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Examples
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He spit in his faist (beggin): he tape the raw baste (paddin): he planked his pledge (as dib is a dab): and he tog his fringe sleeve (buthock lad, fur whale).
Finnegans Wake 2006
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'Enough's as good as a faist, yer honour,' cried the stranger, skipping from side to side, and evading the blows very skilfully; 'pon my sowl, yer honour' ud do for a fair or a wake.
Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale
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There was a great faist given, and at the faist Jack said he had a little wondher he fetched with him, that he'd like to show; and he produced his bottle, and sent it round the prences, and nobility, and genthry that were all assembled at the faist, and axed them all to drink the Queen's health out of it.
Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know Various 1896
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England gave a great faist in their honour, too, and at this faist
Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know Various 1896
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Soogah's pack is a faist for the leedies -- hem -- I mane a feest for the ladies -- hillo -- ha! ha! ha! there's a touch of Buck English himself for you.
The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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a good fortune; ay, an 'a sweet love-faist he had of it; he dropped the
Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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Well, of coorse, what's a faist for the ladies must surely be a thrate to the gintlemen. "
The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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