"Fax" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... are, sir, and them's fax. They chucked them two pore chaps overboard, and, speaking up for my messmates and self, I says we don't hold with killing nobody 'cept in the name of dooty; but here's a set o' miserable beggars as goes about buying and ...
— The Black Bar • George Manville Fenn
... We have also the dim. Blundell. The corresponding English name is Fairfax, from Mid. Eng. fax, ...
— The Romance of Names • Ernest Weekley
... (80) he went post to tell the Protector the news, That Fleetwood ruld the rost, having tane off Dicke's shoes. And that he did believe, Lambert would him deceive As he his brother had gull'd, and Cromwell Fair fax bull'd. Sing hi ho, the attorney was still at your command; In flames together burn ye, still dancing hand in hand! ...
— Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 • Charles Mackay
... with first one, then the other of her tiny feet, in revenge for the way it had hurt her father by remaining open so that he could bump into it on that bloody, terrifying day. She sent little darts of exquisite pain through him by constantly alluding to the real devastator as "that nice Mr. Fairy-fax." It was her pleasure to regard him as a great big fairy who had promised her in secret that she would some day be like Cinderella and have all the riches the slipper showered upon ...
— What's-His-Name • George Barr McCutcheon |
