flyted

As soon as they began to remove them, they were surprised by hearing cries and screams; and looking around in fear and trembling they saw a woman seeming to have started out of the earth, who flyted at them, that is, scolded them, in Gaelic.

Rob Roy 2005

Rumbleberry fought and flyted like a fleeing dragon.

Old Mortality 2004

"Then up and spak 'the Duke, and flyted on his cook, I regard it as a sensible aspersion, That I would sup ava', an 'satiate my maw, With the bluid of ony clan of my aversion."

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

As soon as they began to remove them, they were surprised by hearing cries and screams; and looking around in fear and trembling they saw a woman seeming to have started out of the earth, who flyted at them, that is, scolded them, in Gaelic.

Rob Roy 1887

Then up and spak the Duke, and flyted on his cook,

David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Father was very angry when he came, and said he'd take it to the workhouse the next morning, and flyted me sadly about it.

Lizzie Leigh Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

Rumbleberry fought and flyted like a fleeing dragon.

Old Mortality, Volume 1. Walter Scott 1801

As soon as they began to remove them, they were surprised by hearing cries and screams; and looking around in fear and trembling they saw a woman seeming to have started out of the earth, who _flyted_ at them, that is, scolded them, in Gaelic.

Rob Roy — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801

As soon as they began to remove them, they were surprised by hearing cries and screams; and looking around in fear and trembling they saw a woman seeming to have started out of the earth, who _flyted_ at them, that is, scolded them, in Gaelic.

Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801

Rumbleberry fought and flyted like a fleeing dragon.

Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801