"Foeman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... revelled once shrew-mice may feed, And moles make palaces, and bats keep house. And if thou art of spleen so slow to rouse As quit thy score by thieving from a thief And leave him scatheless else, thou art no chief For Tydeus' son, who sees no end of strife But in his own or in his foeman's life." So he. Then Pyrrhos spake: "By that great shade Wherein I stand, which thy false Paris made Who slew my father, think not so to have done With Troy and Priam; for Peleides' son Must slake the sword that cries, and still the ghost Of him that haunts the ingles of this coast, ...
— Helen Redeemed and Other Poems • Maurice Hewlett
... the field went I forth, O my mother The flame of the armlet who guardest,— To dare the cave-dweller, my foeman And I deemed I should smite him in battle. But the brand that is bruited in story It brake in my hand as I held it; And this that should thrust men to slaughter Is thwarted ...
— The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald • Unknown
... minstrel fell, but the foeman's chain Could not bring that proud soul under! The harp he loved ne'er spoke again, For he tore its ...
— Ladies-In-Waiting • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... that gaunt Professor Noting his man; that stark Assessor Of faulty play in the bat's possessor Clapped for his foeman, We who had seen that figure splendid Guarding the stumps so well defended Wept and cheered when by craft was ...
— More Cricket Songs • Norman Gale
... is growing darker; Ere one more day is flown, Bregenz, our foeman's stronghold, Bregenz shall ...
— The New McGuffey Fourth Reader • William H. McGuffey
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