What is "fust"

Usage examples of "fust".

And when he turned to face me, and smiled, and I saw he was not Fust at all, having neither the furnace mouth nor pig-sweating skin, the shock made me stumble on the grass.

I was sorely embarrassed, but my relief that he was not Fust more than consoled me.

If I could confuse this pleasant stranger with Fust, then my eyesight must be worse than I thought.

I have never seen the Devil in person unless his name is Fust yet at that moment he held me tight.

My confusion may be forgiven, since I knew already of a Jacob Fust, treasurer to the city council, and had had thoughts of meeting him, given that I might one day require a loan and he, in his position, could help.

I glanced at Fust, who looked down at the floorboards, the old cracks dividing us.

These hints Fust finally took and steered the talk where he wanted it to go.

It was a Fust child, no question: the brow and nose bore the stamp of his.

But Fust, raising an eyebrow at me, then arched it across the table at his daughter, like an arrow flying between us.

I too stood up as if to go, but Fust filling my glass pressed me back into my seat again.

He had, it seemed, come young from Gernsheim and, his father and mother being dead, Fust adopted him and gave him lodging.

A working day was first proposed, so Fust could see the printshop and how his gulden had been spent to furnish it.

I added, pushing the occasion in a happier direction, for though one Mistress Fust I could well live without seeing again, the other, Christina, I had often thought of, willing her to reach an age where I might woo her as her father wished.

When I did hear, and knew it must be Fust, I approached heavy of heart to unlock it, for all that I would see Christina again.

This cheered me while I bowed at the mother and then shook hands with Fust, who afterwards passed Peter to do the same.