Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach Fillip the stars; then let the mutinous winds Strike the proud cedars 'gainst the fiery sun, Murd'ring impossibility, to make What cannot be slight work.
I proceed to take him by the nose, or fillip him on the forehead, that is an assault; that is a blow.
In the nine months before birth an angel teaches it the whole Torah; then he gives it a fillip under the nose, and the soul forgets everything it has learned.
Suddenly I receive a fillip on the nose, "Soul-boy.
He comes, and prescribes, and goes away again, leaving behind him that littlefillip of cheerfulness that the doctor's visit always gives; and another day wears on.
There is doubtless some grain of truth in this statement, as a fillip may have been given to this codification by the publication of the Theodosian Code, which was speedily followed by the codes of the various Teutonic tribes.
Macpherson gave a fillip to collectors of Ossianic lore, and a number of MSS.
A slant came from the south; the singers stood Clapped to the halliards, hauling to a tune, Old as the sea, a fillip to the blood.
And when we three would sit to supper, Jane Would fillip dad till dad began again.
Here the merchant gave a slight fillip to the canvas, as if to demonstrate all the merits of the winter scene.
If any one in Mirgorod gave him a neckerchief or underclothes, he returned thanks; if any one gave him a fillip on the nose, he returned thanks too.
And the expressive melody is of the same essence as the original sighing motto, save with a shift of accent that gives a new fillip of motion.
It lies not in a tune here or there, but in a dual play of responsive phrases at the start, and then a continuous flow of further melody on the fillip of the original rhythm, indefinable of outline in a joyous chanting of bass and treble.
In awesome quiet of unsoothing sounds we feel, over a dual elemental motion, a quick fillip as of sudden lapping wave, while a shadowy air rises slowly in hollow intervals.
One might be persuaded to find here simply an ebullition of rhythmic impulse,--the desire for a special fillip that starts and suggests a stronger energy of motion than the usual conventional pace.
I didn't want to see you the wife of an old dotard you didn't care a fillip for.
I tell you, Mollie, after finding them out, my life would not be worth a fillip in their hands.
Her hair, of a reddish yellow, had faded to a yellowish white, which by a faint fillip of the imagination could be made to seem golden in some lights.
The little spice of difficulty gave a fillip of interest, however; and he remembered how the charming child on the boat had said that she "liked doing difficult things.
Who art thou, to send me to Paradise with a fillip of thine old finger-nail, yet to keep our excellent Sub-Prioress in Purgatory?
She then proceeded, with well-directed fillip of thumb and middle finger, to send the holy Ladies there where, in her judgment, they belonged.
As I reasoned it out, the Turks must be in a bad way, and, unless they got a fillip from Greenmantle, would crumple up before the Russians.
Take that long chair," said Hawkshawe, "and have a sherry and bitters; it will give you a fillip up!
Jackson did not want the fillip up, but he took the sherry and bitters.
Perhaps the fillip which walnuts give to wine suggested it.
But there is something more required to form the intellectual components of a dinner than these instruments to stimulate curiosity and give a fillip to thought.
The excitement of the meeting had waned, the fillip of the unwonted treat had lost its power.
Whether this start gave the Protectionists a fillip or no, they were in great spirits, and Mottisfont was up and down shaking hands all the morning.
This was just what Pelle was waiting for, and then, like the fillip of a spring-board, the heavy boot went toward Max's head!
What she did there gave a new fillip to the Stanton-DeLisle-St. George sensation, though at the same time it put an extinguisher on all discussions: a blow to those retired officers who liked writing to the papers.
I had the devout satisfaction of knowing that my nervous system had received just that fillip which it stood in need of.
Ordinarily I should have resented Richmond emulating Hampstead Heath on a Bank Holiday; but, things being as they were, the position gave my nervous system just that fillipit required.
