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.

He also had foreseen this movement of his enemy, and he succeeded in foiling 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.

Or else they might be the necessary guard, the men-at-arms, who watched for the purpose of foiling a possible attack from some felon neighbor.

And she continued, amused at herself after her maid had withdrawn, strolling about the gymnasium, making passes with her foil at ring, bar, and punching bag.

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

Anyway you may charter it for the large sum of nothing at all, as a reward for foiling a spy.

We have studied foiling under the best masters in the Bowery and Sixth Avenue theatres.

" 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.

After foiling many efforts, the Trojan noted all at once that Jumbo's head was not above Ware's shoulders, but back of the right armpit.

" 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.

Lewisham was not quite clear what course he meant to take in the high enterprise of foiling Lagune, and indeed he was anything but clear about the entire situation.

Harriet S. Adams & Edna C. Squier (Co-authors); 27Sep61; R282406. Tom Swift and his ocean airport; or, Foiling the haargolanders, by Victor Appleton, pseud. of Harriet S. Adams & Edna C. Squier.

Harriet S. Adams & Edna C. Squier (Co-authors); 27Sep61; R282406. Tom Swift and his ocean airport; or, Foiling the haargolanders, by Victor Appleton, pseud. of Harriet S. Adams & Edna C. Squier.

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

As early as 1177 he appointed his youngest son John king of Ireland, and seems to have fully formed the intention of sending him over as a permanent governor or viceroy, a purpose which the misconduct of that youthful Rehoboam, as Giraldus calls him, was chiefly instrumental in foiling.

For instance, I would have the famous and wonderful pictures now foiling and dwarfing one another in our vulgar galleries, distributed over the Western world.

" I obeyed, swimming slowly on, while Otoo swam about me, keeping always between me and the shark, foiling his rushes and encouraging me.