Lexicographical Neighbors of Foyled
Literary usage of Foyled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"I'ar. dial. FOYLE. (1) Paste, or crust. A common term in old culinary receipts.
(2) To fallow land. Diet. Ruet. foyled. Defiled. ..."
2. The Archaeological Journal by Council, British Archaeological Association, Central Committee (1850)
"... daye of July Anno Dm'i 1612 there appeared a Swanne of the long Squires foyled,
... the Swann nor shew whose marke it was that had foyled the same, ..."
3. Ancient Irish Histories: The Works of Spencer, Campion, Hanmer, and by Edmund Spenser, Meredith Hanmer (1809)
"... attempted the invasion of Britaine, was twice ' foyled, ... forces together,
foyled the ..."
4. The Tragical Reign of Selimus, 1594by Robert Greene by Robert Greene (1908)
"2470 Twice I encountred with him hand to hand, And twice returned foyled and ...
Beating the neuer-foyled ..."
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