Fell

Fell

“Fell” (from Old Norse fell, fjall, "mountain") is a word used to refer to mountains, or certain types of mountainous landscape, in Scandinavia, the Isle of Man, parts of northern England, and Scotland.

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Famous quotes containing the word fell:

    “I have almost forgot the taste of fears.
    The time has been, my senses would have cooled
    To hear a night-shriek, and my fell of hair
    Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
    As life were in’t. I have supped full with horrors;
    Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts,
    Cannot once start me.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “It was quite an insignificant looking sheet, but no sooner did the American eagle catch sight of it, than he swooned and fell off his perch.”
    —Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)

    “Dominique Ballon: You fell off the sofa, you stupid idiot.
    Inspector Clouseau: I know I fell off the sofa, Madame. There’s no need to tell me—everything I do is carefully planned, Madame.”
    —Blake Edwards (b. 1922)