heart, untraveled, fondly turns to thee.

Fondness

Fondness it were for any, being free, To covet fetters, though they golden be.

My heart had still some foolish fondness for thee.

Font

Bathing forever in the font of bliss.

That name was given me at the font.

Fontal

From the fontal light of ideas only can a man draw intellectual power.

Food

This may prove food to my displeasure.

In this moment there is life and food For future years.

Foodful

Bent by its foodful burden [the corn].

Fool

Extol not riches, then, the toil of fools.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.

Can they think me . . . their fool or jester?

Is this a time for fooling?

For, fooled with hope, men favor the deceit.

You are fooled, discarded, and shook off By him for whom these shames ye underwent.

Foolery

Folly in fools bears not so strong a note, As foolery in the wise, when wit doth dote.

That Pythagoras, Plato, or Orpheus, believed in any of these fooleries, it can not be suspected.

Foolish

I am a very foolish fond old man.

A foolish figure he must make.

Foolishness

The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness.

Foot

And now at foot Of heaven's ascent they lift their feet.

Answer directly upon the foot of dry reason.

As to his being on the foot of a servant.

What confederacy have you with the traitors Late footed in the kingdom?

If you are for a merry jaunt, I'll try, for once, who can foot it farthest.

Footbreadth

Not so much as a footbreadth.

Footed

Our king . . . is footed in this land already.

Footfall

Seraphim, whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor.

Foothot

Custance have they taken anon, foothot.

Footing

In ascent, every step gained is a footing and help to the next.

As soon as he had obtained a footing at court, the charms of his manner . . . made him a favorite.

Lived on a footing of equality with nobles.

Hark, I hear the footing of a man.

Footstep

How on the faltering footsteps of decay Youth presses.

Foozle

She foozles all along the course.

Foppery

Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter My sober house.

For

With fiery eyes sparkling for very wrath.

How to choose dogs for scent or speed.

Now, for so many glorious actions done, For peace at home, and for the public wealth, I mean to crown a bowl for Cæsar's health.

That which we, for our unworthiness, are afraid to crave, our prayer is, that God, for the worthiness of his Son, would, notwithstanding, vouchsafe to grant.

The oak for nothing ill, The osier good for twigs, the poplar for the mill.

It was young counsel for the persons, and violent counsel for the matters.

Shall I think the worls was made for one, And men are born for kings, as beasts for men, Not for protection, but to be devoured?

For he writes not for money, nor for praise.

We can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

It is for the general good of human society, and consequently of particular persons, to be true and just; and it is for men's health to be temperate.

Aristotle is for poetical justice.

We sailed from Peru for China and Japan.

And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

We take a falling meteor for a star.

If a man can be fully assured of anything for a truth, without having examined, what is there that he may not embrace for tru?

Most of our ingenious young men take up some cried-up English poet for their model.

But let her go for an ungrateful woman.

The writer will do what she please for all me.

God's desertion shall, for aught he knows, the next minute supervene.

For anything that legally appears to the contrary, it may be a contrivance to fright us.

For many miles about There 's scarce a bush.

Since, hired for life, thy servile muse sing.

To guide the sun's bright chariot for a day.

We'll have a bib, for spoiling of thy doublet.

As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

For me, my stormy voyage at an end, I to the port of death securely tend.

And for of long that way had walkéd none, The vault was hid with plants and bushes hoar.

And Heaven defend your good souls, that you think I will your serious and great business scant, For she with me.

Give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good; for his mercy endureth forever.

Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not.

Forage

He [the lion] from forage will incline to play.

One way a band select from forage drives A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine.

Mawhood completed his forage unmolested.

His most mighty father on a hill Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp Forage in blood of French nobility.

Foray

The huge Earl Doorm, . . . Bound on a foray, rolling eyes of prey.

He might foray our lands.

Forayer

They might not choose the lowland road, For the Merse forayers were abroad.

Forbear

Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?

Thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.

The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear.

Both bear and forbear.

But let me that plunder forbear.

The King In open battle or the tilting field Forbore his own advantage.

Forbearing one another in love.

Whenas my womb her burden would forbear.

Forbearance

He soon shall find Forbearance no acquittance ere day end.

Have a continent forbearance, till the speed of his rage goes slower.

Forbid

More than I have said . . . The leisure and enforcement of the time Forbids to dwell upon.

Have I not forbid her my house?

A blaze of glory that forbids the sight.

He shall live a man forbid.

Forbiddance

How hast thou yield to transgress The strict forbiddance.

Forbidden

I know no spells, use no forbidden arts.

Forblack

As any raven's feathers it shone forblack.

Forbruise

All forbrosed, both back and side.

Forby

To tell her if her child went ought forby.

To the intent that ships may pass along forby all the sides of the city without let.

Force

Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit.

To see the falls for force of the river Kent.

He was, in the full force of the words, a good man.

