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  • It is only the stuckuppy sort as consider it rude or fie-fie.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892 Various

  • He has borrowed no supernatural aid; [398] he has laid under contribution no "fie-fie" seasonings; he has sacrificed nothing, or next to nothing, in these best pieces, whatever he may have done elsewhere, to purpose and crotchet.

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

  • The incidents -- sentimental, whimsical, fie-fie -- have no other connection or tendency than the fact that they occur to the

    The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889

  • She was very fond of talking about this gentleman, who had once been her pet chaplain, but was now her bitterest foe; and in telling the story, she had sometimes to whisper to Miss Dunstable, for there were one or two fie-fie little anecdotes about a married lady, not altogether fit for young Mr. Robarts's ears.

    Framley Parsonage Anthony Trollope 1848

  • She was very fond of talking about this gentleman, who had once been her pet chaplain, but was now her bitterest foe; and in telling her story, she had sometimes to whisper to Miss Dunstable, for there were one or two fie-fie little anecdotes about a married lady, not altogether fit for young Mr Robarts’s ears.

    Framley Parsonage 2004

  • "fie-fie!" which her prose work, at any rate, by no means merits -- there has sometimes been a tendency rather to overdo praise of her, not merely in reference to her lyrics, some of which can never be praised too highly, but in reference to these novels.

    The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889

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