How To Use Fife In A Sentence
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And that was all my poor cousin got by making his old mistress his new wife — not a drum, not a trumpet, not a fife, not a tabret, nor the expectation of a new joy, to animate him on!
Clarissa Harlowe
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He was left in limbo by Scottish Labour's Executive, which refused to endorse his candidacy until Fife police concluded their investigations into the case.
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Unlike the buccaneers, who had fired high to cripple their enemies above decks, the French fifed low to smash the hull of their assailant.
Captain Blood
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The Fife coast harbours many insects which are rare elsewhere in Britain.
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Yes, -- and, to confirm my suspicions, here rattle in the drums and pipe in the fifes, wooing us to get up, _get up_, with music too peremptory to be harmonious.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861
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He sees no reason to stop now I had spent the previous night galumphing gracelessly up and down the village hall of Strathmiglo, in the heart of the Howe of Fife.
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What would a representative of such an august organ be doing in an urban fastness of Fife at 11.30 pm if it was not kerb-crawling?
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However, with prices rising to £50 a ton Scottish Coal, Scotland's biggest producer, has decided to open and extend opencast mines in east Ayrshire, south Lanarkshire, the Lothians and Fife.
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Now the fifer was the clarionet-player's brother; and he, turning on the trumpeter, roared --
Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes
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Orders issued in 1791 and 1795 prohibited Eurasians from commissioned service in the army, except as drummers, fifers, and farriers.
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I capered clumsily into the mob and drew a squad of ghosts trotting with a fife band.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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A flink dab for a freck dive and a stern poise for a swift pounce was frankily at the manual arith sure enough which was the bekase he knowed from his cradle, no bird better, why his fingures were giving him whatfor to fife with.
Finnegans Wake
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He said he hoped to work with Fife council leader Peter Grant and hoped he would agree to stop what he called the unpopular care home charges.
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He would appear to be under the impression we are a band of rapparee fifers.
At Swim, Two Boys
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Its tradition stretches back to the fifers and drummers stationed with Hudson Valley minutemen during the Revolutionary War.
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I hope he does. .it would make it easier for Obama to defeat McCain aka Andy Griffith's grandpa and you a combo of Barney Fife and Barney Rubble.
Huckabee: 'Lousy joke' but 'pretty benign issue'
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He was prefent too at the Sea fight at Salamis. which was fought before he was re/fifed from his Punifhment.
Vitae excellentium imperatorum; cum versione Anglicâ, in quâ verbum de verbo, quantum fieri potuit, redditus; notis quoquè Anglicis, [et] indice locupletissimo; or, Lives of the excellent commanders;
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The Fife side hammered their opponents 4-1 at Central Park while the Hampden side slipped up again with a goalless draw against Brechin City at Glebe Park.
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Benjie, poor doggie, was vastly proud of the flute, which he fifed away on morning, noon, and night; and, for more than a fortnight, would not go to his bed unless it was laid under his pillow.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
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The airport is west of the city beyond the junction where the Glasgow and Fife lines diverge.
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The Fife sculptor and Royal Academician itemises his latest creations for our benefit.
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Kingston's first-ever coordinated Christmas street lighting was on December 3, 1979 in Market Place and Fife Road consisting of 16 shimmering gold crowns.
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Sadly, their hosts still won, the final score being … Forfar 5, East Fife 4.
Which teams have had to wear their opponents' kit? | The Knowledge
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Fife Fire and Rescue Service in Scotland has teamed up with mobile phone giant Orange to allow crews to send picture messages to accident and emergency units directly from the scene.
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It's an awfy nice wee wheel, as we would say in Fife.
Friday.
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Much of the grain spirit that goes into the dominant blends is made in eight vast, unromantic alcohol factories without twee visitor centres across the central belt from Girvan to Dumbarton to Leven in Fife.
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But how many others thought, or even still think the same way? fifer
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
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The lifeboat was launched after Fife coastguards received a distress call from the grounded vessel.
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Other events at the castle included 24 drummers who gave a special display involving drums, bugles and fifes, and an appearance of the Richmond Drummer boy, an important part of local legend.
