firie
Britishnoun
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And after her Mars rangeth in a round With firie locks and angry flaming eye, And next to him mild Jupiter is found, But Saturn cold wons in our utmost skie.
From Democritus Platonissans by Henry More
But his Body And firie minde illustrate a brave Father.
From The Two Noble Kinsmen by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
Who flies with wings above in starry skies, And doth subdue each thing with firie flight.
From The Golden Asse by William Adlington
Howbeit, suppose that these things be true which they report of firie mountaines: is it possible therefore that they should seeme strange, or monstrous, whenas they proceed from naturall causes?
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Richard Hakluyt
Both stricken strike, and beaten both do beat, That from their shields forth flyeth firie light, And helmets hewen deepe show marks of eithers might.
From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser
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