How To Use Foe In A Sentence

The new technique has been used to identify the sex of foetuses.
Daniel Defoe, The Consoli - dator: or Memoirs and Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon (London, 1705). COSMIC VOYAGES
But on the gender front, the sex ratio among children up to age 6 dropped to 914 girls for each 1,000 boys from 927 a decade ago, showing that female foeticide continues to be a widespread practice because of a traditional preference in some communities for boys. India Passes 1.2 Billion Mark
Her bare feet created a rhythm of their own as she moved all over the floor, lunging and retracting, parrying invisible foes.
Hog waste is a major pollution source, communities surrounding the factories are strangled by a foetid stench and animal rights groups have long complained about the inhumane way pigs are raised and slaughtered.

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Facing off against Daredevil's way coolist foe of the day, Death-Stalker, the team-up had a great moment when the villain grabbed GR's flaming skull and was freaked to find that he wouldn't die. DAREDEVIL #102 Marvel Comics, 1973
A large brain relative to body size is an almost universal foetal characteristic of vertebrates, and certainly of mammals.
But a new study has found foetuses showing a preference for one side over the other usually retain it when after they are born.
And after Vikarna's flight, Satruntapa, unable to repress his ire, began to afflict Partha, that obstructer of foes and achiever of super-human feats, by means of a perfect shower of arrows. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7
One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family. Jonathan Safran Foer
No one knows why a foetus is not automatically rejected by the mother's immune system.
All dilemmas can be resolved, say the anti-abortion lobby, if the starting point is the foetus rather than the woman.
One foe is too many; and a hundred friends too few.
In Calingis eiusdem Indiæ gente quinquennes concipere foeminas, octauum vitæ annum non excedere, et alibi cauda villosa homines nasci pernicitatis eximiæ, alios auribus totos contegi. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Can Bruce figure out a way to stop an unstoppable foe when he can barely get out of bed?
It also has a narrow canal (the urachus) which serves to remove the urine of the foetus; in fact the subsequently formed bladder takes its origin from a dilation of the urachus. The Veterinarian
An increasing number of tests are available for detecting foetal abnormalities.
Between the eighth week of development and birth a human embryo is called a foetus.
Defoe set up Cole for the second equaliser before scoring the winner.
Place the flour, turmeric, cumin, coriander, asafoetida and salt in a bowl.
So great was the general's despatch, that Paul I, at his request, granted the young man a sub-lieutenancy in the Semonowskoi regiment, so that Foedor entered on his duties the very next day after his arrival in St. Petersburg. Celebrated Crimes (Complete)
“Santa Ana” winds, or foehn winds, are hot winds … when one of them starts to blown, his assumption that wind will cool down the UHI gets blown out the window. Parker 2006: An Urban Myth? « Climate Audit
If the anti-abortionist can show that the foetus is a person, then ‘you mustn't kill people’ becomes a good reason not to allow abortion - although it's also, on the face of it, a good reason not to allow capital punishment.
They are a technically reliable threat of last resort to discourage a foe from pressing too hard or threatening national survival.
A report on the effect of spices on digestive enzymes mentioned that freshly prepared 1 per cent emulsion of asafoetida in water affected the activity of pepsin, trypsin and rennin in saliva to a small extent 41.
One enemy [foe] is too many; and a hundred friends too few.
A routine scan revealed abnormalities in the foetus.
This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence? Jonathan Safran Foer
He’s even included little touches that add to a sense of atmosphere, such as Frankish women collecting arrows from the dead bodies of the foes during a break in battle. 09 « October « 2009 « The Manga Curmudgeon
Russie is pursued by cruel foe, He rides away, and suddenly betakes him to his boe, And bends me but about in saddle as be sits, And therewithall amids his race his following foe he hits. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Dietary asafoetida, cumin and onion also significantly enhanced the activity of pancreatic amylase.
