And Cynthia, in her fragile appealing prettiness, was a delicious foil, a perfect complement to the picture.

They were to come in this order: Standing broad jump, running broad jump, high jump, foil match, revolver contest and boxing match.

"Lend me your foil a moment, Lieutenant Stewart.

Almost before the ring of the first parade had died away, Langlade's foil was flying through the air, and Allen was smiling blandly into his astonished face.

Will you try again?" Langlade pressed his lips together, and without replying, picked up his foil.

I trust you will profit by the lesson, Lieutenant Stewart," and he handed me back my foil, smiled full into my eyes, and walked away.

My fingers would have broken in an instant more, had I not let go the foil.

Under his nephew, Sir John, Newstead is said to have been besieged and taken; but the knight escaped, in the words of the poetnever a Radical at hearta "protecting genius, For nobler combats here reserved his life, To lead the band where godlike Falkland foil.

He evidently wished to show that in argument he was good at fence, and could handle a theologian as skilfully as a foil.

It was a chased gold ring, with a bright emerald, which last had a red foil, in some lights giving it a purple gleam, and inside was engraven "Elegit," much defaced, but that his sister could not see; therefore he could not comprehend her vehement injunctions concerning it.

"There are a hundred thousand veteran warriors in the service of Arjásp in the fort, with abundance of supplies of every kind, and streams of pure water, so that nothing is wanted to foil an enemy.

" She lifted her dark and very beautiful eyes to her stony parent, then they dropped, and she began tracing figures and arabesques on the polished floor with the point of her foil.

The velvet-eyed descendant of Eve shot a fearful glance at him and continued, still casually tracing invisible arabesques with her foil's point.

" Her lower lip trembled; she steadied it between her teeth, gazed miserably at the floor, and beat a desolate tattoo on it with the tip of her foil.

And she continued, amused at herself after her maid had withdrawn, strolling about the gymnasium, making passes with her foil at ring, bar, and punching bag.

And as she strolled about, swishing her foil, she mused aloud at her ease: "What an extraordinary and horrid machine!...

Some deep hurt, Beyond the sight, would ever foil his strength, And make bold effort perilous to life.

He doth not strive to make nature monstrous; she is often seen in the same scene with him, but neither on stilts nor crutches; and for his voice, 'tis not lower than the prompter, nor louder than the foil or target.

" Was it a foreboding of what was to happen that caused him to add: "We may not succeed in our first attempt; some little neglect or accident may foil our present efforts, but the present enterprise will result in gathering stores of experience which will make the next effort certain.

" His convictions "do not in broad rumour lie," nor are they "set off to the world in the glistering foil" of fashion; but "live and breathe aloft in those pure eyes, and perfect judgment of all-seeing time.

If you desire to twine the threefold chord of color, as Mr. Ruskin calls it, I know of no lovelier foil for the lobelia than the white orchis, which haunts the same marshy spots.

The jet-black Africans know that gold never looks so well as on the foil of their dark skins.

Atmospheric vapor was condensed upon a vessel coated with tin foil, filled with ice, carefully insulated, and connected with a very sensitive electrometer.

The art of the foil.

I will tell you the name of this lay it is called Goat-leaf in English, and Chevre-foil in French.