Which now they hold by force, and not by right.

Is Lucius general of the forces?

Thy tears are of no force to mollify This flinty man.

More huge in strength than wise in works he was.

Adam and first matron Eve Had ended now their orisons, and found Strength added from above, new hope to spring Out of despair.

To force their monarch and insult the court.

I should have forced thee soon wish other arms.

To force a spotless virgin's chastity.

It stuck so fast, so deeply buried lay That scarce the victor forced the steel away.

To force the tyrant from his seat by war.

Ethelbert ordered that none should be forced into religion.

What can the church force more?

High on a mounting wave my head I bore, Forcing my strength, and gathering to the shore.

For me, I force not argument a straw.

Forcing with gifts to win his wanton heart.

Your oath once broke, you force not to forswear.

I force not of such fooleries.

It is not sufficient to have attained the name and dignity of a shepherd, not forcing how.

Forceful

Against the steed he threw His forceful spear.

Forceless

These forceless flowers like sturdy trees support me.

Forcement

It was imposed upon us by constraint; And will you count such forcement treachery?

Forcible

How forcible are right words!

Sweet smells are most forcible in dry substances, when broken.

But I have reasons strong and forcible.

That punishment which hath been sometimes forcible to bridle sin.

He is at once elegant and sublime, forcible and ornamented.

Like mingled streams, more forcible when joined.

In embraces of King James . . . forcible and unjust.

Forcible-feeble

He [Prof. Ayton] would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school.

Ford

He swam the Esk river where ford there was none.

With water of the ford Or of the clouds.

Permit my ghost to pass the Stygan ford.

His last section, which is no deep one, remains only to be forted.

Fordless

A deep and fordless river.

Fordo

This is the night That either makes me or fordoes me quite.

All with weary task fordone.

Fore

The eyes, fore duteous, now converted are.

The free will of the subject is preserved, while it is directed by the fore purpose of the state.

I have . . . paid More pious debts to heaven, than in all The fore end of my time.

Sailed on smooth seas, by fore winds borne.

Forebode

His heart forebodes a mystery.

Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Cæsar's death.

I have a sort of foreboding about him.

If I forebode aright.

Forecast

He shall forecast his devices against the strongholds.

It is wisdom to consider the end of things before we embark, and to forecast consequences.

If it happen as I did forecast.

He makes this difference to arise from the forecast and predetermination of the gods themselves.

His calm, deliberate forecast better fitted him for the council than the camp.

Foreclose

The embargo with Spain foreclosed this trade.

Foredeem

Laugh at your misery, as foredeeming you An idle meteor.

Which [maid] could guess and foredeem of things past, present, and to come.

Foredispose

King James had by promise foredisposed the place on the Bishop of Meath.

Foredoom

Thou art foredoomed to view the Stygian state.

Forefather

Respecting your forefathers, you would have been taught to respect yourselves.

Forefeel

As when, with unwieldy waves, the great sea forefeels winds.

Forefend

God forefend it should ever be recorded in our history.

It would be a far better work . . . to forefend the cruelty.

Forefront

Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle.

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, standing in the forefront for all time, the masters of those who know.

Foregleam

The foregleams of wisdom.

Forego

Stay at the third cup, or forego the place.

All my patrimony,, If need be, I am ready to forego.

Thy lovers must their promised heaven forego.

[He] never forewent an opportunity of honest profit.

Pleasing remembrance of a thought foregone.

For which the very mother's face forewent The mother's special patience.

Forehand

And, but for ceremony, such a wretch . . . Had the forehand and vantage of a king.

And so extenuate the forehand sin.

Forehanded

A substantial, true-bred beast, bravely forehanded.

Forehead

To look with forehead bold and big enough Upon the power and puissance of the king.

Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.

So rich advantage of a promised glory As smiles upon the forehead of this action.

Foreign

Hail, foreign wonder! Whom certain these rough shades did never breed.

This design is not foreign from some people's thoughts.

Kept him a foreign man still; which so grieved him, That he ran mad and died.

Foreigner

Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts.

Nor could the majesty of the English crown appear in a greater luster, either to foreigners or subjects.

Foreignism

It is a pity to see the technicalities of the so-called liberal professions distigured by foreignisms.

Foreignness

Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring to set me right.

A foreignness of complexion.

Foreknow

Who would the miseries of man foreknow?

Foreknowingly

He who . . . foreknowingly loses his life.

Foreknowledge

If I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault.

Forelay

These grounds being forelaid and understood.

Forelend

As if that life to losse they had forelent.

Forelie

Which forelay Athwart her snowy breast.

Forelock

Time is painted with a lock before and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for when it is once past, there is no recalling it.

On occasion's forelock watchful wait.

Foremost

THat struck the foremost man of all this world.

Forenenst

The land forenenst the Greekish shore.

Forepossessed

Not extremely forepossessed with prejudice.

Forerun

These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.

Forerunner

Whither the forerunner in for us entered, even Jesus.

My elder brothers, my forerunners, came.

Foresay

Her danger nigh that sudden change foresaid.

Foresee

A prudent man foreseeth the evil.

Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life.

Foreseen

One manner of meat is most sure to every complexion, foreseen that it be alway most commonly in conformity of qualities, with the person that eateth.

Foreshorten

Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie Foreshortened in the tract of time.

Foreshow

Your looks foreshow You have a gentle heart.

Next, like Aurora, Spenser rose, Whose purple blush the day foreshows.

Foresight

This seems an unseasonable foresight.

A random expense, without plan or foresight.

Foreskirt

Honor's train Is longer than his foreskirt.

Foreslow

No stream, no wood, no mountain could foreslow Their hasty pace.

Forespeak

My mother was half a witch; never anything that she forespake but came to pass.

Forestall

What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?

An ugly serpent which forestalled their way.

But evermore those damsels did forestall Their furious encounter.

To be forestalled ere we come to fall.

Habit is a forestalled and obstinate judge.

All the better; may This night forestall him of the coming day!

Foretell

Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold.

Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster of his character.

Forethink

The soul of every man Prophetically doth forethink thy fall.

Forethought

A sphere that will demand from him forethought, courage, and wisdom.

Foretoken

Whilst strange prodigious signs foretoken blood.

Foreward

My foreward shall be drawn out all in length, Consisting equally of horse and foot.

Forewarn

We were forewarned of your coming.

Forewit

Nor that the forewits, that would draw the rest unto their liking, always like the best.

Let this forewit guide thy thought.

Foreworn

Old foreworn stories almost forgotten.

Forfeit

To seek arms upon people and country that never did us any forfeit.

Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal Remit thy other forfeits.

Country dances and forfeits shortened the rest of the day.

Thy wealth being forfeit to the state.

To tread the forfeit paradise.

[They] had forfeited their property by their crimes.

Undone and forfeited to cares forever!

I will have the heart of him if he forfeit.

Once more I will renew His lapsèd powers, though forfeite.

Forfeitable

For the future, uses shall be subject to the statutes of mortmain, and forfeitable, like the lands themselves.

Forfeiture

Under pain of foreiture of the said goods.

What should I gain By the exaction of the forfeiture?

Forfend

Which peril heaven forefend!

Forfete

And all this suffered our Lord Jesus Christ that never forfeted.

Forgather

Within that circle he forgathered with many a fool.

Forge

In the quick forge and working house of thought.

In the greater bodies the forge was easy.

Mars's armor forged for proof eterne.

Those names that the schools forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use.

Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves.

That paltry story is untrue, And forged to cheat such gulls as you.

Forged certificates of his . . . moral character.

And off she [a ship] forged without a shock.

Forgery

Useless the forgery Of brazen shield and spear.

These are the forgeries of jealously.

The writings going under the name of Aristobulus were a forgery of the second century.

Forget

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.

Let my right hand forget her cunning.

Hath thy knee forget to bow?

Can a woman forget her sucking child? . . . Yes, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.

Forgetful

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers.

Forgetfulness

A sweet forgetfulness of human care.

Forging

There are very few yards in the world at which such forgings could be turned out.

Forgive

To them that list the world's gay shows I leave, And to great ones such folly do forgive.

And their sins should be forgiven them.

He forgive injures so readily that he might be said to invite them.

Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.

I as free forgive you, as I would be fforgiven.

Forgiveness

To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses.

In whom we have . . . the forgiveness of sin.

If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.

Forgo

For sith [since] I shall forgoon my liberty At your request.

And four [days] since Florimell the court forwent.

Fork

Let it fall . . . though the fork invade The region of my heart.

A thunderbolt with three forks.

The corn beginneth to fork.

Forking the sheaves on the high-laden cart.

Forked

A serpent seen, with forked tongue.

Forlay

An ambushed thief forlays a traveler.

Forlore

The beasts their caves, the birds their nests forlore.

Forlorn

Of fortune and of hope at once forlorn.

Some say that ravens foster forlorn children.

For here forlorn and lost I tread.

The condition of the besieged in the mean time was forlorn in the extreme.

She cherished the forlorn hope that he was still living.

Forced to live in Scotland a forlorn.

Our forlorn of horse marched within a mile of the enemy.

Form

The form of his visage was changed.

And woven close close, both matter, form, and style.

Those whom form of laws Condemned to die.

Though well we may not pass upon his life Without the form of justice.

The earth was without form and void.

He hath no form nor comeliness.

As in a form sitteth a weary hare.

God formed man of the dust of the ground.

The thought that labors in my forming brain.

'T is education forms the common mind.

Thus formed for speed, he challenges the wind.

The diplomatic politicians . . . who formed by far the majority.

