"Fady" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... like thee, lordly lady, Star-choragus of the night! Color worships, fainting fady, Night grows darker ...
— Mary Marston • George MacDonald
... practice for increasing the apparent distance of objects, or for lengthening the perspective of an avenue by widening it in the foreground and planting it there with dark-foliaged trees, like yews and firs, "then with trees more and more fady, till they end in the almond-willow or silver osier." To have Lord Lyttelton bring in a party at the small, or willow end of such a walk, and thereby spoil the whole trick, must indeed have been provoking. Johnson asserts that Shenstone's house was ruinous ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century • Henry A. Beers |
