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  • The so-called farced Glorias were a medieval development.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • Since then these "farced" forms have happily disappeared.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • In the medieval local rites the Sanctus was often "farced" (interpolated with tropes), like the Kyrie and other texts, to fill up the long musical neums.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • He would, with the greatest of ease, before of weighting midhook, by dear home trashold on the raging canal, for othersites of Jorden, (heave a hevy, waterboy!) make one of hissens with a knockonacow and a chow collegions and fire off, gheol ghiornal, foull subustioned mullmud, his farced epistol to the hibruws.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • "However, she said if she were farced to name a successor, there was none whose claims would come before yours."

    Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

  • "However, she said if she were farced to name a successor, there was none whose claims would come before yours."

    Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

  • And such notable sayings are many of our late critics farced withal.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Others there be that fall into the contrary vice by vsing such bombasted wordes, as seeme altogether farced full of winde, being a great deale to high and loftie for the matter, whereof ye may finde too many in all popular rymers.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • ’ It is, to use a word of the time, ‘farced’ with conceits; it needs straining.

    VI. On the Capital Difficulty of Prose 1916

  • The lunch was copious, and consisted, I remember, of all such dishes as are generally considered mischievous and too good for the schoolboy digestion -- lobster mayonnaise, cold game sausages, an immense veal and ham pie farced with eggs and numberless delicious flavours; besides sauces, kickshaws, creams, and sweetmeats.

    The Best British Short Stories of 1922 John Cournos 1915

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