Bussy's invectives against courtly practices (I, i, 84-104) and hypocrisy in high places (III, ii, 25-59), while the "flyting" between him and Monsieur is perhaps the choicest specimen of Elizabethan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference

'flyting' the great hulking lout for his awkwardness, and threatening to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red True Story Book] Reference

She 's warring and flyting frae mornin 'till e'en.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference

“Hold your tongue, ye flyting fools,” said the Doctor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Surgeon's Daughter] Reference

Take off the ring, sweetling, and get thee to thine hunting, for if thou come home empty-handed there will be flyting awaiting thee, or worse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference

No captious old woman flyting and complaining at every mouthful.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daughter of Fife] Reference

"For a flyting?" demanded his sister in a tone which was not at all grave.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time] Reference

"Hold your tongue, ye flyting fools," said the Doctor; "and you, ye idle rascals, if I come out among you.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Surgeon's Daughter] Reference

She was talking to herself, and "flyting on" the patient cows, who now stood chewing the cuds of their breakfast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895] Reference

What wi 'flyting on him, and what wi' laughing at him, there was nae minding ony other body when that Valentine was in the house.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Ronan's Well] Reference

Hands aff is fair play; we maunna heed a bit flyting.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference

“Then sic a flyting as there wad be between them, a’ about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Mortality] Reference

Sudna ye hae come faster up yoursells, instead of flyting at huz?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Mortality] Reference

Given its origin, I’m tempted to think of heckling as a byblow of flyting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tweckling?] Reference

"What is your quarrel about, and for what are ye flyting against the kirk and the minister and the kirkkeepers?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foes] Reference

"There's a frown on the brow o 'the Urie, and his face is hidden from me, and listen to the grumbling and flyting o' the burn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference

What wi’ flyting on him, and what wi’ laughing at him, there was nae minding ony other body when that Valentine was in the house. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saint Ronan's Well] Reference

Hands aff is fair play; we maunna heed a bit flyting. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference

'It's verra weel o' you, Miss Mary, 'replied Andrew pawkily,' to tak the first word o 'flyting; but ye should first ken whether ye're come up to my mark or no.'".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Proverbs of Scotland] Reference

I can stand a fair flyting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution] Reference

Ye tak the first word o 'flyting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Proverbs of Scotland] Reference

There ne'er was a fair word in flyting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Proverbs of Scotland] Reference

There was never a fair word in flyting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collection of Scotch Proverbs] Reference

Some die flyting, and some die fighting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems and Ballads (Third Series) Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III] Reference

Ilk carline was flyting and shaking her pow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference

Ae day he was flyting wi 'anither sodger-lad.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona] Reference

Their fair fallow horses and fare into flyting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference

Ilk carline was flyting and shaking her pow; 15.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bonny Dundee] Reference

So whiles the men flyting the fallow street there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference

40 Unferth, Beowulf’s sometime opponent in the flyting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beowulf] Reference

Beowulf’s sometime opponent in the flyting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere] Reference