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The Fays were the sort of friends with whom Jack and Jackie had a long history and with whom they could completely relax.
The Kennedy Detail Gerald Blaine 2010
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"All those women were called Fays who had to do with enchantment and charms and knew the power and virtue of words, of stones, and of herbs, by which they were kept in youth and in great beauty and in great riches."
A Study of Fairy Tales Laura F. Kready
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Fays fight for their rights; let's say they get it; then what else?
Frank slams Obama for 'big mistake' on Defense of Marriage Act (updated) 2009
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On that Sunday afternoon in September 1963, the Kennedys and the Fays cruised Narragansett Bay aboard the Honey Fitz, the ninety-two-foot presidential yacht, while Art Godfrey and Jerry Blaine followed in a speedboat.
The Kennedy Detail Gerald Blaine 2010
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The Fays continued their collaboration with Yeats and Lady Gregory until January 1908.
Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000
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The songs of Graves, Fahy, and those of Campbell and Colum written a little later, are folklore.449 Then came the theatre, with the two Fays directing the acting, and Synge, Lady Gregory and I its literature.
Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000
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LEMON: All the Fays I know are usually nice people.
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Pope's most charming adaptations are in passages on the “Fays, Faeries, Genii, Elves and Daemons,” which he added to the second edition of The Rape of the Lock.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON 1968
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Over the grand entrance of this abbey was inscribed, _Fays ce que voudras_, "Do what you like;" and the jokes of the members of the club consisted principally in wearing monkish dresses, and drinking wine out of a communion cup to a pagan divinity.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr
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In connection with the Fays 'life in this house occurred one thing which will particularly send the building down into posterity, and will link for all time Radcliffe and Harvard traditions.
The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees Mary Caroline Crawford
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