"Fey" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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
... 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
... 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 ...
— Miriam Monfort - A Novel • Catherine A. Warfield
... 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 |
