flyte
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
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Mass, but she's out in the street, come o't what like, and the auld Glover will be as mad as if I could withhold her, will she nill she, flyte she fling she.
From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Sir Walter Scott
"Have you not better word than that?" she would flyte at him at the second cry; and if the bird would crow the three times, she would be lavish with the feeding and grow cheerful.
From The McBrides A Romance of Arran by John Sillars
O Bell, why dost thou flyte and scorn?
From A Bundle of Ballads by Henry Morley
Now this was mair than Hugh could stan’ Frae Tam to get the wite, And getting vent, he burst on Tam, Then baith began to flyte.
From Splores of a Halloween, Twenty Years Ago by Alexander Dick
Take me from Pevensey to fisk and flyte through fern and forest, and in three days Robert’s keels would be lying on Pevensey mud with ten thousand men!
From Puck of Pook’s Hill by Arthur Rackham
Rumbleberry fought and flyted like a fleeing dragon.
From Old Mortality, Volume 1. by Sir Walter Scott
Father was very angry when he came, and said he’d take it to the workhouse the next morning, and flyted me sadly about it.
From Lizzie Leigh by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Father was very angry when he came, and said he'd take it to the workhouse the next morning, and flyted me sadly about it.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
What is your quarrel about, and for what are ye flyting against the kirk and the minister and the kirkkeepers?
From Foes by Mary Johnston
Take off the ring, sweetling, and get thee to thine hunting, for if thou come home empty-handed there will be flyting awaiting thee, or worse.
From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris
Critical attention was absorbed by controversies of Campion and Daniel over native and classical versification, and the flyting of Harvey and Nash.
From Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism by Donald Lemen Clark
There was never a fair word in flyting.
From Collection of Scotch Proverbs by Pappity Stampoy
Tragedies vary with humorous skits, extravagant and mocking, and the collection is enlivened with many flyting poems about tailors—a favorite butt of the peasant past.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various
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