Read full poem →12.
When a Mammonite mother kills her babe for a burial fee,
And Timour-Mammon grins on a pile of children's bones,
Dictionary Entry
(feudal law) A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. feesimple feefee applicationfee smallfee entrancefee license
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Poetry examples for “fee”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →the Fee-farm Rents.
Sir John Maynard. — The King's Sergeant,
Read full poem →ness ; Serjeant Buffoon ; Commissioner
for sale of the Fee-farm Rents.
Read full poem →and a Commissioner for the sale of the
Fee-farm Rents.
Read full poem →Officer; Lieutenant of the Gentlemen Pen-
sioners' Band^ for which he hath a fee of
5^160 per annum.
Read full poem →of the Monitors in the Commons House ;
and Commissioner of Fee-farm Rents.
Read full poem →Sir W. Heyward. — A Privy -chamber man,
and Commissioner for the sale of the Fee-
farm Rents.
Read full poem →And you [shall] have both land and [hill];
My love shall want nor gold nor fee.
Read full poem →I would go back to darkness and to peace,
But the great western world holds me in fee,
And I may never hope for full release
Read full poem →So God was left to His divinity,
Omnipotent at that most costly fee.