Read The Thirty-Nine Steps Online
Authors: John Buchan
expect
VERB
here expect means to wait forto expect his farther commands
(
Gulliver’s Travels
by Jonathan Swift)
familiars
NOUN
familiars means spirits or devils who come to someone when they are calledI’ll turn all the lice about thee into familiars
(
Doctor Faustus 1.4
by Christopher Marlowe)
fantods
NOUN
a fantod is a person who fidgets or can’t stop moving nervouslyIt most give me the fantods
(
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain)
farthing
NOUN
a farthing is an old unit of British currency which was worth a quarter of a pennyNot a farthing less. A great many back-payments are included in it, I assure you
. (
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens)
farthingale
NOUN
a hoop worn under a skirt to extend itA bell with an old voice – which I dare say in its time had often said to the house,
Here is the green farthingale
(
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens)
favours
NOUN
here favours is an old word which means ribbonsA group of humble mourners entered the gate: wearing white favours
(
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens)
feigned
VERB
pretend or pretendingnot my feigned page
(
On His Mistress
by John Donne)
fenceNOUN
a fence is someone who receives and sells stolen goodsWhat are you up to? Ill-treating the boys, you covetous, avaricious, in-sa-ti-a-ble
old fence?
(
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens)NOUN
defence or protectionbut honesty hath no fence against superior cunning
(
Gulliver’s Travels
by Jonathan Swift)
fess
ADJ
fess is an old word which means pleased or proudYou’ll be fess enough, my poppet
(
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy)
fettered
ADJ
fettered means bound in chains or chained“You are fettered,” said Scrooge, trembling. “Tell me why?”
(
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens)