All 23 Uses of
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- "Drink, Henry Fray—drink," magnanimously said Jan Coggan, a person who held Saint-Simonian notions of share and share alike where liquor was concerned, as the vessel showed signs of approaching him in its gradual revolution among them.†
Chpt 7-9
- "Their daughter was not at all a pretty chiel at that time," said Henery Fray.†
Chpt 7-9
- While the cup was being examined, the end of Gabriel Oak's flute became visible over his smock-frock pocket, and Henery Fray exclaimed, "Surely, shepherd, I seed you blowing into a great flute by now at Casterbridge?"†
Chpt 7-9
- "Ay, I can mind yer face now, shepherd," said Henery Fray, criticising Gabriel with misty eyes as he entered upon his second tune.†
Chpt 7-9
- Henery Fray was the first to follow.†
Chpt 7-9 *
- A few minutes later, when the remaining ones were on their legs and about to depart, Fray came back again in a hurry.†
Chpt 7-9
- Bathsheba blushed slightly at the sense of being generous in public, and Henery Fray, who had drawn up towards her chair, lifted his eyebrows and fingers to express amazement on a small scale.†
Chpt 10-12
- "Matthew Moon, mem," said Henery Fray, correctingly, from behind her chair, to which point he had edged himself.†
Chpt 10-12
- " 'A's a stammering man, mem," said Henery Fray in an undertone, "and they turned him away because the only time he ever did speak plain he said his soul was his own, and other iniquities, to the squire.†
Chpt 10-12
- Are they satisfactory women?" she inquired softly of Henery Fray.†
Chpt 10-12
- "The new shepherd will want a man under him," suggested Henery Fray, trying to make himself official again by a sideway approach towards her chair.†
Chpt 10-12
- Mr. Fray here drew up his features to the mild degree of melancholy required when the persons involved in the given misfortune do not belong to your own family.†
Chpt 10-12
- The form of Henery Fray advanced to the fire, stamping the snow from his boots when about half-way there.†
Chpt 13-15
- CHAPTER XXI TROUBLES IN THE FOLD—A MESSAGE Gabriel Oak had ceased to feed the Weatherbury flock for about four-and-twenty hours, when on Sunday afternoon the elderly gentlemen Joseph Poorgrass, Matthew Moon, Fray, and half-a-dozen others, came running up to the house of the mistress of the Upper Farm.†
Chpt 19-21
- "—Sheep have broke fence," said Fray.†
Chpt 19-21
- "And they be getting blasted," said Henery Fray.†
Chpt 19-21
- Fray's forehead was wrinkled both perpendicularly and crosswise, after the pattern of a portcullis, expressive of a double despair.†
Chpt 19-21
- "Ay, sure—that's the machine," chimed in Henery Fray, reflectively, with an Oriental indifference to the flight of time.†
Chpt 19-21
- …doleful-bells, were among the quainter objects of the vegetable world in and about Weatherbury at this teeming time; and of the animal, the metamorphosed figures of Mr. Jan Coggan, the master-shearer; the second and third shearers, who travelled in the exercise of their calling, and do not require definition by name; Henery Fray the fourth shearer, Susan Tall's husband the fifth, Joseph Poorgrass the sixth, young Cain Ball as assistant-shearer, and Gabriel Oak as general supervisor.†
Chpt 22-24
- Henery Fray spoke, exhibiting miserable eyes at the same time: "I don't see why a maid should take a husband when she's bold enough to fight her own battles, and don't want a home; for 'tis keeping another woman out.†
Chpt 22-24
- As usual with decided characters, Bathsheba invariably provoked the criticism of individuals like Henery Fray.†
Chpt 22-24
- The bent and hoary man was satisfied, and so apparently was Henery Fray.†
Chpt 22-24
- God send that it mid be a lie, for though Henery Fray and some of 'em do speak against her, she's never been anything but fair to me.†
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(frayed as in: frayed cloth) showing wear with threads beginning to separate or hang loose