feal
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of feal
1550–60; < Old French feal ; see fealty
Example Sentences
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Ye know how my lord, Caerleon's liege, Swore feal to the Romans His lorn wife and daughters— When the wolf, Death, Gnawed life from his heart.
From Nirvana Days by Cale Young Rice
They wont bight nor jaw back, but they feal az raw and kold az the yelk ov an egg.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
Sometimes I feal like gittin' lonesum but I jist keep puttin' it of.
From Sowing Seeds in Danny by Nellie L. McClung
I feal very anctious about you this winter, and how you are a doing.
From Spinning-Wheel Stories by Louisa May Alcott
He was thus answered by another parish oracle--perhaps the schoolmaster, perhaps a weaver:--"Fat better culd the man dee nir he's dune?--he bud tae big's dyke wi' the feal at fit o't."
From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay
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