Fell
of Fall
imp. of Fall.
Cruel; barbarous; inhuman; fierce; savage; ravenous.
Eager; earnest; intent.
Gall; anger; melancholy.
A skin or hide of a beast with the wool or hair on; a pelt; -- used chiefly in composition, as woolfell.
A barren or rocky hill.
A wild field; a moor.
To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring down or to the ground; to cut down.
The finer portions of ore which go through the meshes, when the ore is sorted by sifting.
To sew or hem; -- said of seams.
A form of seam joining two pieces of cloth, the edges being folded together and the stitches taken through both thicknesses.
The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.
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Fell Quotations
By that sin fell the angels.
William Shakespeare
My pride fell with my fortunes.
William Shakespeare
Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Helen Keller
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
Marcus Aurelius
I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.
Rodney Dangerfield
Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
Alexander Pope
I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.
Elizabeth Taylor
The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
Benjamin Disraeli
When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
Benjamin Disraeli
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
Benito Mussolini
Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
H. G. Wells
Once I was walking from The Mercer in New York - because otherwise I don't walk anywhere - and this woman paparazzo who was following me fell over a fire hydrant and her whole tooth went through her lip. I leant over her, saying, 'Are you all right?' and she was still taking pictures.
Kate Moss
We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was riding the escalator and I tripped. I fell down the stairs for an hour and a half.
Demetri Martin
As I absorbed life here and understood it better, I just completely fell in love with England.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
Buffalo Bill
But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.
Alicia Keys
I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way.
Ryan Gosling
One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
Billie Holiday
I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.
Stephen Sondheim
I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to.
Geddy Lee
I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
Orson Scott Card
Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it brought home the realization. In two nights 400 people were killed in small town.
Roger Bannister
When I fell into modeling, because I wanted to work in fashion. I wanted to do styling or make-up. I ended getting picked up to be a model instead during my work experience.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren.
Edwin Louis Cole
In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it.
Bruce Springsteen
I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.
Michael Ignatieff
I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.
Lionel Blue
Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since the Fall, God has been working tirelessly for the restoration of mankind. People do not know this brokenhearted aspect of God.
Sun Myung Moon
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Fell Translations
fell in German is fiel, gefallen
fell in Spanish is derribar
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