"Fice" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in yer fice," growled Ole Fred. Then, turning to Louis, he became maudlinly soothing. "Look 'ere, mate, no young lady likes to hear her father spoke of rough—even if he ain't her father, as the saying goes. I do' know what the rah's abaht, but y' know, ole chap, no man should make sin—sin—sinuation ...
— Captivity • M. Leonora Eyles
... A fice for your small poetic ravers, Your Hunts, your Tennysons, your Milnes, and these! Shall they compete with him who wrote "Maltravers," Prologue to "Alice or the Mysteries?" No! Even now, my glance prophetic sees My own high brow girt with the bays about. What ho, within there, ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton
... allow you far too little time to examine the castle or the ruin, or they leave you planted in front of it for periods that outlast curiosity. They are perverse, capricious, ex- asperating. It was a question of our having but an hour or two at Loches, and we could ill afford to sacri- fice to accidents. One of the accidents, however, was that the rain stopped before we got there, leaving be- hind it a moist mildness of temperature and a cool and lowering sky, which were in perfect agreement with the gray old ...
— A Little Tour in France • Henry James
... nombre, que j'ai trouv galement mauvaises. Cet examen ne m'a point/ t infructueux. Je hassais ma patrie. Toutes les impertinences des peuples divers, parmi lesquels j'ai vcu,/ m'ont rconcili avec elle. Quand je n'aurais tir d'autre bnfice de mes voyages que celui-l, je n'en re/gretterais ni les frais, ni les fatigues./ Le Cosmopolite./ London:/ Printed for John Murray, 32, Fleet-Street;/ William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin./ By ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. - Poetry • George Gordon Byron
... of the last campaign had so raised the courage or the arrogance of Philip, that, after having assured himself afresh of the neutrality of the Achaeans and the fidelity of the Macedonians by the sacri fice of some strong places and of the detested admiral Heraclides, he next spring (556) assumed the offensive and advanced into the territory of the Atintanes, with a view to form a well- entrenched camp in the narrow pass, where the Aous (Viosa) winds its ...
— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen
... retort direct and no trafficker in the finer shades of sarcasm, cleared his throat and lifted up his voice. ''Ere, why don't you speak when you're spoke to, you lop-eared lager-beer barrel, you. Take your fice out o' that 'orse-flesh cat's-meat sossidge an' speak up, ...
— Between the Lines • Boyd Cable |
