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Flyte   Listen
noun
Flyte, Flite  n.  Strife; dispute; abusive or upbraiding talk, as in fliting; wrangling. (Obs. or Scot. & Prov. Eng.) "The bird of Pallas has also a good "flyte" on the moral side... in his suggestion that the principal effect of the nightingale's song is to make women false to their husbands."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Flyte" Quotes from Famous Books



... mildly suggested that the object might perhaps be attained if those within the fold maintained a more godly walk and conversation, but he was promptly though covertly rebuked by the good Deacon Barker, who reminded the brethren that "it is the Spirit that quickeneth"; Brother Flite, who hadn't any money, thought the Church ought to build a "working-man's chapel," but this idea was promptly and vigorously combated by all men of property in the congregation. By this time the usual closing hour had arrived, and ...
— Romance of California Life • John Habberton



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