The melancholy hare is formed in brakes and briers.

Formal

Of [the sounds represented by] letters, the material part is breath and voice; the formal is constituted by the motion and figure of the organs of speech.

His obscure funeral . . . No noble rite nor formal ostentation.

A cold-looking, formal garden, cut into angles and rhomboids.

She took off the formal cap that confined her hair.

Still in constraint your suffering sex remains, Or bound in formal or in real chains.

To make of him a formal man again.

Formalism

Official formalism.

Formalist

As far a formalist from wisdom sits, In judging eyes, as libertines from wits.

Formality

Such [books] as are mere pieces of formality, so that if you look on them, you look though them.

Nor was his attendance on divine offices a matter of formality and custom, but of conscience.

He was installed with all the usual formalities.

The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover.

It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while it aims to keep fast the outward formality.

The material part of the evil came from our father upon us, but the formality of it, the sting and the curse, is only by ourselves.

The formality of the vow lies in the promise made to God.

Formally

That which formally makes this [charity] a Christian grace, is the spring from which it flows.

You and your followers do stand formally divided against the authorized guides of the church and rest of the people.

Format

The older manuscripts had been written in a much larger format than that found convenient for university work.

One might, indeed, protest that the format is a little too luxurious.

Formative

The meanest plant can not be raised without seed, by any formative residing in the soil.

Former

For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age.

The latter and former rain.

A bad author deserves better usage than a bad critic; a man may be the former merely through the misfortune of an ill judgment; but he can not be latter without both that and an ill temper.

Formicate

An open space which formicated with peasantry.

Formidable

They seemed to fear the formodable sight.

I swell my preface into a volume, and make it formidable, when you see so many pages behind.

Forold

A bear's skin, coal-black, forold.

Forray

For they that morn had forrayed all the land.

Forsake

If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments.

If you forsake the offer of their love.

Forsooth

A fit man, forsooth, to govern a realm!

Our old English word forsooth has been changed for the French madam.

The captain of the “Charles” had forsoothed her, though he knew her well enough and she him.

You sip so like a forsooth of the city.

Forspent

A gentleman almost forspent with speed.

Forswear

I . . . do forswear her.

Like innocence, and as serenely bold As truth, how loudly he forswears thy gold!

Fort

Detached works, depending solely on their own strength, belong to the class of works termed forts.

Forte

The construction of a fable seems by no means the forte of our modern poetical writers.

Forth

Lucas was Paul's companion, at the leastway from the sixteenth of the Acts forth.

From this time forth, I never will speak word.

I repeated the Ave Maria; the inquisitor bad me say forth; I said I was taught no more.

When winter past, and summer scarce begun, Invites them forth to labor in the sun.

I have no mind of feasting forth to-night.

Some forth their cabins peep.

Forthink

That me forthinketh, quod this January.

Forthright

They were Night and Day, and Day and Night, Piligrims wight with steps forthright.

Here's a maze trod, indeed, Through forthrights and meanders!

Forthrightness

Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase.

Forthwith

Immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales; and he received sight forthwith.

Fortify

Timidity was fortified by pride.

Pride came to the aid of fancy, and both combined to fortify his resolution.

Fortition

No mode of election operating in the spirit of fortition or rotation can be generally good.

Fortitude

The fortitude of the place is best known to you.

Extolling patience as the truest fortitude.

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

Fortread

In hell shall they be all fortroden of devils.

Fortuitous

It was from causes seemingly fortuitous . . . that all the mighty effects of the Reformation flowed.

So as to throw a glancing and fortuitous light upon the whole.

Fortune

'T is more by fortune, lady, than by merit.

O Fortune, Fortune, all men call thee fickle.

You, who men's fortunes in their faces read.

Our equal crimes shall equal fortune give.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

His father dying, he was driven to seek his fortune.

It fortuned the same night that a Christian, serving a Turk in the camp, secretely gave the watchmen warning.

Forum

He [Lord Camden] was . . . more eminent in the senate than in the forum.

Forward

Tell us a tale anon, as forward is.

Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.

Nor do we find him forward to be sounded.

I have known men disagreeably forward from their shyness.

The most forward bud Is eaten by the canker ere it blow.

Forwardness

In France it is usual to bring children into company, and cherish in them, from their infancy, a kind of forwardness and assurance.

He had such a dexterous proclivity, as his teachers were fain to restrain his forwardness.

Forworn

A silly man, in simple weeds forworn.

Forwrap

All mote be said and nought excused, nor hid, nor forwrapped.

Fossick

A man who has fossicked in nature's byways.

Fossilize

Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head Are apt to fossilize her girlish mirth.

Fossilized

A fossilized sample of confused provincialism.

Foster

Some say that ravens foster forlorn children.

Fother

Of dung full many a fother.

Foul

My face is foul with weeping.

Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?

Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares.

