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"Some 'once-upon-a-time stories, Auntie Vi. Make believe we two girls go all about among the fairies, just as Alice did in Wonderland; only there are two of us together, and we shall have a better time!" "Oh, fie! How could I take real live little girls into the kingdom of the elves and gnomes and pixies? I shouldn't know how!" But she was so obliging as to try.

'I swear, said Meddlechip, loudly, raising his hand, 'I swear 'Oh, fie! observed M. Vandeloup, in a shocked tone; 'an old man like you should not swear; it's very wrong, I assure you; besides, with a disparaging glance, 'you are not suited to melodrama.

Loud sounds of wailing were heard within the inner apartments of the palace. The citizens also, hearing of the end of the old king, uttered loud lamentations. "O fie!" cried king Yudhishthira in great agony, raising his arms aloft. Thinking of his mother, he wept like a child. All his brothers too, headed by Bhimasena, did the same.

"My dear Vaudemont, between our blunt, soldierly natures, and those wily, icy, sneering intellects, there is the antipathy of the dog to the cat." "Perhaps so on our side, not on his or why does he invite us?" "London is empty; there is no one else to ask. We are new faces, new minds to him. We amuse him more than the hackneyed comrades he has worn out. Besides, he plays and you, too. Fie on you!"

After giving this blunt speech time to sink, she added, "Come now, she is robbing her own to save yours, and you can think of nothing better than bursting out a-blubbering in the woman's face. Out fie, for shame!" "Nay, wife," said the nurse. "Thank Heaven, I have enough for my own and for hers to boot. And prithee wyte not on her! Maybe the troubles o' life ha' soured her own milk."

"Well, she said nothing about the sword, Olaf, so let it be. All she said was that I must be careful that the robe matched the colour of the necklace you wear. She cannot bear colours which jar upon each other, especially by lamp-light." "Am I a man," I asked angrily, "or a beast being decked for sacrifice?" "Fie, Olaf, have you not yet forgotten your heathen talk?

"Willingly," he replied; "but I must swim first in the Tiber!" "Be it so, there is time enough; I will swim also." And they moved down in company toward the river. Fie, fie, upon her; There’s a language in her eye, her cheek, her lip; Nay, her foot speaks, her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.

"Not under our laws. By the civil law, such a thing might have been done, and by the Scotch law; but not under the perfection of reason." "I wish you knew this young Virginian! The lad bears both of my names, Wycherly Wychecombe." "He is not a filius Wycherly is he, baronet?" "Fie upon thee, brother Thomas!

It was as pleasant to Esmond on his couch to watch the young man's pleasure at the idea of being free, as to note his simple efforts to disguise his satisfaction on going away. There are days when a flask of champagne at a cabaret, and a red-cheeked partner to share it, are too strong temptations for any young fellow of spirit. I am not going to play the moralist, and cry "Fie."

His lips were bloody, Wilhelm knew from what, yet he did not reprove the hungry boy, but merely said: "Fie, you pole-cat!" Early the next morning a second dove returned. The letters the winged messengers had brought were read aloud from the windows of the town-hall, and the courage of the populace, pressed to the extremest limits of endurance, flickered up anew and helped them bear their misery.