flyte
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
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But quoth I, Refrain thee nor flyte and scold!
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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 Rackham, Arthur
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 Scott, Walter, Sir
You would hardly do the right thing, if I didn't flyte at you, Andrew.
From A Knight of the Nets by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
O child of Adam let not hope make mock and flyte at thee vi.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Rumbleberry fought and flyted like a fleeing dragon.
From Old Mortality, Volume 1. by Scott, Walter, Sir
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 Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
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
Ae day he was flyting wi’ anither sodger-lad.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Let all your verse be Literall, sa far as may be, ... bot speciallie Tumbling verse for flyting.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
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 Morris, William
And in 1642 “John Bryson’s wife, in Scougall, is to be warned next day to the session for flyting with her husband, and abusing him by her unreverent speeches.”
From Bygone Church Life in Scotland by Various
"Hold your tongue, ye flyting fools," said the Doctor; "and you, ye idle rascals, if I come out among you."
From The Surgeon's Daughter by Scott, Walter, Sir
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