"Fey" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... say that I was 'fey.' Ban, do you think it means that I'm coming back here to die?" She laughed again. "If I were fated to die here, I expect that I missed my good chance in the ...
— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... the wolves has encountered His 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 I met ...
— The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald • Unknown
... tells it you, master; and somehow or other I thinks—and I has experience in these things—by the fey, of his eye and the drop of his lip, that the captain's ...
— Paul Clifford, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... present excited state she would have torn up her best dress with equal readiness. She was elated with her success in the cricket field—what the Scotch call "fey"; and so long as she gratified her present whim, she had no thought ...
— The New Girl at St. Chad's - A Story of School Life • Angela Brazil
... down wind, and all eyes followed her. Suddenly the cook cried in his phonograph voice: "It wass his own death made him speak so! He iss fey—fey, I tell you! Look!" She sailed into a patch of watery sunshine three or four miles distant. The patch dulled and faded out, and even as the light passed so did the schooner. She dropped ...
— "Captains Courageous" • Rudyard Kipling
... volition. The man who retains the animal gift of unreasoning divination, preserving that clear power against the handicaps which mind training and education impose, is necessarily psychic, or, as they say in certain Celtic countries, "fey." ...
— Tam O' The Scoots • Edgar Wallace
... tax-free. The attempt of the Government to abolish this latter injustice evoked a storm of anger in the Diet of 1825, and still more in the country assemblies, some of the latter even resolving that such law, if passed, fey the Diet, ...
— History of Modern Europe 1792-1878 • C. A. Fyffe
... Martin. "You make me tired with your eternal 'fey' business. Little Billy is somewhere around the deck—probably seeking you, ...
— Fire Mountain - A Thrilling Sea Story • Norman Springer
... world, nor that the universe is governed and continued in being by that blessed and immortal nature, but say that the world is carried along of its own accord without a ruler and a curator." Maimonides, in his commentary on Sanhedrin, X, 1, derives the word from the Hebrew, [hefkeir (hey-fey-kuf-resh)], "freedom," and defines it as one who refuses obedience to the Law. Schechter (Studies in Judaism, I, p. 158) says, "It implies rather a frivolous treatment of the words of Scripture and tradition." See the Jewish Encyclopedia ...
— Pirke Avot - Sayings of the Jewish Fathers • Traditional Text
... laddie, ye'll get yer deid o' caul'!" she cried. "An' preserve's a'! what set ye lauchin' in sic a fearsome fashion as yon? Ye're surely no fey!" ...
— Warlock o' Glenwarlock • George MacDonald |
