English citations of feese

  • 1647, Beaumont & Fletcher, The Coxcomb:
    Marry, sweet love, e'en here, lie down; I'll feese thee.
  • 1870, G.M.E.Campbell, Notes and Queries, page 195:
    'Then,' said the fox, 'if you will not let me in, I will get on your house and I will wheeze and I will breese till I feese your house down.' And the fox got on the piggy's house, and he wheezed and he breesed for a long time, but at last he feesed the house down and ate up poor piggy.
  • 1913, Hamilton Drummond, Winds of God, page 78:
    That of itself set gossip flying , for Whitcroft , as he had said , was a talky place : but Dave knew and approved , so the evil hints with the tongue in the cheek never feesed me .
  • 2018, Meriwether Clark, William Lewis, “Clark, October 21, 1804”, in The Journals of Lewis and Clark:
    [a verry Cold night wind hard from the N. E. Some rain in the night which feesed as it fell
  • 2011, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker: Or the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick:
    He was in a most awful feese. All he could say when people came with news, was “Tousand Teyvils;”
  • 2017, Laurence Seeff, Poetic Licence: 40 + Years of Rhyme, Song and Speech, page 85:
    In days of old when nights were cold Laurence and Sara were wed And only we the cousins knew Of sleeping feese to feese in bed.