fier
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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So, although oats may not be fortified in the same way as other cereals, they contain valuable nutrients and fier, and are far from nutrient-free.
From Salon • Mar. 19, 2024
You k’n hide de fier, but w’at you gwine do wid de smoke?
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
No more water but fier nex’ time— O didn’t it rain?
From Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes by Odum, Howard W.
The ordeal was not tryall by fier only, but also by water, nor for chastity only, but for many other matters.
From Animaduersions uppon the annotacions and corrections of some imperfections of impressiones of Chaucer's workes 1865 edition by Kingsley, G. H. (George Henry)
Yet was the ground not woundyd with the plough, But corne upsprange onsowe of mannes hand; No man yit knew the furous of hys land: No man yit fier owt of the flynt fand.
From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Lanier, Sidney
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