Fartère Given Quote by Desmond Seward

“This Nicholas anon leet fle a fart As greet as it had been a thonder-dent, That with the strook he was almoost yblent; And…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

“When that Aprille with his shoures sote. The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

“It was a French Christmas; a debonair Christmas full of frolic and folly; a spry, Gallic unctuous Christmas. Henry of France, at last roused…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the…

— Mark Twain

“When the bishop farted we were amused to hear about it. Should the ploughboy find treasure we must be told. But when the ploughboy…

— Kingsley Amis

“So there was splendour and wealth, but no great happiness perchance, behind the tall caned portals of Gaunt House with its smoky coronets and…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“To the top of the tower, to the top of the wall! Now fart away, fart away, fart away all!” Santa cried, and then…

— J.B. O'Neil

“Moreover, he had a peculiar knack, as he walked along the street, of arriving beneath a window just as all sorts of rubbish were…

— Nikolai Gogol

I think some orator commenting upon that fate said that though the winds of heaven might whistle around an Englishman's cottage, the King of…

— John James Ingalls

“They walked away from the sea, Rolandsen in the lead. He kept to the edge of the road, in the snow, to leave room…

— Knut Hamsun

“The more Henry though about the shabby old knickknacks, the forgotten treasures, the more he wondered if his own broken heart might be found…

— Jamie Ford

“A long time ago there lived a king who was famed for his wisdom through all the land. Nothing was hidden from him, and…

— Jacob Grimm