There were no differences between the two groups with respect to the foetal cardiotocographic test results, amniotic fluid volume estimation and umbilical artery pulsatility indices.
The Foes were Dissenters, Protestants who did not belong to the Anglican Church, and Daniel's ironic attack on the church landed him a three-day stretch in the pillory.
Asafoetida water may be used in the place of asafoetida powder.
A blast of warm foetid air rose up from the precipitous staircase to greet us.
It has been now stated why superfoetation is not found in some animals at all, why it is found in others which sometimes bring the later embryos to birth and sometimes not, and why some such animals are inclined to sexual intercourse while others are not. On the Generation of Animals
The animal had the character of being, contrary to what his species usually are, exceedingly savage; and he suffered himself to be taken up by me and carried from his foes with a kind of sullenness; but when, being out of the reach of danger, he was put down, he gazed on his deliverer, and then crouched at his feet. The Dog
A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend.
Dr Jatinder Singh from Medicine Department said that every section of the society has to play collective role in checking female foeticide which is a punishable crime. Medical Terrorism -7800 girls are being killed before birth every year in J&K
Alij ver� tam fratres sui et filij, qu鄊 alij maiores inferi鵶 sedent in medio super bancum, et homines c鎡eri post eos in terra deorsum, sed viri � dextris, et foemin� � sinistris. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Caspium, et Persicum sinum nationum atque Gentium Imperatori salutem, et rerum prosperarum foelicissimum incrementum. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
A Paladin's justice a thing from which no foe can escape.
He also carried out one of his very few experiments using tissue culture, demonstrating that poliovirus would multiply in cultured human foetal intestinal and buccal tissues. The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
Female foeticide is one of the primary causes of the decline in child sex ratio.
[…] As Neveletlen and several other media outlets wrote, stem cells were obtained from necrosed, or aborted foetuses. Global Voices in English » Hungary, Ukraine: Illegal Stem Cell Therapy
The thoughtful youth laments the superfoetation of nature. Representative Men
The demand for quarters, seldom refused to a vanquished foe was at once found to be in vain. Red Coats and Rebels - the war for America 1770-1781
In 1955 he also isolated the virus which causes cytomegalic inclusion disease in infants and, after working for five years on these diseases, he was able to show that the human foetus, while it is in the uterus, is particularly susceptible to attack by these viruses and that, if the foetus survives attack by them, the infant is often born with severe damage to its brain which causes mental retardation and cerebral palsy. Thomas H. Weller - Biography
Deus cum ex mero suo beneplacito nonnullos ad vitam aeternam ab omni retro aeternitate elegisset, foedus gratiae cum eis iniit; se nempe liberaturum eos e statu peccati ac miseriae, atque in statum salutis per redemptorem translaturum. The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
Hence, the previous superpower demonologies now appear incongruous, if not ludicrous, when occasionally applied to their nuclear foes.
Caught off guard, she is trapped between two foes who want to remove her from the action and she is completely outmanoeuvred. Times, Sunday Times
Narvaez he described as puffed up by authority, and negligent of precautions against a foe whom he held in contempt. History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a Preliminary View of Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortes
'foederati' or allies of the Empire, paid to fight its battles against Roman and the Teuton
He had cut notches into the wooden surface of the longbow, counting how many foes he had slain with the weapon; so far there were forty-nine marks.
This kid is amazing although he has recently had a sudden dip in form which has concerned me such as his game foe England against Greece in which he misplaced too many passes.
Anyone who reads a broadsheet newspaper will be familiar with the issues covered by Julie Black's recent programme, ‘My Foetus’.
Our swaggering demon is resolute until agile Laksman climbs on his foe's bent thigh to deliver a walloping strike that sends Intorachit reeling.
