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Definition of Foyers
1. foyer [n] - See also: foyer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foyers
Literary usage of Foyers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1875)
"foyers et Coulisses ; Histoire anecdotique de tous les Théâtres de Paris : Comédie
Française. Paris, 1874. IN the eventful year of 1871, ..."
2. Poems of Places by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1876)
"I STOOD one morning in summer, On the rude peak opposite Where over the rocky
foyers came down The cataract foaming white. No sigh in the air above me; ..."
3. Black's Picturesque Tourist of Scotland by Adam and Charles Black (Firm), Charles Black (1878)
"Burns has given a graphic description of this fall in rhyme :— " Among the heathy
hills and rugged woods The roaring foyers pours his mossy floods, ..."
4. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical by Francis Hindes Groome (1885)
"foyers House, the property of Fountaine Walker, Esq. of Ness Castle, stands at
the left side of its mouth ; and on the right side, above the steamboat jetty ..."
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