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He delivered lectures upon geography and astronomy: those who could play instruments, such as clarionet, fife, and violin, were stationed on the deck, while the rest marched in ranks.
The History of Tasmania , Volume II
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A politician is a man who undertands government, and it takes a poiltician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead ten or fifeen years.
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For these speakers, the diphthong in fife starts out near the vowel of bud, and ends near the vowel of bade; while the diphthong in five starts near the vowel of hod, and ends nears the vowel of hed.
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Despite their seemingly irreconcilable differences, however, the feuding drummer and fifer made an appearance on Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show Tuesday night and even played a little number.
Tea Party Fife-And-Drum Duo Ripped Apart By Political Differences Reunite (VIDEO)
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The separation of the Borders and fife from the proposed South-east region was more controversial.
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The wild wailings of the pibroch were heard at times, interchanged with the drums and fifes, which beat the Dead March.
Chronicles of the Canongate
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Fife Symington, said Dole should have attended the forum.
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Per contra, there was Frank Barlow, whom we used to call "Crazy Barlow" because of his headlong rush at whatever object he had in view, and he could make the call shrill and thrill like a fife.
My Friends at Brook Farm
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In the small Fife town of Lumphinnans there is a street named in honour of the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
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Then there are home-made fifes and whistles and drums, combs covered with paper, extemporized triangles, and bones made from ribs of salt horse such as negro minstrels use.
CHAPTER XLIII
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A politician is a man who undertands government, and it takes a poiltician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead ten or fifeen years.
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A politician is a man who undertands government, and it takes a poiltician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead ten or fifeen years.
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It's nearly 20 years since those gallant lads o’ Fife, led by Christie, set off from the hamlet of Freuchie, in the lea of the Lomond Hills, en route to cricket's HQ at Lord's and a date with destiny.
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Even with a force six easterly bearing in from the North Sea yesterday, Crail still appeared like the cosy little corner of the East Neuk of Fife it undoubtedly is.
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The modal tunes reminiscent of pipers ' fifes and reels mixed with ragtime and black scales is a really extraordinary and rich mixture, constantly a reminder of the history of the South.
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A politician is a man who undertands government, and it takes a poiltician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead ten or fifeen years.
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If another weekend was ruined for the Fifers' manager by a slipshod performance, his counterpart will hardly be able to wipe the smile off his face.
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I know she's not the brightest, but she is from Fife and they know all about skimming public money there, don't they?
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Other musical instruments included stringed instruments such as fiddles and harps, and woodwind instruments such as flutes and fifes.
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He played the fife for military assemblies and the violin for dancing parties.
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Lothian and Fife — saddle our Spanish barb, and bid French Paris see our petronel be charged! —
The Abbot
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Yes, -- and, to confirm my suspicions, here rattle in the drums and pipe in the fifes, wooing us to get up, _get up_, with music too peremptory to be harmonious.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861
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The design of the sedilia resembles that at St. Monans, Fife, and adjoining the sedilia is the piscina, the aperture of which is still visible.
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys
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Amerindian men perform a dance in the local church to the accompaniment of fife and drums.
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Set in a Fife factory and drawn from personal experiences, the bleak subject is enlivened with humour and wit.
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I believe Krauthammer called it 'an uncertain trumpet'. come to think of it, he looks a bit like a second-rate trumpet player. fifer
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
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And the naval vessels Jarrett, Fife, and an explosive ordnance detachment, swarth (ph) vessel, also participated in the event, evening and morning.
CNN Transcript Feb 2, 2000
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Being built on four levels with the ground floor reserved for secure parking, the flats will have panoramic views north across the Forth estuary to Fife.
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Then at intervals in a remote part of the enchanted grove, a delightfull thrill came through the bosom from the roll of the fife and the "spirit stirring Drum".
Letter 35
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Fife Constabulary's wildlife crime officer described baiting, specially trained dogs being set on badgers, as brutally vicious.
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Say that again, you foul-mouthed dog o 'Fife, and I'll gralloch you like a deer!" cried the Chamberlain, his face tingling.
