Lexicographical Neighbors of Foyling
Literary usage of Foyling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"FQ v. 11. 33; the tread or track of a hunted animal, ' What ? hunt a wife on the
dull foil!', Otway, Venice Preserved, iii. 2 (Pierre) ; foyling, ' Foulee, ..."
2. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1857)
"... trimmed up to two high branches ! as they still trim in cities, "of
foyling" (manuring), "of Annoyances," which consist of "Gals," not girls, but galls, ..."
3. History of Civilization in England by Henry Thomas Buckle (1913)
"... to the foyling and scattering of two principall armies, first, the Marquesse
of New Castle his army; and afterward Prince Rupert's and his together; ..."
4. A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times: Illustrated by Anecdotes by Henry Sampson (1875)
"... only from his foyling such who are not worthy the name of Swordsmen, as also
that he may be without any farther Excuse; I do hereby dare the said Mr. ..."
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