flyte
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
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Mattha Branthet," said Reuben Thwaite, "what, man, thoo didst flyte the minister!
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir
O Bell, why dost thou flyte and scorne?
From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James
Sing o' her carles teuch an' auld, Her carlines grim that flyte an' scauld, Her wabsters blithe, an' souters bauld, Her flocks an' herds sae fair to see.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles
O Bell my wife, why dost thou flyte?
From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, 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
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
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
There ne'er was a fair word in flyting.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander
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
There's a frown on the brow o' the Urie, and his face is hidden from me, and listen to the grumbling and flyting o' the burn.
From The McBrides A Romance of Arran by Sillars, John
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
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
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