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Using fibred dialogue and lucid pantomime, for two acts he catches the fumbling wonderment of ordinary people, cakes their life with humor, charges it with feeling.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Ant Fly.—The body is made of brown floss silk, and a small fibred peacock harl at tail; a brown red hackle for legs, and wings of starling feather.

From Blacker's Art of Fly Making, &c. Comprising Angling, & Dyeing of Colours, with Engravings of Salmon & Trout Flies by Blacker, William

She stood very straight, young, slender, finely and strongly fibred.

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary

These women, too, seemed more strongly fibred, courageous, high of head than the Hayti women.

From 1492 by Johnston, Mary

The Black Palmer, or Hackle.—The body is made of yellow floss silk, ribbed with silver tinsel, and two short fibred black hackles struck on from the tail to the shoulder.

From Blacker's Art of Fly Making, &c. Comprising Angling, & Dyeing of Colours, with Engravings of Salmon & Trout Flies by Blacker, William