This meeting with his oldest and fiercest foe seems to have injected adrenaline into his veins. Times, Sunday Times
All foemen in pity beweep his woes; * Ah for freke whom the foeman pitieth! Arabian nights. English
When we see the _helleborus foetidus_ and _helleborus niger_ blowing at Christmas, the _helleborus hyemalis_ in January, and the _helleborus viridis_ as soon as ever it emerges out of the ground, we do not wonder, because they are kindred plants that we expect should keep pace the one with the other; but other congenerous vegetables differ so widely in their time of flowering, that we cannot but admire. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2
Some countries recognise abortion when pregnancy results from rape or incest, or when there is a high probability of foetal impairment.
Mathayus plans to journey to Egypt to get a mystical weapon to help him defeat the evil Sargon, but quickly learns that he must get a different magic gewgaw, the sword of Damocles, in order to kill his foe. DVD Review: Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior (Blu-ray)
To avoid then thefe inconventeneds; and feveral others xxfc may fafl into by oppofing commonly received opinions'* we ought, in what Place or Society foe - vcr we be, to make a Draught or Map of all the opinions in vogue there, and of the place and rank each of them holds there, that we may have all the confideratioii for them which Charity and Truth can, permit* Moral Essays: Contain'd in Several Treatises on Many Important Duties
An added attraction is models and dissected specimens of human body - liver, spleen, kidney, foetus and hip joints - all preserved in formaldehyde solution.
Incidentally it changes its composition considerably between the foetus and the adult.
Using fancy technology, the two foes swap faces, at which point the stars swap roles. Times, Sunday Times
While Harman may rank even worse than Specter or Lincoln on scales of odiousness, Harman's challenger Marcy Winograd is far more progressive than Joe Sestak (who beat Specter) and Bill Halter (Lincoln's surging foe). Norman Solomon: When the Leaders Lead, the People Have Sorrow
Of such a kind are the various monastic cartularies, law-books like Glanvill's, records like the Patent, Close, and Charter Rolls, collections of letters, and modern collections of documents like T. Rymer's Foedera or J.H. Round's Calendar of The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216)
But the prospect of facing their old foes will certainly be a strong incentive. The Sun
Likewise, fighters who feign wounds or injury to lure the enemy within striking range teach their foes to view enemy wounded as a threat, placing all injured soldiers at risk.
O Emir, of a truth, we are in jeopardy from the multitude of the foe who is on the walls. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
To put it crudely, we're bigging up the casualties and inventing a single foe. Times, Sunday Times
Why waste paper? and you can save some money too by going paperless, and it doesn't effect TNR's bottom line to do so (except for the Printers themselves, which I am sure TNR contracts out, unless Foer is manning the Heidleberg right now, and Chait does layout and Cohn the makeready when they are not blogging) The New Republic - All Feed
According to Aristotle, the male semen provides the formative power that shapes the foetus, mentally and physically.
However, as friends and foes alike have pointed out, Charles cannot claim to be an expert in all of his areas of interest.
In ancient Rome, emperors would divine truth by reading the entrails of animals or vanquished foes.
Martis sanguineas quae cohibet manus, quae dat belligeris foedera gentibus et cornu retinet diuite copiam, 10 donetur tenera mitior hostia. et tu, qui facibus legitimis ades, noctem discutiens auspice dextera huc incede gradu marcidus ebrio, praecingens roseo tempora uinculo. Hymeneal
You are currently reading a article at A Fistful of Euros, a blog in the afoe family. Clarke and Dawe: Lending merry-go-round | afoe | A Fistful of Euros | European Opinion
Beholders prefer inaccessible locations that earthbound foes can reach only with difficulty.
The new technique has been used to identify the sex of foetuses.
