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Frye   /fraɪ/   Listen
Frye

noun
1.
Canadian literary critic interested in the use of myth and symbolism (1912-1991).  Synonyms: Herman Northrop Frye, Northrop Frye.






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"Frye" Quotes from Famous Books



... Frye of Maine, Aldrich of Rhode Island, Money of Mississippi, Taylor of Tennessee, and Elkins of West Virginia, were members of this House; all of whom are now Senators of marked ability, and well ...
— Something of Men I Have Known - With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective • Adlai E. Stevenson

... Government did, and until recently he saw very little of the American flag. European nations have protected their citizens, whether they were missionaries or traders. In the United States Senate Mr. Frye once reminded the nation that about twenty years ago England sent an army of 15,000 men down to the African coast, across 700 miles of burning sand, to batter down iron gates and stone walls, reach down ...
— An Inevitable Awakening • ARTHUR JUDSON BROWN

... man, and every morning, before starting, the soldiers kneeled or stood reverently with uncovered heads, while the chaplain, Rev. Jonathan Frye, offered prayer. ...
— Harper's Young People, September 21, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... to be back among my friends, and bound for one of the regular old-time campaigns. The following morning the command pulled out for Fort Laramie. We found General Sheridan there ahead of us, and mighty glad was I to see that brave and able commander once more. Sheridan was accompanied by General Frye and General Forsythe, and all were en route for the Red Cloud Agency, near the center of the Sioux trouble, which was then reaching really alarming proportions. The command was to remain at Laramie for a few days; so, at General Sheridan's request, I accompanied him on his journey. We were able ...
— An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) • Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody)

... hem and temper hem up with gode broth take Oynouns a grete quantite parboyle hem and frye hem and do erto. take smale bryddes [2] parboyle hem and do erto Pellydore [3] and salt. and a ...
— The Forme of Cury • Samuel Pegge

... Lovewell among them there did die, They killed Lieut. Robbins, and wounded good young Frye, Who was our English Chaplin; he many Indians slew, And some of them he scalped while ...
— A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers • Henry David Thoreau

... were Aldrich, Conger, Frye, Hawley, and Lapham, qualifying themselves for service in the Senate; the burly Robeson, ready to defend his acts as Secretary of the Navy; Judge Kelley, of Philadelphia, who had come down from a ...
— Perley's Reminiscences, Vol. 1-2 - of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis • Benjamin Perley Poore

... of value. The selections are fine. It is an excellent book for college students."—WM. P. FRYE, President pro tem. of the ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) • Various

... Frye said in a public address in Boston: "I say from all my observations made there, and they were made as carefully as I could make them, and in all honesty of purpose, there is only one country in Europe that comes within half of our wages, and that is England, ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 - Volume 1, Number 11 • Various

... works . . . . Yet the pamphlets, besides being palpably Whiggish, are larded passim with vulgarity of the 'Close-Stool' and 'Clyster' variety" (p. 376). The reader need look no further than Namby Pamby to see that Carey satisfies Northrop Frye's very proper observation: "Genius seems to have led practically every great satirist to become what the ...
— A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) • Anonymous

... number of people lunching in the great hotels in these war-time days, and I was glad to see Lady Allchin, looking remarkably well-nourished in a mauve Graeco-Roman dress and Gainsborough hat; Lady Waterstock, Lord Hilary Sprockett and Sir Peter Frye-Smith. ...
— Punch, 1917.07.04, Vol. 153, Issue No. 1 • Various

... Mr. Frye: Why would there be any more danger of affecting the soil in a chestnut orchard than there would in the apple and peach orchard by spraying seven, eight and ten times? That's the only question that arises ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report - at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948 • Various

... coat; Philemon Ward, tall, fair-skinned, blue-eyed, slim, and sturdy; skinny, nervous Lycurgus Mason and husky Gabriel Carnine from Minneola; Jake Dolan in his shirt sleeves, without adornment of any kind, except the gold horseshoe pinned on his shirt bosom; Daniel Frye, the pride of an admiring family, in his best home-made clothes; Henry Schnitzler, Oscar Fernald, and nearly a hundred other men, to the boy's eyes so familiar then, now forgotten, and all their faces blurred in the crowd that stood about the recruiting officer by the town ...
— A Certain Rich Man • William Allen White



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