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Sentences ending with foe

It was only yesterday that he had tried to moderate Olympius' sanguine dreams, and had said to him: "It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe! [10]
He saw the whole danger, and drew up his powerful form as if to prove whether it were an equal match for such a foe. [10]
It was he who had fired the opportune shot that rid me of one foe. [11]
In this world where every thing is deceitful, and no one is outspoken, the man who alone is under the necessity of proclaiming what he considers the truth, is like a warrior who opposes himself without shield or harness to a fully armed foe. [10]
Yet the King was still ill-disposed to the merchant, for while he destroyed Archias's death sentence which had been laid before him for his signature, he said to Philippus: "The money-bag whose life I give you was the friend of my foe. [10]
To receive the vanquished Pompey kindly was to make the victorious Caesar a foe. [10]
He ran suddenly to the centre of the room, the candle still in his hand, and turned to meet his foe. [11]
Bow down before this man, my friends, for never did I see a sharper sword nor a more unwearied arm than his; and such heroic courage deserves honor from the brave, whether shown by friend or foe. [10]
Without waiting for their aid, the daring Peter dashed, sword in hand, into the thickest of the foe. [4]
So I imagine the vengeance, the curse which calls down ruin upon the head of a foe. [10]

Sentences containing foe two or more times

The box she was seeking was among the last and, while handing it to Bias, she muttered: "Oh, yes, certainly--it does one good to destroy a foe, but no less to make her foe happy! [10]
That he was a foe, and a malignant foe, he had no doubt whatever; he had settled the point in his mind long ago; and two letters he had received from Lady Eglington, in which she had said in so many words, "Watch Nahoum! [11]

