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"Too bad he is so demode," testi fies a society lady.

From Time Magazine Archive

He could nullify, or mollify, or qualify, with the best of them; and these, which he termed the three fies, he believed were the great requisites of a Leaplow legislator.

From The Monikins by Cooper, James Fenimore

Seneca and Quintilian are striking and favourable instances of the school door opening into the senate: "Si fortuna volet fies de rhetore consul."

From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas

Item, given to my wife to pay hir servants fies on   the 31 of May 1673, ij dollars.

From Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676 by Fountainhall, John Lauder, Lord