What is "fergus"

Usage examples of "fergus".

Then Aidan and his baby brother Fergus, who Dennis and Sean had originally thought a little young to take part, him being only ten.

The disgruntled section made a point of muttering their discontent so loudly that at first the question-master asked them to keep the noise abated and, when they took no heed of him, Fergus, the barman, pointed out that the brewers, the owners of the establishment, supported the quiz nights strongly.

The others, such as Lord Fergus of Kingsbay and Lord Macshea of Cantrev Macsheehan, ruled small fiefdoms which were still recovering from the war.

In the cozy room, Fergus stoked the fire, then offered goblets of wine before departing.

She wiped away her last tears of self-pity and flashed Fergus her gutsiest grin.

Abbot Fergus penned in his own hand an addendum to the letter to his parent house, noting that Father Mark had been found dead, murdered by a mad Sassenach, one Uilleam Kawlyer, who now was roaming at large in the habit and shoes of the murdered priest.

Davies was already at the bar where Fergus, biceps bulging, was easing back the beer handle.

And the very fact that his lordship insisted that he remain confined within the locked cage lest a fit of the sorcery-induced madness suddenly come upon him, that during emergences to wash his body and clothes in nearby bums and tiny lochs he be close guarded by sharp-eyed monks and brawny gillies, reassured Abbot Fergus enough of the poor, unfortunate, put-upon and gravely suffering man's good intentions that, upon request, he loaned his charge his razor and his precious bronze scissors that the earl might trim his beard and hair and : thy, cracked, and clawlike toe and fingernails.

The light was good enough now for Fergus to see that he wore the insignia of a Captain, and that his face was ruddy from sun and beer, his eyebrows thick and dark and beetling under the brim of his helmet.

The child Fergus, after a brief, incurious glance at us, had resumed his trials with the bilboquet.

Fergus, ap­parently hardened to the sight of female limbs, ignored me altogether, concentrating grimly on the bilboquet.

We can send Innes back wi' John's boatie, and he can take a message to Fergus to come and join us.

While Mark Anders drank coffee at the wayside store, Fergus MacDonald lay under the hedge at the bottom of a garden ablaze with crimson cannas in orderly beds, and peered through a pair of binoculars down the slope at the Newlands Police Station.

She likely hadn't planned on shipping with a potential murderer when she had agreed to clope with Fergus.

Ferdia boasts loudly of what he will do, Cuchulain apologises for his own confidence in the issue of the combat, and gently banters Fergus, who is a bit of a boaster himself, on the care he had taken to choose the time for the war when king Conor was away, with a modest implication that he himself was a poor substitute for the king.