All political parties must send the right signals - to friend and foe alike. Times, Sunday Times
O afflicter of thy foes, in compensation for all this vast misery wrought by Dhritarashtra's son, thou wilt attain to proportional happiness after having killed thy foes, O great king, O lord of men, the ways of the world are known to thee. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7
A wall of wood, which alone shall abide unsacked by the foemen; A Historian For Our Time
They often choose the foetal position as the most comfortable one when going to sleep. Caring for your Unborn Child
It's all worth doing from the start, no matter what it is: working, fighting, marching and countermarching, plotting and counterplotting, backing your friends and hating your foes, playing big games and giving others a chance to, standing with your hand on the lynch-pin, or pulling your head safe out of the hot-pot. The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
Doctors in India have transplanted light-sensitive cells from the eyes of 14-19 week-old healthy aborted foetuses into the eyes of blind adults suffering from Retinitis Pigmentosa.
I don't want to get into an argument over what technically counts as a zombie, but it's possible that Depp meant the return of the villains from the first film, over shambling hordes of peglegged foes. Hollywood.com - Recent News
It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss. Jonathan Safran Foer
She was curled into a foetal position, her body jerking as fresh spasms of pain hit her.
To facilitate this, a chat function has been implemented that sends readable text to friendly units, and presents an incomprehensible alphanumerical stream to foes.
Dafoe plays a computer mastermind who seeks revenge on his former employer by commandeering a luxury cruise ship.
Owing to the unusual number of showers of stones which had fallen during the year, an inspection had been made of the Sibylline Books, and some oracular verses had been discovered which announced that whenever a foreign foe should carry war into Italy he could be driven out and conquered if the Mater Idaea were brought from Pessinus to Rome. The History of Rome, Vol. IV
Socratico, Cornute, sinu. tune fallere sollers adposita intortos extendit regula mores, et premitur ratione animus vincique laborat artificemque tuo ducit sub pollice vultum. tecum etenim longos memini consumere soles, et tecum primas epulis decerpere noctes. unum opus et requiem pariter disponimus ambo, atque verecunda laxamus seria mensa. non equidem hoc dubites, amborum foedere certo consentire dies et ab uno sidere duci: nostra vel aequali suspendit tempora libra Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
The _folium_ and _uentus_ images of the present line are found together at Prop II ix 33-35 'non sic incerto mutantur flamine Syrtes,/nec folia hiberno tam tremefacta Noto,/quam cito feminea non constat foedus in ira'. The Last Poems of Ovid
Themba also received diagnostic orthopedic equipment, physiotherapy machines, an ultrasound scanner and a foetal cardiograph for its maternity unit. ANC Daily News Briefing
The Romans solved this problem in a typical way: by a foedus, or treaty, which allowed the plebeians to have office-holders of their own, called tribunes of the plebeians.
But it so chanced, that Bello's crafts, one by one meeting the foe, in most cases found the canoes of Vivenza much larger than their own; and manned by more men, with hearts bold as theirs; whence, in the ship - duels that ensued, they were worsted; and the canoes of Vivenza, locking their yard-arms into those of the vanquished, very courteously gallanted them into their coral harbors. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)
But he made no promise to do something special to root out the practice of female foeticide.
In Baghdad friends and foes wear identical uniforms. Times, Sunday Times
Developing foetuses cannot be defined as a ‘race’ in any meaningful sense, and a seriously planned attempt to wipe them out would swiftly exterminate the human race.
But now, when I appeared almost within grasp of my foe, my hopes were suddenly extinguished, and I lost all traces of him more utterly than I had ever done before. Chapter 24
The foetor of decay hung over the town, clogging her throat like putrid dust. The Silicon Mage
Shure she'll spring out like a birrd an 'fear no foe by dint of the two bottles of potheen she has taken an' the couple o 'lads Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-21
Sometimes the war was hot and active; other times it was cold and passive; but the threat of national annihilation by a ruthless and competent foe was ever-present.
We could expect such a fastidious foe of provection to need no napron to eat an ewt. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 3
His indiscreet comments were detailed in a leaked US embassy cable in which he was accused of acting "cockily" by Tatania Gfoeller, the US ambassador to Kyrgyzstan. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
A puny midwife fumbles with exploding plaster wombs, plastic foetuses, rubber birth canals and disintegrating umbilical cords.
