firie

British  

/ ˈfaɪərɪ /

noun

1. informal a firefighter

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Example Sentences

But his Body And firie minde illustrate a brave Father.

From The Two Noble Kinsmen by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

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 Spenser, Edmund

As for precious stones, Beralle, Prasnes, Diamantes, firie Carbuncles and Pearles of all sortes, be founde there in greate plentie.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. by Hakluyt, Richard

And such a lamp or light is this our Sun, Whose firie beams the scortched Earth invade.

From Democritus Platonissans by More, Henry

There was she lost; when suddaine I behelde, Where, tumbling through the ayre in firie fold, All flaming downe she on the plaine was felde, And soone her bodie turn'd to ashes colde.

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund