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In accord with my mother's advice I had endeavoured to cherish an affection for my uncle, yet withal there was something about the man that misliked me much, and, to speak straight to the point, that actually 'fley'd' me, for he would gloat o 'night over his glass of toddy on any scandal afloat concerning the' unco guid, 'and would speak with tongue i' the cheek of virtue in general, as if indeed hypocrisy were the true king of this world.

Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease

Wun I bin do dat, I is fley 'roun' da 'lilly gal so long tam, un I yeddy' im talk wit 'turrer gal.

Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation Joel Chandler Harris 1878

Wun I bin do dat, I is fley 'roun' da 'lilly gal so long tam, un I yeddy' im talk wit 'turrer gal.

Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878

In the protection of his garden-crops from the ravages of the birds, he invented a strange sort of “fley-craw,” which moved its arms with the wind; and he fastened his garden-door by means of a piece of ingenious mechanism, so that no one but himself could enter it.

Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Samuel Smiles 1858

We'l fley these beer-bellied rogues, come away quickly.

Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10) John Fletcher 1602

They swear they will fley us, and then dry our Quarters:

The False One Francis Beaumont 1600

"Let's hope you're a better guide than constable, young man, or, as that old fellow said in the road this morning, we'll fley the bird and not grip him.

The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance Hall Caine 1892