Doom Castle
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Woolwich, sitting on his stool in the corner, and beckons that fifer to him.
Bleak House
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Fife-and-drum units in colonial militias added a heavy, regimented “da-dum, da-dum” beat—free of irregular syncopation—and transformed the dance song into a march.
A Renegade History of the United States
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All at once fall in, arms are unpiled, and, enlivened by our band, we again step out; now feet begin to ache, and boots to chafe; but the cheery music of the bands, bugles, or drums and fifes of the regiments marching next to us, generally the Rifles, infuses energy into the most footsore.
Our Sailors Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign
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Previously you just turned up and paid at the turnstiles. (my emphasis) fifer
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
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He played the fife and was a great lover of traditional music.
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Originally from Fife, Smith was with the Metropolitan police for 10 years before being invalided out at the end of the 1980s.
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At Aberdour Castle, Fifeshire, a vertical dial in a circle engraved on a square slab is set in a kind of niche cutting across the corner of the building and facing south-west.
The Book of Sun-Dials
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The deceased gentleman was the eldest son of Captain Hugh Pearson, R.N., of Hilton, Scotland, and was born at Hilton, parish of Kilmany, Fifeshire, in 1818.
Archive 2009-03-01
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A politician is a man who undertands government, and it takes a poiltician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead ten or fifeen years.
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‘So sad what's happened with Scottish football,’ he mourns in his soft Fife burr.
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I have no doubt that the disuse of the fife and drum by one regiment after another, until they have become practically obsolete in our service, has been due to this very difficulty of providing adequate material and training.
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Yesterday, the Fife stadium resounded to a new tune within the bugler's repertoire, the strains of the French national anthem being heard in deference to the inspired double signing during the week of two players from France.
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In 1946, just prior to nationalisation, only 14 out of Fife's 34 collieries had pithead baths; after nationalisation they all got them.
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The lifeboat was launched after Fife coastguards received a distress call from the grounded vessel.
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We have got a piano and a parlor organ in the cabin, and a snare drummer, a base drummer and a fifer…If they have a choir in that ship I mean to run it.
Mark Twain
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The standard fife, the old Renaissance treble, is pitched in B and has six finger holes.
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The U.S. Geological Survey says mudflows from Mount Rainier would be the primary hazard to communities in the valley, including Orting, Sumner, Puyallup and Fife.
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The liberals 'overreach has awakened the sleeping giant known as The Silent Majority and they're suddenly amazed the American people aren't just dancing along merrily to the fife the Pied Piker (Obama) is playing.
Obama goes to health-care battlefront with N.H. town hall
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For one significant reason, the jocular Thomson can afford not to be too downbeat about the Fifers' 8-1 mauling on their own patch last month.
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Fife Symington, who gave his OK.
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Long traffic queues are already commonplace on both the southbound carriageway in Fife during the morning rush period and at South Queensferry in the evenings.
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But the next moment she heard the familiar sounds of a jig she knew well - "Half a Penny" - played on some kind of fife or pipe.
The Lark And The Wren
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Brockridge's little finger; of being drummed and fifed here and there; and of reciting a Latin lesson at six o'clock in the morning, after an hour's drill on the parade ground.
In School and Out or, The Conquest of Richard Grant.
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I capered clumsily into the mob and drew a squad of ghosts trotting with a fife band.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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We make an immediate start to constructing a coal-fired power station in Fife.
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Fife Symington vetoed a bill that would have given the Insurance Department the power to investigate and fine managed-care plans.
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He had a great longing — strange enough in that peaceful sheep-raising neighborhood — to go into the army; but he and his elder brother were the mainstay of their crippled father, and he could not be spared from the large household until a younger brother could take his place; so that all his fire and military zeal went for the present into martial tunes, and the fife was the safety-valve for his enthusiasm.
Decoration Day
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Increasing sophistication of construction allowed the development of complicated drum tunes, played in combination with tonal instruments such as fifes or bagpipes.
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A politician is a man who undertands government, and it takes a poiltician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead ten or fifeen years.
