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Example sentences for "foeman"

Lexicographically close words:
foe; foedera; foedere; foederis; foedus; foemen; foemina; foeminae; foer; foes
  1. The foeman bids me patient bear his loss, * Ne'er may mine ears accept the ruth he doled!

  2. The shades of heroes past and gone Upon our deeds are looking down; By home and Fatherland we swear The foeman from thy banks to scare.

  3. While through my veins the life is poured, As long as I can hold a sword, No stranger shall our land despoil, No foeman desecrate our soil.

  4. Oh, the glorious cheer of triumph, When the foeman turn'd and fled, Leaving us the field of battle, Strewn with dying and with dead.

  5. And sent them foeman with foeman To shatter the quiet of the skies.

  6. Or he may play the part of trapper with effect by placing a second exposed outpost in rear of the other; a device which may serve to take in the unwary foeman quite as well as that before named.

  7. For when we came aland this morning we found a skiff of the aliens tied to a great spear stuck in the bank of the haven; so that there will be one foeman at least abroad in the island.

  8. But I swear by the Treasure of the Sea that I will cross no blade to-night save with an alien, a foeman of the kindred.

  9. From that living entombment should his foeman in cap and bells yet indirectly summon the force to bend him to the dust, or send him to the hangman's knot?

  10. It was Langben the lofty Jutt, Who had thought his foeman to slay, But the blow fell short of Vidrik; For the good horse bore him away.

  11. Assume a friend's face when a foeman you spy] 30 2.

  12. Yet his experienced foeman knew well that such efforts could not be long sustained.

  13. Sir Nigel, meanwhile, had found a foeman worthy of his steel for his opponent was none other than Sebastian Gomez, the picked lance of the monkish Knights of Santiago, who had won fame in a hundred bloody combats with the Moors of Andalusia.

  14. Aye, Jenkin," said another, "our foeman is under the stole and the vestment as much as under the helmet and plate of proof.

  15. There are three words to speak; WE WILL IT, and what is the foeman but the dream-strong wakened and weak?

  16. The way may be rough, And our footsteps may falter, Though foeman rebuff, The right cannot alter; As upward we climb Each trouble outbraving, More sweet and sublime Is the boon we are craving.

  17. Our standard no foeman can alter, Lo, faith bears us up as on wings.

  18. Peaceful homes and smiling villages dot the broad Northwest where hardly a roof-tree was in place when Crook essayed the task of subjugating the foeman to settlement and civilization.

  19. I dread my brother's anger, when he hears Our foeman asks me for a wife.

  20. He fell; a crushing knee was pressed Upon his form, his foeman towered A moment o'er him, then his breast Received the cruel, plunging knife.

  21. On the appearance of this force, Canute found himself in a difficult situation: to maintain a siege and fight a vigorous foeman at the same time, required forces greater than those at the Dane's command.

  22. But when the fight was over and the foeman was vanquished, nobler qualities ruled the man; he could then be merciful and large of soul.

  23. Of this speaketh Thord Kolbeinson: 'Foeman of robbers!

  24. Thus saith Halfrod the Troublous-skald: 'The foeman of the shrines slew merchants of Jamtaland And men of Vindland in battle As in days of youth had been his wont.

  25. For no foeman has bound thee; no foeman Winning with strokes of the sword such a prize, would so leave it behind him.

  26. By force Sir Bran de Lis brought his foeman to his knees, and ere he might rise he must perforce yield himself captive.

  27. Then he took the steed, and turned him, leaving his foeman afoot, and came gladly and blithely again to the pavilion.

  28. All foemen in pity beweep his woes; * Ah for freke whom the foeman pitieth!

  29. My host with fourfold troops complete, The rover of the night shall meet, And I, O best of saints, will kill Thy foeman and thy prayer fulfil.

  30. Then, ere I string this bended bow, Tell me the tale I long to know, Ere from the cord my arrow fly, And low in death thy foeman lie.

  31. Scarce could each warrior’s eager eye The foeman from the friend descry.

  32. Thy foeman came in wrath and pride, And thee to deadly fight defied.

  33. Soon as the foeman came in view Borne on a car which asses drew, The Vánar chieftain mighty-voiced Shouted in triumph and rejoiced.

  34. He ceased: and mad with wrath and pride The giant champion thus replied: “Come thou to me and thou shalt find A foeman of a different kind.

  35. Nigh to the town our foeman draws: Be prudent, nor reveal the cause.

  36. All arts of war each foeman knew, And trained alike, his bowstring drew.

  37. On to the battle will I lead These heroes of Pulastya’s seed, And thus, O famed for warlike skill, Ráma my wicked foeman kill.

  38. Or if not here those heroes dwell Whose mighty arms their foeman quell, Still other hermits here must be Like Ráma, true and good as he.

  39. Nor let the cunning foeman Despoil your liberty; Yield weapon up to no man, While ye can strike and see, Awake, each gallant yeoman, If still ye would be free!

  40. Then flout full high to their parent sky those circled stars of ours, Where'er the dark-hulled foeman floats, where'er his emblem towers!

  41. They stood in front of the fray for us, And held the foeman at bay for us; And tears should fall Fore'er o'er all Who fell while wearing the gray for us.

  42. The foeman need not frown, They all are powerless now; We gather them here and we lay them down, And tears and prayers are the only crown We bring to wreathe each brow.

  43. The foeman need not dread This gathering of the brave; Without sword or flag, and with soundless tread, We muster once more our deathless dead, Out of each lonely grave.

  44. Chant of knight and chant of bowman, Chant of squire and chant of yeoman: Kent and Sussex feared no foeman In the days of long ago!

  45. Kent and Sussex feared no foeman In the valiant days of old.

  46. But ah, when speaks a loaded breath the double name, Humanity's old Foeman winks agrin.

  47. I would rather that you put it, Monsieur Bertram, that a foeman needs be well mounted to escape me.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foeman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adversary; antagonist; assailant; devil; enemy; foe; opposition