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More "Fey" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of thanks to the chair. At 12.30 a foam of white faces broke over the roofs of the lofty buildings around, protected by stone balustrades. At the same moment a shout of "They are coming" was heard, followed fey a thunderous roar of cheering. Mr. Balfour slowly emerged from York Road, amid immense acclamation, his carriage, piloted by the Corporation, moving inch by inch through the solid mass with inconceivable difficulty. Over and over again the line of vehicles ...
— Ireland as It Is - And as It Would be Under Home Rule • Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
... were going rather badly at Portlossie and Scaurnose; and the factor was the devil of them. Those who had known him longest said he must be fey, that is doomed, so strangely altered was his behaviour. Others said he took more counsel with his bottle than had been his wont, and got no good from it. Almost all the fishers found him surly, and upon some he broke out ...
— The Marquis of Lossie • George MacDonald
... a day when Jock Mackay Came home from the mine with a dancing eye And a laugh in his heart, and he cried out, "Jean, 'Tis the grandest day that the warl' has seen! The lads are a' cheerin' and rinnin' fey, For the Government's gien ...
— Punch, Volume 156, 26 March 1919 • Various
... cried, "Oh! what a joke! with but a single stroke I have ground him small. E-ish-so-oolth that gentle little fey, will dine on mince-meat." ...
— Indian Legends of Vancouver Island • Alfred Carmichael
... and well work the Norns.[*] Still, Eric, of a sudden I grow fey: for it comes upon me that I shall not die to-night, but that, nevertheless, I shall die with thy arms about me, and at thy side. There, I see it on the snow! I lie by thee, sleeping, and one comes with hands outstretched and sleep falls from them like a mist—by Freya, it is Swanhild's self! ...
— Eric Brighteyes • H. Rider Haggard
... thought to have been "fey"—namely, in high spirits—recklessly hastening to a violent death; for as he rode along the crags close above Kinghorn, his horse suddenly stumbled, and he was thrown over its head to the bottom of a frightful ...
— Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II • Charlotte Mary Yonge
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