Awlfoe … ai wud lurv itz eeben moar ifz its wuzza kitteh instedz uvva puppeh – bikaws mai Audrey kitteh *boops* mai goggie awn hur noes … adn laitlolee shih has strartud to *boop* MIH awn mai noes awlsoetu! Mime cat looks around - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
His newspaper articles criticized friend and foe alike.
A further displacement from the land is suggested in two tiny etchings of the foetuses of an elephant and a monkey, beautifully worked in aquatint.
Sheep not fully grown, the wool fine, the Horns were abought 4 inches long, Celindric, Smooth, black, a little bending backwards and pointed; they rise from the Middle of the foeheard, and a little above the eyes, and appeared to possess all the marks of the Common Sheep as already discribed. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
Needing to finish four places ahead of Paul Foerster and Kevin Burnham, the British pair were unable to overhaul their American rivals.
Lower the fire and add the chilli powder and asafoetida.
During the first three months of pregnancy, the foetus is in a formative stage.
With some, the sense of smelling is so dull, as not to distinguish hyacinths from assafoetida; they would even pass the Small-Pox Hospital, and Maiden-lane, without noticing the knackers; whilst others, detecting instantly the slightest particle of offensive matter, hurry past the apothecaries, and get into an agony of sternutation, at fifty yards from Fribourg's. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 367, April 25, 1829
The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering. Jonathan Safran Foer
Aliam consuetudinem habet gens illa, quòd foeminæ ibi bibunt vinum, et homines non: foeminæ etiam faciunt sibi radi cilia, et supercilia, et barbam, et homines non: et sic de multis alijs vilibus contra naturam sexus eorum. The Journal of Friar Odoric
The new technique has been used to identify the sex of foetuses.
Some foetal malformations cannot be diagnosed until late in pregnancy.
Selkirk’s ordeal is believed to have been the inspiration for Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719.
Welcome to the idiosyncratic world of Boothby Graffoe - the guitarist comic who lulls his audience into a false sense of security before jolting them with well-aimed barbs.
Alcohol during pregnancy can lead to a condition in the baby called foetal alcohol syndrome THE MEDICAL NEWS
These include uterine tone, the shape of the uterus, and the presence and size of the small sac containing the foetus, called the amnionic vesicle. Horsetalk.co.nz Headlines
Its bronze ram could smash enemy ships and armed soldiers could leap aboard a foe's vessel in hand-to-hand combat with spears and swords.
And what they currently find there might best be described as a bordello of indeterminate purpose: everything from shopping tips to a discussion on the deeply important subject of "vibrators: friend or foe? CNET News.com
Anyone can imitate him, in mediocre fashion, by tossing around words like "glabrous" and "foetor. Boing Boing
John Sweeney has attempted a sad little smear against his foe which rebounded in terrible fashion on him.
No man was ever _born_ a drunkard; nor are we born with a natural taste or thirst for alcoholic drinks, any more than we are born with an appetite for aloes, assafoetida, or any other drug or medicine. Select Temperance Tracts
They steadily pushed their foes before them.
The novelty of this book is that it counterposes sociobiology to developmental biology rather than its traditional foe, anti-biological approaches to human sociality.
The three had been lying motionless in the rough grass, curled in foetal positions, hoping to be invisible. Times, Sunday Times
Anglia magnarum foecunda puerpera rerum, siue solum spectes nobile, siue salum; The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Let James rejoice with the Skuttle-Fish, who foils his foe by the effusion of his ink.
She shot him a quick glance as if unsure whether he was friend or foe.
Sit down and I will tell you a tale of magic and faeries, of foes and heroes in the heavens.
Nothing presented itself to my touch, although I felt as if I were stirring the thick, foetid air like a spoon through spoiled batter. NO BODY
At this crisis, Wallace with a band of resolute men, sprang from the tower upon the wall; and it being almost deserted by its late guards, (who had quitted their post to assist in repelling the foe below), he leaped into the midst of the conflict, and the battle became general. The Scottish Chiefs
The children shall not be punished for the father's transgression" (Daniel Defoe). As it refers to the breaking of a statute.