So foul a sky clears not without a storm.

Foul-mouthed

So foul-mouthed a witness never appeared in any cause.

Foully

I foully wronged him; do forgive me, do.

Found

I had else been perfect, Whole as the marble, founded as the rock.

A man that all his time Hath founded his good fortunes on your love.

It fell not, for it was founded on a rock.

There they shall found Their government, and their great senate choose.

Foundation

Behold, I lay in Zion, for a foundation, a stone . . . a precious corner stone, a sure foundation.

The foundation of a free common wealth.

He was entered on the foundation of Westminster.

Against the canon laws of our foundation.

Founder

For which his horse fearé gan to turn, And leep aside, and foundrede as he leep.

Fountain

Judea, the fountain of the gospel.

Author of all being, Fountain of light, thyself invisible.

Fountainless

Barren desert, fountainless and dry.

Four-in-hand

As quaint a four-in-hand As you shall see.

Fourfold

He shall restore the lamb fourfold.

Foutra

A foutra for the world and wordlings base!

Fowl

Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air.

Behold the fowls of the air; for they sow not.

Like a flight of fowl Scattered by winds and high tempestuous gusts.

Such persons as may lawfully hunt, fish, or fowl.

Fox

Subtle as the fox for prey.

We call a crafty and cruel man a fox.

Thou diest on point of fox.

I drank . . . so much wine that I was almost foxed.

Foxglove

Pan through the pastures oftentimes hath run To pluck the speckled foxgloves from their stem.

Foxy

Modred's narrow, foxy face.

Foy

He did at the Dog give me, and some other friends of his, his foy, he being to set sail to-day.

Foziness

[The Whigs'] foziness can no longer be concealed.

Fraction

Neither can the natural body of Christ be subject to any fraction or breaking up.

Some niggard fractions of an hour.

Fragile

The state of ivy is tough, and not fragile.

Fragility

An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to it [beauty].

The fragility and youthful folly of Qu. Fabius.

Fragment

Gather up the fragments that remain.

Fragrance

Eve separate he spies, Veiled in a cloud of fragrance.

The goblet crowned, Breathed aromatic fragrancies around.

Fragrant

Fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers.

frail

That I may know how frail I am.

An old bent man, worn and frail.

Deep indignation and compassion frail.

Man is frail, and prone to evil.

frailty

God knows our frailty, [and] pities our weakness.

Fraken

A few fraknes in his face.

Frame

How many excellent reasonings are framed in the mind of a man of wisdom and study in a length of years.

And frame my face to all occasions.

We may in some measure frame our minds for the reception of happiness.

The human mind is framed to be influenced.

Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds.

That on a staff his feeble steps did frame.

The bauty of this sinful dame Made many princes thither frame.

These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty! thine this universal frame.

Some bloody passion shakes your very frame.

No frames could be strong enough to endure it.

She that hath a heart of that fine frame To pay this debt of love but to a brother.

Put your discourse into some frame.

John the bastard Whose spirits toil in frame of villainies.

Framework

A staunch and solid piece of framework.

Frampel

Is Pompey grown so malapert, so frampel?

Franchise

Election by universal suffrage, as modified by the Constitution, is the one crowning franchise of the American people.

Churches and mobasteries in Spain are franchises for criminals.

frank

Frank of civilities that cost them nothing.

I have said so much, that, if I had not a frank, I must burn my letter and begin again.

Franklin

The franklin, a small landholder of those days.

Frankly

Very frankly he confessed his treasons.

Frankpledge

The servants of the crown were not, as now, bound in frankpledge for each other.

Frantic

Die, frantic wretch, for this accursed deed!

Torrents of frantic abuse.

Frapler

Unpolished, a frapler, and base.

Fraternal

An abhorred, a cursed, a fraternal war.

Fraternal love and friendship.

Fraternity

With what terms of respect knaves and sots will speak of their own fraternity!

Fraternization

I hope that no French fraternization . . . could so change the hearts of Englishmen.

Fraternize

Correspondence for fraternizing the two nations.

Fraud

If success a lover's toil attends, Few ask, if fraud or force attained his ends.

To draw the proud King Ahab into fraud.

Fraudulent

He, with serpent tongue, . . . His fraudulent temptation thus began.

Fraught

A vessel of our country richly fraught.

A discourse fraught with all the commending excellences of speech.

Enterprises fraught with world-wide benefits.

Upon the tumbling billows fraughted ride The armed ships.

fray

Who began this bloody fray?

What frays ye, that were wont to comfort me affrayed?

The charge of my most curious and costly ingredients frayed, I shall acknowledge myself amply satisfied.

We can show the marks he made When 'gainst the oak his antlers frayed.

A suit of frayed magnificience.

Frazzle

Her hair was of a reddish gray color, and its frazzled and tangled condition suggested that the woman had recently passed through a period of extreme excitement.