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Some contamination by heavy metals was detected, notably in the industrial areas of Fife, and also more widely by tin.
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Natives of Fife and British Columbia respectively, they are musicians familiar with wide open spaces who are also capable of sounding as if their work was spawned from the world's pokiest garage.
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The fife sentence prisoners are not the only ones serving long sentences.
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The Marine Band began as a fledgling band of fifes and drums through an act of Congress signed July 11, 1798 by President John Adams.
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He singles one of them out - a musician, and tells him to play a tune on his fife.
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Spectacular Vistas and Ancient Landscapes Along the Hilly Roads Outside Edinburgh From the crenellated walls of Edinburgh Castle, perched on the dramatic volcanic plug that straddles Princes Street Gardens, one has an unbroken view of the southern peninsula of the Kingdom of Fife.
Drives That Leave the City Behind
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The Being who is fupremely good, hath vouch - fifed to ftretch out a father's hand over you.
The new Robinson Crusoe : an instructive and entertaining history for the use of children of both sexes, translated from the French
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This tissue overgrowth can be treated with a technique called septal ablation - pioneered by Michael Fifer, MD, of MGH Cardiology - that destroys the excess tissue, a scenario that mimics the damage that happens to heart muscle when its blood supply is cut off.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
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There are five sirens in Orting, one in Sumner, five in Puyallup, four in Fife and two in the unincorporated area between Orting and Sumner.
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Little adornment was on her, except a single piercing at the top of her pointed ear, but what caught Kira's attention was the fife at her waist.
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At the foot of each mast there is a contrivance for securing ropes, called the fife-rail.
Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat
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People were coming into the square from all sides, and down the street we heard the pipes and the fifes and the drums coming.
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John Fife, were found guilty in federal court of transporting illegal aliens, conspiracy and other charges.
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Forget the grey slabs that emerge from your freezer, or the grease-laden battered variety from the chippy; the Fife haddock is a breed apart.
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The old cylindrical ear-piercing fife is an obsolete instrument, being superseded by a small army flute, still, however, called a fife, used with the side drum in the drum and fife band.
Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
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He's becalmed in Fife now, a long way from the rattle of polyhedral dice and the clink of pint glasses that defined our shared youth.
Zornhau: Andy's "Magnetic North"
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Till he the bottom of the brimmer saw. and comes off clearly, sound trumpets, fife and drums, the spectators will applaud him, the [1429] bishop himself (if he belie them not) with his chaplain will stand by and do as much,
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Whereon (laugh not, reader, for it was the fashion of those musical as well as valiant days) up rose that noble old favorite of good Queen Bess, from cornet and sackbut, fife and drum; while
Westward Ho!
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There are three further bedrooms on the second floor, one of which has attractive views north over to Fife.
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High speed catamarans or hydrofoils will whisk up to 150 passengers on the 30-minute journey from Fife to Edinburgh's waterfront every half an hour at peak times.
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Other musical instruments included stringed instruments such as fiddles and harps, and woodwind instruments such as flutes and fifes.
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There was nae mair nonsense till we cam till a station in Fife wi 'an' awfu'-like name.
My Man Sandy
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William Ferman complained that whenever he chose to stay out all night playing the fife in a saloon, his wife would harass him.
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A regiment so equipped, with its drum and fife corps of 12 drummers and 12 fifers, would be greatly enhanced in its aspect for military functions.
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Princess Alexandra was to inherit the title of Duchess of Fife.
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Miranda, and the battery lads to their girls, from whose hands they began to wring wild good-byes as a peal of fifes and drums heralded the oncome of the departing regiment.
Kincaid's Battery
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Nothing fazed him, not even the prospect of the dreaded lip-mangling East Fife 4, Forfar 5 result, and the closest he came to adversity was when his computer crashed halfway through a division's scores and he had to flannel for a few seconds.
BBC's Tim Gudgin calls time with: Airdrie United 11, Gala Fairydean 0 | Rob Bagchi
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Police also spoke to a known criminal in Fife who was said to be willing to kill for money.
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March 17 is an official holiday when the whole island drops everything to tip their pints and dance to fife and drum.
