fido

Example Sentences

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So, the only imaginable resource is, to obtain their friendship, to be their pastor fido, their hero, their Amadis.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various

Io non mene fido sicuro: I shall take care not to trust him sure.

From Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I by Piozzi, Hester Lynch

The Pastor fido was the object of a violent attack while as yet it circulated in manuscript only.

From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Greg, Walter W.

Wal, I’ll just drop down to Goldstone, and, if that boom is bony fido, and growin’, I’ll git in on it.”

From Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher by Gates, Eleanor

Opus habet Viatico, ut & fido & facundo Comite, 7.

From The Orbis Pictus by Hoole, Charles