Do we say fay or fey

fay 641 occurrences

Near the village she paused, bathed her eyes in the brook, and, assuming an air of deliberation and calmness, began making inquiries as to the whereabouts of Jim Fay.

The rider was Jim Fay.

"He takes it hard, poor fellow!" thought Fay.

Fay cast an understanding glance at the young man's rifle, and sprang to the entrance of the shaft.

As though in direct corroboration of his speech, Fay could perceive, just emerging from the shadow, the sinister figure of the man Arthur creeping cautiously up the ladder, evidently encouraged to an attempt to escape by the sound of the conversation above.

Fay waited a moment.

Fay, with a slight shrug of contempt at such womanish weakness, ran to his assistance.

Jim Fay stooped and examined the wound closely.

Fay saw that the hurt itself was slight, and that the Easterner had fainted more because of loss of blood than from the shock.

Fay listened to this speech quietly and with patience.

" "Well," Fay chuckled, apparently not displeased, "you're an obstinate young man, or rather a pig-headed young man, but I don't know as that counts against you.

" "Who plugged you?" inquired Fay, motioning with the mouthpiece of his pipe toward the wounded shoulder.

The kids!" said Fay suddenly.

"The next thing is grub," remarked Fay, rising and gathering his pony's reins.

"Wilhelmina Fay.

"He's Jim FayJames Leicester Fay, of Boston.

The mere item that Jim Fay was Mary's brother, instead of her lover, made all the difference in the world.

" "No pardon coming to me," responded Fay heartily.

Mrs. Lawton and Miss Fay had moved in, bag and baggagebut without the inquisitive Maude, Bennington was glad to observe.

Fay and the Leslies had also taken up their quarters in the camp.

"We didn't want the nuisance of a prosecution," said Fay, "because that would mean that these mossbacks could drag us off to Rapid City any old time as witnesses, and keep us there indefinitely.

© 25Feb26, A883738. R108906, 17Mar53, William Faulkner (A) FAY, ELIZA.

SEE Fay, Eliza. FOSTER, JOHN M., illus.

Grace B. Faxon (A); 6Jan54; R124060. FAY, CHARLES RALPH.

Grace B. Faxon (A); 6Jan54; R124060. FAY, CHARLES RALPH.

fey 18 occurrences

Then are our Beggers bodies; and our Monarchs and out-stretcht Heroes the Beggers Shadowes: shall wee to th'Court: for, by my fey I cannot reason? Both.

As near as our alphabet can convey them, they ran thus: "Dangkarree Au fey, Oluu werrei, Au lay," which may be rendered almost literally by the following couplet: Air by the chief: "Come to plunder, come to slay;" Chorus of followers: "We are ready to obey.

unfortunate &c (hapless) 735; to be pitied, doomed, devoted, accursed, undone, lost, stranded; fey. unhappy, infelicitous, poor, wretched, miserable, woe-begone; cheerless &c (dejected) 837; careworn.

A poor woman, who too probably would find herself, in a day or two, to have suffered the heaviest of afflictions by the battle, blindly allowed herself to express an exultation so unmeasured in the news, and its details, as gave to her the appearance which amongst Celtic Highlanders is called fey.

The lads are a' cheerin' and rinnin' fey, For the Government's gien us the sax-hour day.

He almost felt what Scots call "fey."

No wonder he felt "fey" to-night.

"I knew it was," he replied, and added: "Man, you and I are fey.

Manyou and I are fey."

and I are fey"....

By Harold Edward Fey.

Harold E. Fey (A); 15Oct76; R643780. R643781.

By Harold Edward Fey.

Harold E. Fey (A); 15Oct76; R643780. R643781.

"He used to say of a certain excited, happy feeling, a sort of fey feeling, that you seemed to have swallowed a heavenly pigeon.

Next morning, if any of these stones was found to be displaced or injured, the people made sure that the person represented by it was fey or devoted, and that he could not live twelve months from that day.[590] In the parish of Logierait, which covers the beautiful valley of the Tummel, one of the fairest regions of all Scotland, the Hallowe'en fire was somewhat different.

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 was fey with spring and mirth Speaking him without a thought Now is joy

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