 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 532 pages
...of Shakspeare, may have been compiled from something that was so : they are uttered by a giant:— I smell the blood of an Englishman ; Be he alive, or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread." SCENE VI. A Chamber in a Farm-House^ adjoining the Castle.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 602 pages
...may have been compiled from something that was so : they are uttered by a giant: — " Fee,faw,fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman ; Be he alive, or be he dead, 111 grind his bones to make my bread." 1 Cornwall seems to mean the merit of Edmund ; which, being... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 544 pages
...Shakspeare, may have been compiled from something that was so : they are uttered by a giant: — " Fee, fata, fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman ; Be h,e alive, or he he dead, I'll grind his hones to make my bread." SC. V.] [ACT III SCENE VI. A Chamber in a Farm-House,... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - Fairy tales - 1858 - 444 pages
...that he knew some one was at hand, and thus declared his intentions : — " Fee !— fie !— foh !— fum ! I smell the blood of an Englishman ! Be he alive...— or be he dead — I '11 grind his bones to make my bread ! " "First, catch me," said Jack, and he flung off his coat of darkness and put on his shoes... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Buckland - Fishing - 1859 - 434 pages
...ogre, who, when he smelt the Englishman, pronounced the following anathema against him — "Fefafum; I smell the blood of an Englishman ; Be he alive, or be he dead, PU grind his bones to make my bnvd." Li the place where these bones are stacked were plenty of rats.... | |
 | Annie Keary - 1860 - 240 pages
...behind the parlour screen and jumped out upon Helen in the twilight, saying,— " I am Fee-Fo-Fum, I smell the blood Of an Englishman, Be he alive, or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread." Helenhad always been very frightened at thatvoice and that... | |
 | William Foster Coffin - Canada - 1864 - 308 pages
...as the appetite of the hungry ogre in the nursery tale, who snuffs the wind and mutters — Fe, fi, fo, fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman : Be he alive, or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread. The present is therefore deemed to be an opportune moment to... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Buckland - Animals in literature - 1865 - 398 pages
...ogre, who, when he smelt the Englishman, pronounced the following anathema against him — ' Fe fa fum ; I smell the blood of an Englishman ; Be he alive or be he dead, r II 'grind his bones to make my bread.' In the place where these bones are stacked were plenty of... | |
 | Church work with the poor - 1865 - 848 pages
...above all, " Jack, the Giant Killer," with his great antagonist, thus soliloquising : — " Fe, fa, fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman , Be he alive, or be he dead, I'll grind hie bottes to make me bread;" then we began to feel reading was not such a dull thing after... | |
 | Book - 1866 - 378 pages
...invisible coat, and taking his sword, he went against the giant, who said on his approach : " Fe, fi, fo, fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman ; Be he alive, or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make me bread." " Oh, indeed ! " cried Jack ; " you are a very fine fellow."... | |
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I smell the blood of an Englishman, Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread. 