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All apartments are on the upper three floors, giving uninterrupted views from the window walls across the Forth estuary to Fife.
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I capered clumsily into the mob and drew a squad of ghosts trotting with a fife band.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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The priests trained in the bardic arts beat their drums, strummed on their lutes, and played on their fifes to a wild beat and a buoyant tune.
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Heer Maus, hav a scotch *klink glug glug glug* itz a fife hunnerd yeer owl singul malt frum teh heelans ov Scotlan!
Claws - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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On one side was a design of the three Revolutionary War patriots marching forward carrying the flag and playing a fife and drum, while on the reverse was a cowboy riding a horse, tall in the saddle.
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A wave of revolutionary fervour swept across Europe affecting the Fife coalfields powerfully.
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Was the cog loading or unloading off the small Fife port?
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Scottish Coal employs more than 1,000 at opencast mines in Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and Fife, supplying 4.3 million tons of coal a year to the power industry.
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Grangemouth, Fife, experienced sulphur dioxide problems from nearby industry on three days in mid June.
Pollutionwatch: late June's clean hot air
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A politician is a man who undertands government, and it takes a poiltician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead ten or fifeen years.
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John Fife, were found guilty in federal court of transporting illegal aliens, conspiracy and other charges.
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There's the former Brazil player José Ricardo da Silva, better known as China, who scored twice in the 1960 OlympicsAnd stretching things slightly Chris Germani has played for the US Under-17 teamIn the light of this result on Saturday, here's one from 2004: Has there ever been the Saturday night score announcer's all-time dream result: East Fife 5, Forfar 4?
Which teams have had to wear their opponents' kit? | The Knowledge
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Its tradition stretches back to the fifers and drummers stationed with Hudson Valley minutemen during the Revolutionary War.
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Also the axe was fifed up on many a proud oak and beech and maple.
Oldtown Folks
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So we're starting off with Beth Fife, who has been with the Pa Game Commission for 11 years, and is now a full time Wildlife Conservation Officer in Allegheny County, which is in the Pittsburgh area.
Q&A, Beth Fife, Pa Wildlife Conservation Officer
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He was made a freeman of Fife in 1998, adding to the MBE he had received, and was knighted in 1999.
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He had a great longing -- strange enough in that peaceful, sheep-raising neighborhood -- to go into the army; but he and his elder brother were the mainstay of their crippled father, and he could not be spared from the large household until a younger brother could take his place; so that all his fire and military zeal went for the present into martial tunes, and the fife was a safety-valve for his enthusiasm.
A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches
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The effective centre of my Own fife is the Province of Quebec and I would not have it otherwise.
QuebecProblems of Growth
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The lyre (Tamboura) and a kind of fife with a dismal sound, made of the hollow Dhourra stalk, are the only instruments I saw, except the kettle-drum.
Travels in Nubia
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Wax candles covered the table everywhere, and a group of musicians played nearby on ‘fiddles, fifes, trombones, and a drum’ although they are not very talented; in fact, their songs really bother the narrator throughout his meal.
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The Fife coast harbours many insects which are rare elsewhere in Britain.
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Isaac Davis and one of his soldiers were killed instantly by the volley, and four Americans were wounded, including the fifer; the music abruptly stopped.
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“Faith, Miley, thou wouldst make a good little drummer or fifer!” says papa.
The Virginians
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The air came alive with the shrill whistling of the fifes, and the drums began pounding in rhythm with my heart.
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The band is made up of a stringed guitar, drum, and fife.
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Fifes, trumpets, pipes and lutes also accompanied the troops.
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On this occasion it is to Henry the parliamentarian that we are bidding adieu, as he is dislodged from his Central Fife fiefdom by an ungrateful Labour movement.
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School crossing wardens are amply represented, with MBEs going to Margaret Mullen, from Kirkcaldy, Fife, Elizabeth Hollins, from Nuneaton, Warwickshire and Bridget Matley from Blackpool.
New Year honours list recognises unsung heroes
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It was then stationed off Fife Ness to guide ships approaching the firths of Tay and Forth.
