"Featly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... other by the wrist. And among them sings one, not mean nor puny, but tall to look upon and enviable in mien, Artemis who delights in arrows, sister of Apollo. Among them sport Ares and the keen-eyed Slayer of Argus, while Apollo plays his lyre stepping high and featly and a radiance shines around him, the gleaming of his feet and close-woven vest. And they, even gold-tressed Leto and wise Zeus, rejoice in their great hearts as they watch their dear son ...
— Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica • Homer and Hesiod
... day and week after week it carries the timid, desponding soul over its sea of trouble and disappointment, and pictures its love-dream in colors more and more beautiful. How it ensnares us, and then betrays us with its false visions of future bliss. It beguiles both you and me with its featly spun tales of fame and riches, which it weaves so ...
— The Von Toodleburgs - Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family • F. Colburn Adams
... the fair lark-pie. With steak and kidneys too, of course; Your ancestors were glad to die, So well I made the oyster sauce. I had you stewed and featly fried, And dipped in batter—think of that; And, as a pleasant change, I've tried You, skewered in rows, ...
— Punch, or The London Charivari, Volume 101, October 31, 1891 • Various
... sands, And then take hands; Courtsied when you have and kissed The wild waves whist, Foot it featly here and there; And, sweet ...
— The Pearl of Orr's Island - A Story of the Coast of Maine • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... to seek his stateroom—with the pilot dropped and the Sybarite footing it featly over Channel waters to airs piped by a freshening breeze—it was to sleep once round the clock and something more; for it was nearly six in the afternoon when he ...
— Alias The Lone Wolf • Louis Joseph Vance
... sweetnesse. 140 These in their natures onely are Fit to embosse the border, Therefore Ile take especiall care To place them in their order: Sweet-Williams, Campions, Sops-in-Wine One by another neatly: Thus haue I made this Wreath of mine, And finished it featly. ...
— Minor Poems of Michael Drayton • Michael Drayton
... as featly as the edge he plies, Of that good faulchion forged of stubborn grain; And, at strange blindman's bluff, in weary wise, Hammers on Dudon with such might and main, He often dazzles so the warrior's eyes, That hardly he his saddle can ...
— Orlando Furioso • Lodovico Ariosto
... my masters!" cried a tall archer, whom no one had hitherto noticed, rising in one corner of the room. "It is—The headsman of Calais, and may he do his work featly tomorrow!" ...
— Windsor Castle • William Harrison Ainsworth |
