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Definition of Foregoers
1. foregoer [n] - See also: foregoer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foregoers
Literary usage of Foregoers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Foundations of England; Or, Twelve Centuries of British History (B.C. 55 by James Henry Ramsay (1898)
"When within a few miles of Dover 'foregoers'* were sent on as usual to arrange
for quarters for the night. These men went about their errand in a ..."
2. The Foundations of England: Or, Twelve Centuries of British History (B.C. 55 by James Henry Ramsay (1898)
"One householder attempting to resist, was struck, and either wounded or killed,
one of the foregoers being immediately felled in return. ..."
3. All's Well that Ends Well by William Shakespeare (1912)
"Honours thrive, When rather from our acts we them derive Than our foregoers.
The mere word's a slave Debauch'd on every tomb, on every grave 145 A lying ..."
4. The Book Collector: a General Survey of the Pursuit and of Those who Have by William Carew Hazlitt, Hector Carsewell Macpherson (1904)
"... were the contemporaries of our immediate foregoers began their literary careers.
Then, again, there are two branches of the later literature: the more ..."
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