Then came the match with foils and this also went to the Indefatigable, making the score nine to two, for this match carried five points for the winner.

I flushed crimson with chagrin, for that he guessed the reason of my diligence with the foils, I could not doubt.

" I nodded gloomily, put up the foils, and returned to my quarters, for I was in no mood for further exercise that morning.

Lawton was never bad with the foils.

They are right in this muchthat their own ingenuity is a faithful representative of that of the mass; but when the cunning of the individual felon is diverse in character from their own, the felon foils them of course.

The tripletsFlavilla, Drusilla, and Sybillaall clothed precisely alike in knee kilts, plastrons, gauntlets and masks, came to attention, saluting their parent with their foils.

The triplets continued to stand in a neat row, the buttons of their foils aligned and resting on the hardwood floor.

Or to see a duel fought, and one slain with two or three thrusts of the foils?

20 Again he sets the poisoned toils, And puss again the labour foils.

Steady, resourceful, dumb Gabriel Oak and clever, fencing Sergeant Troy are delightful foils to each other, and are every inch human.

Keelpins, tronks, quoits, pitching bars, hurling, wrestling, leaping, running, fencing, mustering, swimming, wasters, foils, football, balloon, quintain, &c., and many such, which are the common recreations of the country folks.

I want you for yourselfbut it will be nice to have the foils in the morning, all the same.

Ellis handled the foils of discussion with just the requisite skill to draw out the major, permitting himself to be vanquished, not too easily, but, as it were, inevitably, by the major's incontrovertible arguments.

Small arches; sometimes double-feathered, and according to the number of them in immediate connexion; they are termed tre-foils, quatre-foils, cinque-foils, &c. Dripstone.

These two figures are but foils and adjuncts to the musician in the middle; and the whole interest of his face lies in its concentrated feelingthe very soul of music, as expressed in Mr. Robert Browning's "Abt Vogler," passing through his eyes.

IN THE ALBUM OF CATHERINE ORKNEY Canadia! boast no more the toils Of hunters for the furry spoils; Your whitest ermines are but foils To brighter Catherine Orkney.

As the fencer has his hour of practice with the foils so as to keep his hand in, so women practise with sentimental foils.

As the fencer has his hour of practice with the foils so as to keep his hand in, so women practise with sentimental foils.

The hours of practice with the foils are so long there that they look more like days and nights, and the weapons are dangerous sometimes, as they are not blunted.

Other articles, as the dumb-bells, the Indian club, boxing-gloves, foils, or single-sticks, take up no room, and can be added as his growing taste for their use demands.

There are Schools for learning to use Foils, frequented by those who never design to fight; and this useless way of aiming at the Heart, without design to wound it on either side, is the Play with which I am resolved to divert my self: The Man who pretends to win, I shall use like him who comes into a Fencing-School to pick a Quarrel.

With a bout at foils? LORD ORM.

He fills the stage, and the other charactersnotably the colourless Christian de Neuvilletteare little more than his foils.

And like a ball bandied 'twixt pride and wit, Rather than yield, both sides the prize will quit: Then whilst his foe each gladiator foils, The atheist looking on enjoys the spoils.

His comrades armed themselves to avenge the indignity, and the students, eager for the fray, sallied out to meet them with pistols and fencing-foils, the latter with buttons snapped off and points sharpened.