Lexicographical Neighbors of Foyle
Literary usage of Foyle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1874)
"Taken in connexion with the Lower Lough (to which modern map-makers restrict the
name of Lough foyle), the whole expanse of water presented the form of an ..."
2. The History of England from the Accession of James II by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1907)
"The sentinels on the top of the Cathedral saw sails nine miles off in the bay of
Lough foyle. Thirty vessels of different sizes were counted. ..."
3. The History of England from the Accession of James the Second by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1866)
"On the fifteenth of June a gleam of hope appeared. The sentinels on the top of
the Cathedral saw Expedition sails nine miles off in the bay of Lough foyle. ..."
4. The History of England from the Accession of James II by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Hannah More Macaulay Trevelyan (1858)
"Kirke thought it unsafe to make any attempt either by land or by water, on the
lines of the besiegers, and retired to the entrance of Lough foyle, where, ..."
5. The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1871)
"The sentinels on the top of the Cathedral saw sails nine miles off in the bay of
Lough foyle. Thirty vessels of different sizes were counted. ..."
6. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1839)
"The district included between these mountains and Loch foyle, constituting the
western division of the county, is divided by a central tract of high land ..."
7. A Memoir Explanatory of the Chart and Survey of the County of London-Derry by George Vaughan Sampson (1814)
"Coast of the Sea—Flats of Lough foyle. This district has for its soil, near the
ocean, an intermixed silicious and calcareous sand ; this kind of sand is ..."
8. A Treatise on Surveying by Reginald Empson Middleton, Osbert Chadwick, J. du T. Bogle (1911)
"The Lough foyle and Salisbury Plain bases, and ten bases in India, ... Lough foyle
On the Ordnance Survey, Colby's bars were first used in the Base. ..."
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