fido

Example Sentences

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Opus habet Viatico, ut & fido & facundo Comite, 7.

From The Orbis Pictus by Hoole, Charles

So, the only imaginable resource is, to obtain their friendship, to be their pastor fido, their hero, their Amadis.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various

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.

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.

As Pastor fido he by good fortune rose up again and went on his way.

From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul