fido
Example Sentences
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He said he believed you were bony fido commander of the Bronx, and he is ready to obey your orders.
From Stand By The Union by Bridgman, L. J. (Lewis Jesse)
The allusion is presumably to the Latin translation of the Pastor fido.
From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Greg, Walter W.
How happily their characteristics are struck off in the line— At levisomna canum fido cum pectore corda32.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.
Wal, I’ll just drop down to Goldstone, and, if that boom is bony fido, and growin’, I’ll git in on it.”
From Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher by Gates, Eleanor
But all this writing and counter-writing in no way affected the popularity of the Pastor fido and its successors.
From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Greg, Walter W.
