Use foiled in a sentence
Sentences ending with foiled
- MacFee grimly searched the post and the shore, but he saw by the looks of all that he had been foiled. [11]
- The Queen would not permit return to Rouen--who can tell what tale was told her by one whom she foiled? [11]
Sentences containing foiled two or more times
- They had been out-manoeuvred, beaten, foiled, knew who had foiled them and what they had escaped; congratulated themselves, but had no gratitude to him, and still plotted his destruction. [11]
More example sentences with the word foiled in them
- Within its stern walls Nathaniel Durrett had made a model universe of his own, such as the Deity of the Westminster Confession had no doubt meant his greater one to be if man had not rebelled and foiled him.... [9]
- My numbness began to be penetrated by shooting pains, and I grasped little by little the fulness of my calamity, until I was in the state of wild rebellion of one whom life for the first time has foiled in a supreme desire. [9]
- He had foiled them as to men they wanted; he had defied them--but he had helped them too, when it seemed right to him; he had sided with them once or twice when to do so was perilous to himself. [11]
- So heavy was the surf that now and then the spray of some foiled wave broke on the roof, but she only nodded at that, as though the sea were calling her to come forth, tapping on her rooftree in joyous greeting. [11]
- It is probable that his features or tones betrayed some impatience at having thus been foiled of his purpose, for Mrs. Hopkins thought he looked all the time as if he wanted to get rid of her. [6]
- Noting the slight stir among the gentlemen round him, he knew that his game was foiled, that there was no escape. [11]
- You have foiled me, blindfolded me and all others, these three years past. [11]
- Again and again he would have brought the end, but Lempriere heavily foiled him. [11]
- He had gone forth to slay, and had been foiled by shadows; he had come with a tragic, if beautiful, memory haunting him, and that memory had clothed itself in flesh and stood before him, pitiful, solitary,--a woman. [11]
- We are only foiled by the ill-fitting, insincere work of the builders, who build for a day, and charge for all time. [4]
- Since he had been foiled at Brinkwort's Farm and could not reach Rudyard Byng; since he would be shot the instant he was caught after his escape--if he was caught--he would do something to gall the pride of the verdomde English. [11]
- Foiled, he tore and rent me.... One morning I rode up through the shady canon, fragrant with bay, to the open slopes stained smoky-blue by the wild lilac, where the twisted madrona grows. [9]
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