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  • FIE: Today is the Fie family's day on 16th Street mall.

    CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2007 2007

  • Will Fie is another fabrication not based on any real person.

    Chris Adrian discusses his first novel, Gob's Grief. 2010

  • "Fie," Cuthbert repeated, as if he liked the sound of this word, not ar-chaic only in forgotten backwaters like Mejis.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • It will be remembered that the only chastisement that was in vogue in the Krita age was the crying of 'Fie' on an offender.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • "Fie," said John, an old servant, who, having grown gray in the service of his lordship's father, was now eating the bread of charity in the house of Baron Eichenthal.

    The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig Various

  • "Fie," you will say, "the site is savage, then, like all else in this New World?"

    Lady Good-for-Nothing Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • If one of them or both of them attain old age with thee, say not "Fie" unto them nor repulse them, but speak unto them a gracious word.

    Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902

  • Madame cried, "Fie," and hid her face with her hand.

    Simon Dale Anthony Hope 1898

  • "Fie," says he, "nobody is so dull as to say that the people of Rome made a covenant with the Romans, to hold the sovereignty on such or such conditions, which, not performed, the Romans might depose the Roman people."

    The Commonwealth of Oceana James Harrington 1644

  • But amongst the rest he was desirous to see the pope's court, and his manner of service at his table, wherefore he and his spirit made themselves invisible, and came to the pope's court and privy-chamber, where he was; there saw he many servants attending on his holiness, with many a flattering sycophant carrying his meat; and there he marked the pope, and the manner of his service, which he seeing to be so unmeasurable and sumptuous: "Fie," quoth Faustus, "why had not the devil made a pope of me?"

    Mediaeval Tales Henry Morley 1858

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