"Fey" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... battle raged anew, with all the odds against the small handful of French, who knew they were doomed, and fought as though they were "fey."[13] ...
— Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race • Maud Isabel Ebbutt
... I was "fey" that night, as the Scotch say, when an unaccountable lightness of mood precedes a heavy sorrow, which it so often does, as well as the more usual mood, the presage of gloom. I felt that I had the power to put aside all ills—to grapple with my fate, and compel back my lost happiness. Truly my ...
— Miriam Monfort - A Novel • Catherine A. Warfield
... gayety of heart and then ride on his way, singing some Cavalier song, till Grimond, who kept away from his master those days and rode among the troopers, would shake his head, and say to himself, "God grant he be not fey" (possessed). Dundee would continue in high spirits till the evening shadows began to fall, and then the other shadow would lengthen across his soul. The night before he met his wife he spent in Glamis Castle, and the grim, austere beauty ...
— Graham of Claverhouse • Ian Maclaren
... urging James to attack England. He saw, and wrote to the King of Denmark, that, if France were down, the turn of Scotland to fall would follow. In March 1513, an English diplomatist, West, found James in a wild mood, distraught "like a fey man." ...
— A Short History of Scotland • Andrew Lang
... weird in the dale of the Bowstring— Thorarin the Strong, 'neath the slayer Lay slain by the might of my weapon. And loss of their lives men abided When Loft fell, and Alf fell, and Skofti. They were four, yonder kinsmen, and fated— They were fey—and ...
— The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald • Unknown
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