"Fil" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... For Banquo's issue have I fil'd my mind] [W: 'filed] This mark of contraction is not necessary. To file is in ...
— Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies • Samuel Johnson
... the poorness of my spirit go with you: the fetters of my thraldom are fil'd off, and I at liberty to right my self; and though my hope in Angellina's little, my honour (unto which compar'd she's nothing) shall, like the Sun, disperse those lowring Clouds that yet obscure and dim it; not the name of Brother shall divert me, but from him, ...
— The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher - Vol. 2 of 10: Introduction to The Elder Brother • Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
... Vierge-Marie aupres de mon poele Est venue hier, en manteau brode, Et m'a dit: Voici, cache sous mon voile, Le petit qu'un jour tu m'as demande. Courez a la ville; ayez de la toile, Achetez du fil, ...
— Views and Reviews - Essays in appreciation • William Ernest Henley
... vite chez votre tante, ma soeur, et dites-lui de vous prter une aiguille et du fil, car je veux ...
— Contes et lgendes - 1re Partie • H. A. Guerber
... of Thebes, that we rede; And we can herd how that King Laius deyde Thurgh Edippus his sone, and al that cede; And here we stenten [left off] at these lettres recle, How the bisshop, as the book can telle, Amphiorax, fil through ...
— Old English Libraries, The Making, Collection, and Use of Books • Ernest A. Savage
... speling can cure every il, And permits nothing foolish like two l's in pil. Sing hi! the new speling, Our comforting speling, Sing pil, bil, fil, wil, til, sil, ...
— How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee • Owen Wister
... as Vautrin The Duc de Montsorel The Marquis Albert de Montsorel, son to Montsorel Raoul de Frascas Charles Blondet, known as the Chevalier de Saint-Charles Francois Cadet, known as the Philosopher Fil-de-Soie Buteux Philippe Boulard, known as Lafouraille A Police Officer Joseph Bonnet, footman to the Duchesse de Montsorel The Duchesse de Montsorel (Louise de Vaudrey) Mademoiselle de Vaudrey, aunt to the Duchesse ...
— Vautrin • Honore de Balzac
... an heretike brent at the Tour Hill upon Hokmonday. Also this yere were grete flodes, which drowned Stebenhith marshe, Rayneham, and other lowe places. And this yere a quarter of whete fil fro the price of ix ...
— A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 • Anonymous
... o nouveau-nes, Au paradis, d'ou vous venez, Un leger fil d'or vous rattache. A ce fil d'or Tient ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield
... and pepper to taste. Let this boil a short time; then add one hundred oysters. Do not allow them to boil more than two minutes. Remove the vessel from the fire, and before pouring into the tureen, sprinkle in two tablespoonfuls of fil. ...
— Favorite Dishes • Carrie V. Shuman
... disgust or other capt. Cooke left his May flower and went on board the greate Shipp as a private Souldiar. capt. Batt. Sharpe, being command't in chiefe, putts a commander of the May flower one Jno. Cox. att these keys wee fil'd our water and putts to sea to ply to windward. these keys lye in 7 deg. 20' North lattitude. we had the wind att S.E. and B.E. and S.E. wee stood to the Southward, steming S. and B.W. and S.S.W., butt little winde and sometimes ...
— Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period - Illustrative Documents • Various
... mot "Dieu", les hommes n'ont jamais pu designer que la cause la plus cachee, la plus eloignee, la plus inconnue des effets qu'ils voyaient: ils ne font usage de ce mot, que lorsque le jeu des causes naturelles at connues cesse d'etre visible pour eux; des qu'ils perdent le fil de ces causes, on des que leur esprit ne peut plus en suivre la chaine, ils tranchent leur difficulte, at terminent leurs recherches en appellant Dieu la derniere des causes, c'est-a-dire celle qui est au-dela de toutes les causes qu'ils connaissent; ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume I • Percy Bysshe Shelley
... isolated garden, called "fil-lang'," now in ato Chakong, Lu-ma'-wig taught Bontoc how best to plant, cultivate, and garner her various agricultural products. Fil-lang' to-day is a unique little sementera. It is the only garden spot within the pueblo containing water. The pueblo is so situated that irrigating water can not ...
— The Bontoc Igorot • Albert Ernest Jenks
... Yankees wuz comin' we wuz skeerd, case Marse Abernathy told us dat dey'd skin us alive. I'members hit wuz de last o' April or de fust o' May when dey comed, an' I had started fer de cane fil' wid a bucket o' water on my haid, but when I sees dem Yankees comin' I draps de bucket ...
— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States • Various |