My fingers are all scratched to frazzles.

Gordon had sent word to Lee that he “had fought his corps to a frazzle.”

Freak

Freaked with many a mingled hue.

She is restless and peevish, and sometimes in a freak will instantly change her habitation.

Freakish

It may be a question whether the wife or the woman was the more freakish of the two.

Freakish when well, and fretful when she's sick.

Freck

The painted windows, frecking gloom with glow.

Freckled

The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover.

Free

That which has the power, or not the power, to operate, is that alone which is or is not free.

Set an unhappy prisoner free.

Not free, what proof could they have given sincere Of true allegiance, constant faith, or love.

My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.

He was free only with a few.

The critics have been very free in their censures.

A man may live a free life as to wine or women.

Princes declaring themselves free from the obligations of their treaties.

He therefore makes all birds, of every sect, Free of his farm.

Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free For me as for you?

I as free forgive you As I would be forgiven.

Our land is from the rage of tigers freed.

Arise, . . . free thy people from their yoke.

This master key Frees every lock, and leads us to his person.

Free will

To come thus was I not constrained, but did On my free will.

Freebooting

Your freebooting acquaintance.

Freedom

Made captive, yet deserving freedom more.

Your charter and your caty's freedom.

I emboldened spake and freedom used.

Freely

Of every tree of the garden thou mayst freely eat.

Freely ye have received, freely give.

Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.

Freely we serve Because we freely love.

Freeman

Both having been made freemen on the same day.

Freethinker

Atheist is an old-fashioned word: I'm a freethinker, child.

Freeze

A faint, cold fear runs through my veins, That almost freezes up the heat of life.

A railroad which had a London connection must not be allowed to freeze out one that had no such connection.

It is sometimes a long time before a player who is frozen out can get into a game again.

Frenzied

The people frenzied by centuries of oppression.

Up starting with a frenzied look.

Frenzy

All else is towering frenzy and distraction.

The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling.

They thought that some frenzy distemper had got into his head.

Frequency

The reasons that moved her to remove were, because Rome was a place of riot and luxury, her soul being almost stifled with, the frequencies of ladies' visits.

Frequent

He has been loud and frequent in declaring himself hearty for the government.

'T is Cæsar's will to have a frequent senate.

'T is frequent in the city he hath subdued The Catti and the Daci.

He frequented the court of Augustus.

With their sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite.

Fresh

A fresh pleasure in every fresh posture of the limbs.

He shall drink naught but brine; for I'll not show him Where the quick freshes are.

Freshet

Cracked the sky, as ice in rivers When the freshet is at highest.

Freshly

Looks he as freshly as he did?

Freshman

He drank his glass and cracked his joke, And freshmen wondered as he spoke.

Freshness

The Scots had the advantage both for number and freshness of men.

And breathe the freshness of the open air.

Her cheeks their freshness lose and wonted grace.

Fret

The sow frete the child right in the cradle.

With many a curve my banks I fret.

By starts His fretted fortunes give him hope and fear.

Fret not thyself because of evil doers.

Many wheals arose, and fretted one into another with great excoriation.

He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.

Yet then did Dennis rave in furious fret.

Whose skirt with gold was fretted all about.

Yon gray lines, That fret the clouds, are messengers of day.

His lady's cabinet is a adorned on the fret, ceiling, and chimney-piece with . . . carving.

A fret of gold she had next her hair.

Fretwork

Banqueting on the turf in the fretwork of shade and sunshine.

Fribble

A pert fribble of a peer.

The fools that are fribbling round about you.

Friend

Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.

A friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

Friend, how camest thou in hither?

America was first visited by Friends in 1656.

Fortune friends the bold.

Friendly

In friendly relations with his moderate opponents.

On the first friendly bank he throws him down.

In whom all graces that can perfect beauty Are friendly met.

These were speedily routed by the friendlies, who attacked the small force before them in fine style.

Friendship

There is little friendship in the world.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

Preferred by friendship, and not chosen by sufficiency.

Some friendship will it [a hovel] lend you gainst the tempest.

Those colors . . . have a friendship with each other.

Frieze

Cornice or frieze with bossy sculptures graven.

Fright

Nor exile or danger can fright a brave spirit.

Frighten

More frightened than hurt.

Frightful

See how the frightful herds run from the wood.

Frigidity

Ice is water congealed by the frigidity of the air.

Fringe

The confines of grace and the fringes of repentance.

Precipices fringed with grass.

Frippery

Fond of gauze and French frippery.

The gauzy frippery of a French translation.

Frisk

The frisking satyrs on the summits danced.

Frisky

He is too frisky for an old man.

Fritter

And cut whole giants into fritters.

Break all nerves, and fritter all their sense.

Frivolous

His personal tastes were low and frivolous.

Friz

With her hair frizzed short up to her ears.

