"Fet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... than when he had last beheld it. The 'bo-fet,' or double corner-cupboard, where the china was formerly kept, had disappeared, its place being taken by a plain board. The tall old clock, with its ancient oak carcase, arched brow, and humorous mouth, was ...
— The Well-Beloved • Thomas Hardy
... expedier letres du Roy en patent pour avoir license et conge faira led. voiaige, et que aucun empeschement ne leur sera fet ou donne par aucune nation des aliez, amys ou cofenderez ...
— The Voyage of Verrazzano • Henry C. Murphy
... that his uncle Fet-Shenshin, the famous poet, when driving through the Mokhovaia Street, would invariably let down the window of his carriage and spit at the University. He would expectorate and spit: Bah! His coachman got so used to this that every time he ...
— Note-Book of Anton Chekhov • Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
... dans leur langue. Ils se sont alors empar des mots chinois en leur donnant des terminaisons mandchoues, mais cette quasi-ressemblance de certains mots mandchous ne prouve point le moins du monde l'identit des deux langues. Par exemple, un prfet se dit en chinois tchi-fou, et un sous-prfet tchi-hien; les mandchous qui ne possdaient point ces fonctionaires se sont contents de transcire les sons ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller
... the willow brush in an instant and with him vanished all my hopes of obtaining horses for the preasent. I now felt quite as much mortification and disappointment as I had pleasure and expectation at the first sight of this indian. I fet soarly chargrined at the conduct of the men particularly Sheilds to whom I principally attributed this failure in obtaining an introduction to the natives. I now called the men to me and could not forbare abraiding them a little for their want of attention and imprudence on this ...
— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al
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