More example sentences with the word foe in them

I quite understand you; and until I feel that you have good reason once more to respect the maniac who lost you by his own fault, I, who fought you like your most deadly foe, will not even speak the final word. [10]
When Orion tempted you to perjure yourself, did he behave as my friend or as my foe, my bitterest and most implacable enemy? [10]
I wish you would tell him from me that when I am governor, I shall make it a point to discuss the whole matter with him, and that he will find in me no foe of corporations. [9]
Balashev remembered these words, "So long as a single armed foe remains on Russian soil," but some complex feeling restrained him. [2]
I think you will not see the foe in New Jersey. [7]
The father, for whose blessing he longed, and who was to have been gladdened by his advancement, had journeyed far away and must henceforward be the foe of the sovereign to whom he owed his prosperity. [10]
In a little while, if they were not surprised, they would complete a movement, take a hill, turn the flank of the foe, and, if designed supports came up, have the Boers at a deadly disadvantage. [11]
A noble heart which sees itself forced to pity a foe, easily forgives; and was she ever your enemy? [10]
There were times when Jim's nerves were shaken in his struggle against the unseen foe, and he had spoken to her querulously, almost sharply. [11]
But he, too, was soon avenged: the old shipwright hewed down his foe with his heavy axe. [10]
But no foe was seen or heard, and the Hebrews found some tokens of the thirst for vengeance of the sons of the wilderness in their ruined houses, the superb palm-trees felled, and little gardens destroyed. [10]
Charmian did not venture to go there; a visit to Octavianus's former teacher would have been misinterpreted, and it was repugnant to her own delicacy of feeling to hold intercourse at this time with the foe and conqueror of her royal mistress. [10]
And through the varying waste of elements There passed a sail, which caught the opposing wind, Triumphant, as an army in its tents Beholds the foe it, conquering, left behind. [11]
Within the pleasant Vale of Loe Beside the Sea of Var, The Daughter of our ancient foe Dwells where her people are. [11]
This Sovereign must triumph over every foe, even over death--the monster that lay writhing in impotent rage at his feet! [10]
I only want to hear that you do not hate me like a foe and despise me like a dog. [10]
I must submit to have the hated foe, whose blinding was the sole pleasure in my ruined life, look me in the face with insolent joy. [10]
Macrinus repeated this to Caesar with a shrug of his shoulders, but he withheld the remark added by the venerable elder of the ambassadors, that they did not fear a foe who by so vile a deed had incurred the wrath of the gods. [10]
What I swear to by the head of my mother, friend and foe alike must believe; and he who does not, must hold me to be the vilest wretch on earth; my presence can only be an offense to him. [10]
We need gold to bid the foe defiance, to preserve the independence of the throne, the country, and the people. [10]
I had hoped to aid in crushing the hated foe, and now perhaps it was I who had built for him the bridge to victory, to sovereignty, to our destruction. [10]
To distract his thoughts he drove that day to the village of Vorontsovo to see the great balloon Leppich was constructing to destroy the foe, and a trial balloon that was to go up next day. [2]
It was as though one in armour awaited the impact of a heavy, cruel, overwhelming foe, who suddenly disappeared, and the armour fell from the shoulders, and breath came easily once again. [11]
He would put things straight with his foe before he slept; he would do it at any sacrifice to his pride. [11]
Hundreds of times they rushed to our aid just at the right time, and assisted us to hew off the hand of the foe which was already choking us. [10]
The battle swallows them, one after the other, and the foe is yet unyielding, and the ever-remorseless trumpet calls for more and more. [4]
I stood between the trees and the foe, and kept hundreds and thousands of the enemy at bay when they were thirsting for your blood. [5]
Then I saw the ships of the foe describing a wide circle. [10]
How he stood the rigors of that campaign were a mystery to friend and foe alike. [9]
Yet, even before the revel began, she had been forced to acknowledge to herself that the commencement of the end was approaching; for, a few hours after she had so generously rewarded the man, he had deserted to the foe. [10]
That man is the mortal foe of the Egyptians, the bare thought of him stirs my gall. [10]
Ride straight at the foe, and do not canter up and down till you tire the horses! [10]
Wherever he went the enemy shrank before him; the Swedes fled to right and left, or were driven, like dogs, into their own ditch; but as he pushed forward, singly with headlong courage, the foe closed behind and hung upon his rear. [4]
The basement of the building, on which stood the grandest temple ever erected by the Hellenes, presented a smooth and slightly scarped rampart of impregnable strength to the foe. [10]
The sight of the battlefield had seemed unendurable to the gentle nature of Middendorf he had formed a poetical idea of the campaign as an expedition against the hereditary foe. [10]
His eye kindled the battle spirit in every one on whom it fell, and the foe retreated at his mere war-cry. [10]
Macnamara, late of the 7th Hussars, swung his Arab sword as though it were the regulation blade and he in sword practice at Aldershot, and catching the blade of his desert foe, saved his own neck and gave the chance of a fair hand-to-hand combat. [11]
Thus it was that she wrote to Queen Elizabeth, asking that "this arrant foe of France, this churl, conspirator, and reviler of the Sacraments, be rendered unto our hands for well-deserved punishment as warning to all such evil-doers. [11]
Charmian should feel that she (Iras) considered any favour shown to her foe an insult. [10]
Now I know that it was not merely my old deceitful foe, jealousy, which warned me against her. [10]
The first case that I, as King of Upper and Lower Egypt, shall open for trial will be that which this man--who is your foe and my friend--proposes to bring against you. [10]
Lacey well knew that here was a foe worthy of the best steel. [11]
It was said that he had done this by his wife's counsel, and this woman was Ulrich's most dangerous foe. [10]
She had heard that guards had been posted in all parts of the camp, with orders to sound the horn or strike the cymbal at the approach of the foe, until the men had flocked to the spot whence the warning first echoed. [10]
Have you considered that Benjamin, the most implacable and most powerful hater among the Jacobites, will pursue you as his mortal foe with all the fearful means at his command? [10]
In not more than twenty minutes from the time the first shot was fired, the commander and his brave little crew yielded to the foe, and the Dorset's flag was hauled down. [11]
It is more than human to take the stones from the path of the man who became her foe, as she does. [10]
Then Alexas cautiously tested Iras's feelings towards his brother's mortal foe. [10]
He is so terribly strong, and if he drew his sword in anger----" "He dealt his foe one powerful thrust," replied the imperial magistrate with an expressive gesture. [10]
