fytte
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Here is a fytte of Cloudeslie, And another is for to say.
From A Bundle of Ballads by Morley, Henry
If he had only lived a generation later, how charming would have been the fytte or canto on Quaternions!
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George
The trompettours blowe a fytte or a motte.
From Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters by Hazlitt, W. Carew
"Good friends," quoth he, My daughter Gillian suggesteth: Gill: That's rather good, But, still, I should In prose prefer the rest; For if this fytte Has love in it, Prose is for love the best.
From The Geste of Duke Jocelyn by Farnol, Jeffery
This fytte is based on the story, extremely common and essentially popular, especially in England, of a meeting between a king in disguise and one of his subjects.
From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Sidgwick, Frank
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