 | William Shakespeare - 1883 - 1016 pages
...have been compiled from something that was •o, are the following, spoken by a giant : " Fee, faw, fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman : Be he alive, or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread." Chilil Rowland, it appears, was the youngest son of King Arthur... | |
 | Caricatures and cartoons - 1884 - 320 pages
...from the Legislature any alleviation of their burdens. — 1851. \ THE PROTECTION GIANT. " Fee, Ft, Fo, Fum ! I smell the Blood of an Englishman ; Be he Alive, or be he Dead, I 41 grind his Bones to make my Bread." The Conservative Party being now in Office, and their policy... | |
 | Arthur Louis Keyser - 1886 - 396 pages
...caught the infection, and his little eyes glittered as though he could have said with the ogre, "Fe, Fo, Fum; I smell the blood of an Englishman; be he alive, or be he dead, I'll sell his bones to make my bread." By this I don't wish to convey that Amos was a person of a blood-thirsty... | |
 | William Alexander Clouston - Fairy tales - 1887 - 512 pages
...giant Thondel, who speedily discovers his presence though he does not see him, exclaiming — " Fe, fa, fum ! I smell the blood of an Englishman ; Be he alive, or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make me bread." That our story of Jack and the Gianta is older than the time... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1887 - 588 pages
...have been compiled from something that was so, are the following, spoken hy a giant : " Fee, faw, fmn, I smell the blood of an Englishman : Be he alive, or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread." Child Rowland, il appears, was the youngest son of King Arthur... | |
 | William Alexander Clouston - Fairy tales - 1887 - 510 pages
...Thondel, who speedily discovers his presence though he does not see him, exclaiming — " Fe, fa, fum 1 I smell the blood of an Englishman ; Be he alive, or be he dead, I'll grind hie bones to make me bread." That our story of Jack and the Giants is older than the time... | |
 | William Alexander Clouston - Fairy tales - 1887 - 512 pages
...giant Thondel, who speedily discovers his presence though he does not see him, exclaiming — " Fe, fa, fum ! I smell the blood of an Englishman ; Be he alive, or l>e he dead, I'll grind his bones to make me bread." That our story of Jack and the Giants is older... | |
 | Antiquities - 1888 - 324 pages
...reference 8 by Shakespeare to the well-known lines in the legend of the slaughter of the giant Thundel: Fe, 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. This reference occurs in King Lear (Act iii., Sc. 5), where... | |
 | Edward Walford, George Latimer Apperson - Archaeology - 1888 - 306 pages
...Shakespeare to the well-known lines in the legend of the slaughter of the giant Thundel : Fe, fo, fura, I smell the blood of an Englishman ; Be he alive, or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make me bread. This reference occurs in King Lear (Act iii., Sc. 5), where... | |
 | W. Henry Jones, Lajos Kropf - Folk-lore, Hungarian - 1889 - 560 pages
...was saved. Friis, p. 43.— Cf. " Jack the Giant Killer," where the giant says, "Fa, fe,fi, fo.fnm, I smell the blood of an Englishman ; Be he alive, or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread." Grimm, vol. ii. p. 504. In the northern ballad we are told... | |
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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. 
