"Foe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the soldiers with rifles and the cavalry with the rammers that had been dropped were clustered about the cannon, some prying, some lifting, some pulling, and before the foe could reach them the two pieces of artillery were tipped over and rolled into the side ditches, the Americans scattering the moment the guns were made useless to ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford
... of other nations' deed, And mark their tortuous craft, their jealous greed, Their serpent-wisdom or mere soulless force, Homeward returns my vagrant fealty, Crying, "O England, shouldst thou one day fall, Shatter'd in ruins by some Titan foe, Justice were thenceforth weaker throughout all The world, and Truth less passionately free, And God the ...
— The Poems of William Watson • William Watson
... from childhood with the use of arms. Reflecting that artificial weapons are of little use without a body capable of wielding them, he so trained himself for all possible emergencies that he was both able to run swiftly and also to grapple with his foe so strongly that few could escape from him. Those who entered into any contest with him, when beaten, used to ascribe their defeat to his immense bodily strength, which no ...
— Plutarch's Lives, Volume I (of 4) • Plutarch
... the poor girl, her eyes suffused with tears, "neither friend nor foe will avail to turn him from the way he has resolved to go. He is desperate, and rushes with open eyes upon his ruin. We know the reason of it all. There is but one who could have saved Le Gardeur if she would. She is utterly unworthy of my brother, but I ...
— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby
... the foemen past Ahead of the Victory, A four-decked ship, with a flagless mast, An Anak of the sea. His gaze on the ship Lord Nelson cast: "Oh, oh! my old friend!" quoth he. "Since again we have met, we must all be glad To pay our respects to the Trinidad." So, full on the bow of the giant foe, Our gallant Victory runs; Thro' the dark'ning smoke the thunder broke O'er her deck from ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 • E. Cobham Brewer
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