Citations:fizeek

English citations of fizeek

• 1890, “Anglo-American Spelling. Lord of Himself.”, in The Journal of Commercial Education‎^[1], volume 6, Philadelphia Stenographer Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 239, intentionally using non-standard spelling:

  Wun wùd think, tu lùk at hiz splendid fizeek, and reed ov hiz âlmōst daily atendance at dinerz and superz and merymākingz, that Mr. Depew livd a life ov sensūality and exes.

• 1899, Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard, The Philistine (American periodical series, 1850-1900)‎^[2], volume 9, The Society, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 130:

  He is hearty, bronzed, and his white hair and beard quite belie his strong fizeek and boyish spirit.

• 1905 September, The Osteopathic Physician‎^[3], volume 8, number 4, Osteopathic Publishing Company, →OCLC, pages 1–2, eye dialect:

  “ ‘ “I told you so,” says he. “I knowed you'd crumble, but I wasn't expectin' it till you'd starved a little further.”
  “ ‘Says I: “Mr. Bunker, if it was just a question a' my fizeek, them old figgers a' mine, like the star-spangled banner, proudly they'd wave, […]

• 1968, Reginald Ernest Moreau, The Departed Village: Berrick Salome at the Turn of the Century‎^[4], Oxford U.P., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 69:

  ‘My father was a rare thrusty man and was very fizeek; he could shift ninety quarters of wheat [i.e. nine tons] around in a day.’

• 2012 January 1, Jean Ure, Bug-Eyed Monsters (Black Cats)‎^[5], A&C Black, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 50, a child's writing:

  Would our food be suitable for an alien fizeek?
  ('Physique,' wrote Miss Beam. 'Good thinking!')