"Fay" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... big room at the inn, Tom?" returned Murphy, "and not better drink in Ireland than Mrs. Fay's. What do you say, lads—one and all—will you ...
— Handy Andy, Volume One - A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes • Samuel Lover
... bird; So he rose, and a woman indeed he saw by the door of the cave With her raiment wet to her midmost, as though with the river-wave: And he cried: "What wilt thou, what wilt thou? be thou womankind or fay, Here is no good abiding, ...
— The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs • William Morris
... we grace the day? With feast, and song, and dance, and antique sports, And shout of happy children in the courts, And tales of ghost and fay? ...
— War Poetry of the South • Various
... faire pourveance D'un pen de lart, sans point de rance, Que tu tailleras comme de: S'en sera le paste pouldre. S tu le veux de bonne guise, Du vertjus la grappe y soit mise, D'un bien peu de sel soit pouldre ... ... Fay mettre des oeufs en la paste, Les croutes un peu rudement Faictes de flour de pur froment ... ... N'y mets espices ni fromaige ... Au four bien a point chaud le met, Qui de cendre ait l'atre bien net; E quand sera bien a point cuit, I n'est si ...
— Manners, Custom and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period • Paul Lacroix
... Scarce fewer could win way, if their desire A dragon baulked, with involuted spire, And writhen snout spattered with yeasty fire. For at the elfin portal hangs a horn Which none can wind aright Save the appointed knight Whose lids the fay-wings brushed when he was born. All others stray forlorn, Or glimpsing, through the blazoned windows scrolled Receding labyrinths lessening tortuously In half obscurity; With mystic images, inhuman, cold, That flameless torches ...
— Sister Songs • Francis Thompson
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