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Example Sentences

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Touch Venison only with your knife, pare it, cross it with 12 scores, cut a piece out, and put it in the furmity soup.

From Early English Meals and Manners by Furnivall, Frederick James

As I went over the water, The water went over me, I heard an old woman crying, Will you buy some furmity?

From The Nursery Rhymes of England by Various

To simper like a furmity kettle: to smile, or look merry about the gills.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis

She pretended to eat a little of the furmity with the leaden spoon offered, and as she did so said blandly to the hag, "You've seen better days?"

From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy, Thomas

When last she had seen him he was sitting in a corduroy jacket, fustian waistcoat and breeches, and tanned leather leggings, with a basin of hot furmity before him.

From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy, Thomas