He [Dr. Johnson], who saw in his glass how his wig became his face and head, might easily infer that a similar fullbottomed, well-curled friz of words would be no less becoming to his thoughts.

Frizzle

Drain and heat it [shaved smoked beef] in one tablespoonful of hot butter, to curl or frizzle it.

Frolic

The frolic wind that breathes the spring.

The gay, the frolic, and the loud.

He would be at his frolic once again.

Hither, come hither, and frolic and play.

Frolicsome

Old England, who takes a frolicsome brain fever once every two or three years, for the benefit of her doctors.

From

Experience from the time past to the time present.

The song began from Jove.

From high Mæonia's rocky shores I came.

If the wind blow any way from shore.

Sudden partings such as press The life from out young hearts.

Fromward

Towards or fromwards the zenith.

Front

Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's tongue.

Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front.

His front yet threatens, and his frowns command.

With smiling fronts encountering.

The inhabitants showed a bold front.

Had he his hurts before? Ay, on the front.

The very head and front of my offending.

Like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears s front.

You four shall front them in the narrow lane.

[Enid] daily fronted him In some fresh splendor.

And then suddenly front the changed reality.

Yonder walls, that pertly front your town.

Frontier

Palisadoes, frontiers, parapets.

Frontlet

They shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

What makes that frontlet on? Methinks you are too much of late i' the frown.

Frore

The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.

Frorn

Well nigh frorn I feel.

Frory

The foaming steed with frory bit to steer.

Frost

The third bay comes a frost, a killing frost.

He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.

It was of those moments of intense feeling when the frost of the Scottish people melts like a snow wreath.

The brig and the ice round her are covered by a strange black obscurity: it is the frost smoke of arctic winters.

While with a hoary light she frosts the ground.

Frostbite

My wife up and with Mrs. Pen to walk in the fields to frostbite themselves.

Frosted

Frosted work is introduced as a foil or contrast to burnished work.

Froth

It was a long speech, but all froth.

He . . . froths treason at his mouth.

Is your spleen frothed out, or have ye more?

Frounce

Not tricked and frounced, as she was wont.

The Commons frounced and stormed.

Froward

A froward man soweth strife.

A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation.

Frown

The frowning wrinkle of her brow.

The sky doth frown and lower upon our army.

His front yet threatens, and his frowns command.

Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are.

Frowny

Her frowny mother's ragged shoulder.

Frowzy

The frowzy soldiers' wives hanging out clothes.

Frozen

They warmed their frozen feet.

Be not ever frozen, coy.

Fructification

The prevalent fructification of plants.

Fructuary

Kings are not proprietors nor fructuaries.

Fructuous

Nothing fructuous or profitable.

Frugal

I oft admire How Nature, wise and frugal, could commit Such disproportions.

Frugality

Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits.

Fruit

Six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof.

King Edward's fruit, true heir to the English crown.

The fruit of rashness.

What I obtained was the fruit of no bargain.

They shall eat the fruit of their doings.

The fruits of this education became visible.

Fruitage

The trees . . . ambrosial fruitage bear.

Fruitful

Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.

[Nature] By disburdening grows More fruitful.

The great fruitfulness of the poet's fancy.

Fruition

Where I may have fruition of her love.

Fruitless

They in mutual accusation spent The fruitless hours.

Frumpish

Our Bell . . . looked very frumpish.

Frush

I like thine armor well; I'll frush it and unlock the rivets all.

Frustrate

Shall the adversary thus obtain His end and frustrate thine ?

Frutage

The cornices consist of frutages and festoons.

Fry

With crackling flames a caldron fries.

The frothy billows fry.

To keep the oil from frying in the stomach.

What kindling motions in their breasts do fry.

The fry of children young.

To sever . . . the good fish from the other fry.

We have burned two frigates, and a hundred and twenty small fry.

Fub

I have been fubbed off, and fubbed off, and fabbed off, from this day to that day.

Fubby

A fubsy, good-humored, silly . . . old maid.

Fuddle

I am too fuddled to take care to observe your orders.

Fudge

Fudged up into such a smirkish liveliness.

That last “suppose” is fudged in.

Fuel

Never, alas I the dreadful name, That fuels the infernal flame.

Well watered and well fueled.

Fugacious

Much of its possessions is so hid, so fugacious, and of so uncertain purchase.

Fugitive

The fugitive Parthians follow.

Can a fugitive daughter enjoy herself while her parents are in tear?

A libellous pamphlet of a fugitive physician.

The me more tender and fugitive parts, the leaves . . . of vegatables.

Or Catch that airy fugitive called wit.

Fugle

Wooden arms with elbow joints jerking and fugling in the air.

Fugue

All parts of the scheme are eternally chasing each other, like the parts of a fugue.

Fulfill

Suffer thou that the children be fulfilled first, for it is not good to take the bread of children and give to hounds.

He will, fulfill the desire of them fear him.