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Page 43 place in my regard as the maker of the very best whistles and fifes of chincapin bark of any one I had ever known.
Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life,
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Over the benches lay shirts and gallused trousers, and the chatter and chaff was like many drums and many fifes and many boys and mayhem.
At Swim, Two Boys
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The accused pled the privilege of one who was within the ninth degree of kin and "bluid" to Macduff, some time Earl of Fife, stating that he had gone to the Cross of Macduff, near Newburgh, and "given nine kye and ane colpindach (young cow), and was therefore free of the slaucher committed by him.
Chronicles of Strathearn
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The day was spent in mirththe Lenni-Lenape nation and Jollity the soldiers paradingof the Delaware Valley marching with fife & Drum and Huzzaing as they passd the poles their hats adornd with white blossoms
A Renegade History of the United States
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You reveal yourself fully not when times are flush — but when the flak is heavy, and these so-called tough guys couldn't break a thumbhold from a trembling Barney Fife.
The Ill-Served GET Served.
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When I left Huckleberry I went back to Fife and it didn't matter diddly-squat what you did or if you played well.
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It consisted of thirty-two members, playing exclusively drums and fifes.
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Her sewing room, based in her farm in Fife, which she shares with her fiancé, is a hive of industry.
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A politician is a man who undertands government, and it takes a poiltician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead ten or fifeen years.
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John Fife, were found guilty in federal court of transporting illegal aliens, conspiracy and other charges.
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High speed catamarans or hydrofoils will whisk up to 150 passengers on the 30-minute journey from Fife to Edinburgh's waterfront every half an hour at peak times.
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The Fife coast harbours many insects which are rare elsewhere in Britain.
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KAL online geon. last chaos gold. scions of fate gold. second fife finden dollar.
Biden To Oppose Mukasey For Attorney General
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Willie Wilson then cracked in a shot, which Reid did brilliantly to tip over the bar to deny the Fifers.
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Fife is feeling battered and bruised at the moment.
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The drums sound, the fife plays ‘Yankee Doodle,’ a tune for insulting colonists.
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Melville House was Fife's first mansion styled symmetrically with classical detail.
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A politician is a man who undertands government, and it takes a poiltician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead ten or fifeen years.
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A politician is a man who undertands government, and it takes a poiltician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead ten or fifeen years.
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I could have fifed all day upon an empty stomach and felt satisfied.
Queechy
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he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes
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Airmen leaders will wear the single braided red, yellow or green aiguillette with all uniform combinations; chapel assistants will wear the white aiguillette; drum and bugle or fife and drum will wear the silver or white and navy blue aiguillette; drill team members and special activity teams will wear the black aiguillette.
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An aft to apportion At relief* by the fevered fiatutes mm in force directed to bo ghat* to the families of non-eommifioned office, drummers* fifers* and private s y ferving in the mttkia* between the county at large and the peculiar di/Mfts therein not contri - buting to the county rate* according to the number of menferv - ingfor each infuch militia 9 and to remove certain difficulties in rejpeft to the relief of families affithftituUs* hired men* or w lunteers* ferving tn the militia* — - [May 22, .1795.]
The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh Parliament of Great ...
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At Inverkeithing, Fifeshire, the pillar is surmounted by a unicorn, sejant and collared, supporting a shield whereon is the cross of St Andrew, and below the unicorn are the dials.
The Book of Sun-Dials
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Their fellow Parisian, Scot Bill Gear, is well represented too, along with important pieces by Alan Reynolds and the still underrated Fife-born abstractionist Stephen Gilbert.
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With its huddle of houses around a crescent-shaped beach, Elie, in the East Neuk of Fife, has long been known as one of Scotland's most desirable holiday addresses.
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Call out the fifes, sound the bugles, strike on the drums.
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A politician is a man who undertands government, and it takes a poiltician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead ten or fifeen years.
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Ornaments and musical instruments employed in dances and religious ceremonies do not differ much among the Pueblo Indians; the principal ones being the drum, rattle, notched sticks, a kind of fife, and a turtle-shell rattle.
Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879 Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pa
