1922,Edgar Rice Burroughs,The Chessmen of Mars[2], HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published2010:
Gahan, horrified, saw the latter's head topple from its body, saw the body stagger and fall to the ground. ... The creature that hadfelled its companion was dashing madly in the direction of the hill upon which he was hidden, it dodged one of the workers that sought to seize it. … Then it was that Gahan's eyes chanced to return to the figure of the creature the fugitive hadfelled.
1936,Norman Lindsay,The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page19:
"Even in his most temperate moments he is constantlyfelling people with a hunting-crop."
2010 September 27, Christina Passariello, “Prodos Capital, Samsung Make Final Cut for Ferré”, inWall Street Journal[3], retrieved26 August 2012:
… could make Ferré the first major fashion labelfelled by the economic crisis to come out the other end of restructuring.
This Sunday marks the debut ofWeiner, a documentary that follows former congressman Anthony Weiner in his attempt to overcome a sexting scandal and run for mayor of New York City—only to befelled, somewhat inexplicably, by another sexting scandal.
(sewing) To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.
2006, Colette Wolff,The Art of Manipulating Fabric, page296:
Tofell seam allowances, catch the lining underneath before emerging 1/4" (6mm) ahead, and 1/8" (3mm) to 1/4" (6mm) into the seam allowance.
1886, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr,The Squire of Sandal-Side : A Pastoral Romance[4]:
Every now and then the sea calls some farmer or shepherd, and the restless drop in his veins gives him no peace till he has found his way over the hills andfells to the port of Whitehaven, and gone back to the cradling bosom that rocked his ancestors.
1937, J.R.R. Tolkien,The Hobbit:
The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, While hammers fell like ringing bells, In places deep, where dark things sleep, In hollow halls beneath thefells.
1970, James Herriot,If Only They Could Talk:
I got out and from where I stood, high at the head, I could see all of the strangely formed cleft in the hills, its steep sides grooved and furrowed by countless streams feeding the boisterous Halden Beck which tumbled over its rocky bed far below. Down there, were trees and some cultivated fields, but immediately behind me the wild country came crowding in on the bowl where the farmhouse lay. Halsten Pike, Alstang, Birnside—the hugefells with their barbarous names were very near.
1971, Catherine Cookson,The Dwelling Place:
She didn't know at first why she stepped off the road and climbed the bank on to thefells; it wasn't until she found herself skirting a disused quarry that she realised where she was making for, and when she reached the place she stood and gazed at it. It was a hollow within an outcrop of rock, not large enough to call a cave but deep enough to shelter eight people from the rain, and with room to spare.
So the noble prince proceeded undismayed upfells and screes, along narrow footpaths and ways where they were forced into single file, ledges on cliffs above lairs of water-monsters.
As over Holt and Heath, as thorough Frith andFell;
1948 March and April, O. S. Nock, “Scottish Night Mails of the L.M.S.R.—2”, inRailway Magazine, page77:
The night continued beautifully clear and fine, and as we came into thefell country the outlines of the hills showed up dark against the starlit sky.
1955 April, W. J. Alcock, “Unforgettable Moments”, inRailway Magazine, page271:
I remember the sudden drop in the note of the station bell, as we roar through, perhaps with 16 coaches; sweep up to milepost 9½, and then, with increasing thunder from the exhaust, fairly rush thefells atMilnthorpe at the foot of the climb toGrayrigg, until the steady thunderous beat re-echoes past Mosedale Hall, still at 40 m.p.h.
2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, inRAIL, number969, page57:
And there are few better ways to enjoy the rugged bleakness of thefells than from a nice warm train, especially when the weather's constantly changing as the day slips away.
2023 June 29,Metro, London, page15, column 3:
An artist dubbed the Borrowdale Banksy has created this slate work on a Lake Districtfell after past efforts were vandalised.
And many a serpent offell kind, / With wings before, and stings behind
1862,Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London:
[…] but if it be solitary with the position of an incisor, will it even then bear out Professor Owen's hypothesis, thatThylacoleo, which he infers to have been one of “thefellest and most destructive of predatory beasts,[…]
The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of thefell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.
No words had been exchanged between Upjohn and self on the journey out, but the glimpses I had caught of his face from the corner of the eyes had told me that he was grim and resolute, his supply of the milk of human kindness plainly short by several gallons. No hope, it seemed to me, of turning him from hisfell purpose.
1650,Micheel Sandivogius, translated byJ. F.,A New Light of Alchymie: Taken Out of the Fountaine of Nature, and Manuall Experience[…][5], London: Richard Cotes, page121:
For I have heard that my Enemies havefell into that ſnare which they laid for mee. They which would have taken away my life have loſt their own;[…]
1796, Thomas Bennett,The Life and Remarkable Conversion of T. Bennett, Etc.[Written by Himself.][6], London,→ISBN, page31:
I ſhould havefell overboard, or been killed by the enemy ; for having ſo many things to carry along with me, which I knew not how to uſe[…]
And when it got to ten past I said you must havefell in with company, but I was beginning to get worried.' 'You know I never fall in with company,' he protested irritably. 'I always leave the Royal at ten to, never a minute more nor less.'
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