Here Nature seems fulfilled in all her ends.

Servants must their masters' minds fulfill.

Fulgent

Other Thracians . . . fulgent morions wore.

Fulguration

A phenomenon called, by the old chemists, fulguration.

Full

Had the throne been full, their meeting would not have been regular.

It came to pass, at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed.

The man commands Like a full soldier.

I can not Request a fuller satisfaction Than you have freely granted.

I am full of the burnt offerings of rams.

Reading maketh a full man.

Every one is full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak constitutions.

The heart is so full that a drop overfills it.

Ilia, the fair, . . . full of Mars.

The swan's-down feather, That stands upon the swell at full of tide.

The pawn I proffer shall be full as good.

The diapason closing full in man.

Full in the center of the sacred wood.

Full-formed

The full-formed maids of Afric.

Fullness

“In thy presence is fullness of joy.”

Fulminate

They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees.

Fulmination

The fulminations from the Vatican were turned into ridicule.

Fulmine

She fulmined out her scorn of laws Salique.

Fulsome

His lean, pale, hoar, and withered corpse grew fulsome, fair, and fresh.

And lest the fulsome artifice should fail Themselves will hide its coarseness with a veil.

Fum

Follow me, and fum as you go.

Fumage

Fumage, or fuage, vulgarly called smoke farthings.

Fumble

Adams now began to fumble in his pockets.

My understanding flutters and my memory fumbles.

Alas! how he fumbles about the domains.

I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers.

Fume

The fumes of new shorn hay.

The fumes of undigested wine.

A show of fumes and fancies.

To smother him with fumes and eulogies.

Where the golden altar fumed.

Silenus lay, Whose constant cups lay fuming to his brain.

Keep his brain fuming.

Their parts are kept from fuming away by their fixity.

He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.

While her mother did fret, and her father did fume.

She fumed the temple with an odorous flame.

They demi-deify and fume him so.

The heat will fume away most of the scent.

How vicious hearts fume frenzy to the brain!

Fumer

Embroiderers, feather makers, fumers.

Fumous

Garlic, onions, mustard, and such-like fumous things.

Funambulatory

This funambulatory track.

Function

As the mind opens, and its functions spread.

Tradesmen . . . going about their functions.

The malady which made him incapable of performing his regal functions.

Every solemn ‘function' performed with the requirements of the liturgy.

This function, which is our chief social event.

Functionally

The organ is said to be functionally disordered.

Fund

An inexhaustible fund of stories.

Fundamental

The fundamental reasons of this war.

Some fundamental antithesis in nature.

Funeral

King James his funerals were performed very solemnly in the collegiate church at Westminster.

Mr. Giles Lawrence preached his funerals.

Funereal

What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.

Funest

A forerunner of something very funest.

Funk

To funk right out o' political strife.

Fur

Wrapped up in my furs.

Furbish

Furbish new the name of John a Gaunt.

Furnace

He furnaces The thick sighs from him.

Furnish

That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

Ye are they . . . that furnish the drink offering unto that number.

His writings and his life furnish abundant proofs that he was not a man of strong sense.

Furniture

The form and all the furniture of the earth.

The thoughts which make the furniture of their minds.

Furrow

Thou canst help time to furrow me with age.

Fair cheeks were furrowed with hot tears.

Further

Carries us, I know not how much further, into familiar company.

They sdvanced us far as Eleusis and Thria; but no further.

This binds thee, then, to further my design.

I should nothing further the weal public.

Furtherance

I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furthersnce and joy of faith.

Built of furtherance and pursuing, Not of spent deeds, but of doing.

Furthersome

You will not find it furthersome.

Furtive

A hasty and furtive ceremony.

Fury

Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies.

Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired.

I do oppose my patience to his fury.

The Furies, they said, are attendants on justice, and if the sun in heaven should transgress his path would punish him.

Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.

Fuscous

Sad and fuscous colors, as black or brown, or deep purple and the like.

Fuse

Whose fancy fuses old and new.

Fusion

The universal fusion of races, languages, and customs . . . had produced a corresponding fusion of creeds.

Fuss

Zealously, assiduously, and with a minimum of fuss or noise

I am a fuss and I don't deny it.

Fussy

Not at all fussy about his personal appearance.

Fustian

Claudius . . . has run his description into the most wretched fustian.

Fustigation

This satire, composed of actual fustigation.

Fusty

A melancholy, fusty humor.

futharc

The letters are called Runes and the alphabet bears the name Futhorc from the first six letters.

Futile

Talkers and futile persons.

His reasoning . . . was singularly futile.

Futility

The futility of this mode of philosophizing.

Futurable

Not only to things future, but futurable.

Futurition

Nothing . . . can have this imagined futurition, but as it is decreed.

Futurity

All futurities are naked before the All-seeing Eye.

Fyrd

The national fyrd or militia.