The Emperor was tenderly attached to Heinz Schorlin, and the man who was so kindly disposed to his foe could never be his friend. [10]
But I must tell your Highness that I was no enemy of King Charles, and am no foe to his memory. [11]
Then he again swung the iron, to crush the head of his hated foe. [10]
Our force is superior, yet the foe is pressing unimpeded into the midst of the army. [10]
Immediately after the sun rose, the foe were seen gliding darkly out of the horizon. [11]
After a short struggle, the burgomaster's son, inferior in strength and age to his opponent, lay extended on the ground; but the other lads, who had not ceased shouting, "Glipper, Glipper," seized the young noble, who was kneeling on his vanquished foe. [10]
This is no struggle of might against might; it is the death-stroke given to a wounded and vanquished foe. [10]
Yet the foe still advanced, and the space which separated pursued and pursuers did not increase. [10]
Does a man spend money on a hell's foe, unless he means to give it work to do? [11]
Before a quiet spectator, in the pure, truthful light of Apollo, the foe of all deception, what would this Arachne probably become? [10]
The place was small: friend and foe were crowded upon each other. [11]
With an exultant shout I sprang past my aunt, and in an instant I had my lifelong foe by the throat. [5]
Somebody must stand sentry at the outposts of belief, and it is a sentry's business, I believe, to challenge every one who comes near him, friend or foe. [6]
I will not send even my foe to death without a hearing, especially at this time, which teaches me what it is to await the verdict of one who is more powerful. [10]
Joshua completed his search for the foe and saw on the yellow sands of the valley dark figures moving to and fro. [10]
But she had scarcely recovered her sitting posture when she gasped to the freedman: "Nemesis, who helped, and is to continue to help her to destroy her foe? [10]
At parting, Aristomachus said: "Salute Gyges in my name; tell him I ask his forgiveness, and hope one day either to enjoy his friendship, or, if that cannot be, to meet him as a fair foe on the field of battle. [10]
The servility of Roman poets and authors, who were unwilling frankly to acknowledge the light emanating so brilliantly from the foe of the state and the Imperator, solved it to her disadvantage. [10]
Just as the rifle of his giant foe swung above him, Byng realized that the third Boer was levelling a rifle directly at his breast. [11]
The delicate, maidenly, reserved woman, who was utterly incapable of any loud or rude expression of feeling in ordinary life, would now have rushed to the walls, like Kanau Hasselaer of Haarlem, to fight the foe among the men. [10]
Moses knew this region where he had lived so long as a fugitive; it was only necessary to inform him of the close vicinity of the foe. [10]
He is now pursuing the flying foe. [7]
However, as time pressed, they set aside all useless antagonisms, to unite against the common foe. [10]
If it proved practicable, the rescued ships of the fleet, with others lying in the roadstead of Alexandria, could be conveyed across the isthmus into the Red Sea, and thus saved to Egypt and withdrawn from the foe. [10]
Has ever a poor soldier fallen in my sight, whether friend or foe, and I not felt the pain in my own body, and the grief of his home-mates in my own heart? [5]
They advance rapidly, picking right and left, with military precision, killing the foe and disposing of the dead bodies with the same peck. [4]
Leicester, on his part, no more caught at the meaning of the morning, at the long whisper of enlivened nature, than did his foe. [11]
I, for my part, begin to appreciate the value of frost and snow; for they give the husbandman a little peace, and enable him, for a season, to contemplate his incessant foe subdued. [4]
Hitherto I have only had to fight against men; but this bold, hard, and scornful maiden, who rejects every gentle feeling, is no despicable foe. [10]
If I could only describe, Herr Eysvogel, what it is to dash headlong upon the foe! [10]
When one sets oneself against the Crown one must be sure of one's ground, and fear no foe, however great and high. [11]
The Arab at once recognized his foe of the previous evening; but they soon came to a friendly understanding--Paula confessing her folly in holding a single and kindly-disposed man answerable for the crimes of a whole nation. [10]
And she went on to tell them how things had gone with her at her trial, and how her good Philip's friend and foster-father had suddenly and inexplicably become her bitterest foe. [10]
He forgot the old debt to the foe who saved his life; he forgot everything, except that once again, as of old, Constantine Jopp was fighting him, with long, strong arms trying to bring him to the ground. [11]
The fearless foe of the Turks was troubled by the recruiting officer's mysterious menaces, but his kind heart forbade him to add a new offence to the bitter mortification inflicted upon this man by his daughter. [10]
Only a few of the prisoners had succeeded in controlling themselves; but they, too, shouted irritating words to their fellows, reviled the Egyptians in violent excitement, and shook their clenched fists at the disarmed foe. [10]
The red glare of strife danced before the eyes of the veriest book-worm; fired by the terrible impulse to kill, to subdue, to destroy the foe, they fought desperately and blindly, staking their lives on the issue. [10]
Dyck was broad of shoulder, well set up, muscular, and with a steadier eye than that of his foe. [11]
What any enemy of his work had done was nothing to what might be achieved by the secret foe, who had placed this anodyne within his reach at this the most critical moment of his life. [11]
He, the mightiest of generals, summoned the tempest and the waves, and they swallowed up the foe. [10]
A novel feeling of anger against the foe made him forget his own sorrow. [2]
How fervently he now prayed also to the great Apollo, the foe of darkness and the lord of everything light and pure! [10]
The tall youth, not noticing the disappearance of his foe, waved his bare arm and went on talking incessantly, attracting general attention to himself. [2]
The ex-chief did not fail to note that everything was ready, as if in the midst of war, for defence against a foe. [10]
Only you must not curse him; for my father became your foe through love for me. [10]
If she can not bring herself to this, the apartments which belong to us must be closed against her, as against a dangerous foe. [10]
The operation had not been without pain, but this demonstration from his foe was too much for him. [11]
Because there was no war in their hearts, but peace, and they did fight to defend and not to acquire, they buried their foe with tears and their own with singleness of heart and quiet joy, for that they did rest from their labours. [11]
It had been no passionate glinting spirit of a fearless foe, willing shot for shot, life for life, but lacking physical power. [13]
She was, she must, she would be his foe! [10]
He spoke with more vigour than usual, and he felt his gorge rising, for here was a man trying to injure his political foe through a woman; and Denzil resented it. [11]

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