He had no foes other than political ones. The Sun
This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence? Jonathan Safran Foer
The reason for the glaring disparity in sex ratio is female foeticide, which is rampant in society. The Hindu - Front Page
Maybe It's the Schedule The records and strength-of-schedule rank of the Giants' first- and second-half foes: A Study in Second Halves
A Paladin's justice is a thing from which no foe can escape.
He was in a foetal position. The Sun
Using fancy technology, the two foes swap faces, at which point the stars swap roles. Times, Sunday Times
The incident only shows that the Americans find nothing wrong in spying on both friends and foes.
There are enemies, friends, foes, and also potential friends and potential enemies.
In the 11 th century in the Middle East the Shiite sect known as the Assassins would eat hashish before murdering civilian foes.
My nemesis is approaching, my greatest foe.
Uses "foetid," spelling from the wrong branch of English, and I don't know why he lets this fog into the text. Dbqp: visualizing poetics
If a foetus is not human, then it is not protected under the law and the entire abortion debate is moot.
This has prompted voluntary agencies to promote a campaign against female foeticide.
Bile solids were generally not influenced by these spices given as one-time exposure, except ajowan, curcumin, cumin, onion and asafoetida, which exhibited a stimulatory effect.
The Blackfoot is a sworn and determined foe to all white men, and he has often been heard to declare that he would rather hang the scalp of a "pale face" to his girdle, than kill a buffalo to prevent his starving. Townsend Chapter 6
Wherefore one who has the Inftru&ion of a Prince committed ta his charge, ought often to reflett, That the Child, he has care of, every day comes nearer anight, where truth will abandon him; and fo he ought to make hafte to tell him and imprint in his mind, what - foever may be molt neceflary to guide him in thofe dark mills, which ay a kind of neceflity hisCondition will caft about himC Moral Essays: Contain'd in Several Treatises on Many Important Duties
Spinal trap Last week my husband returned from work curled up in the foetal position in the back of a cab. Times, Sunday Times
He retreated to bed, lying in the foetal position for hours before heading off to the woods at the back of his house with his 20-bore shotgun.
The foes are also more elusive: Lumbering zombies are replaced by elusive ghosts that materialise and dematerialise at will.
Story-writers have nearly always been the foes of maps, finding in them a kind of cramping of their mental legs. Journeys to Bagdad
They were bitter foes for many years.
I think I can appeal to friend and foe -- I use the term in a political sense, and I trust I use the word _foe_ in a past sense Fifty Years of Public Service
He built a fort on Pigeon Island on which he perched his telescope; through which he squinted, discovering to unabated delight that his old French foe, Admiral De Grasse, was becalmed along with his naval fleet.
In places where female infanticide was a customary practice, female foeticide has come in as a deadly substitute that is more convenient, less traumatic and equally effective.
And most have the characteristic of Desolate Island Literature works should be Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
Deinde Jugurtha postero die cum Aulo in colloquio verba facit: 'tametsi ipsum cum exercitu fame et ferro clausum tenet, [231] tamen se memorem humanarum rerum, si secum foedus faceret, incolumes omnes sub jugum missurum, [232] praeterea uti diebus decem C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
Several struck him, piercing his armor and numbing his limbs with cold, but the stoic fighter shrugged it off and rushed the foe again.
Karna which is in thy heart, O repressor of foes, I shall dispel when The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1
Efforts were also made to drive him out with filthy and rank-smelling drugs; and, among those which can be mentioned in a printed article, we may name asafoetida, sulphur, squills, etc., which were to be burned under his nose. A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
Close-up of 4-D scan of the near full term foetus drinking the amniotic fluid.
Her latest foe: narrowleaf bittercress, a relatively new invasive species. StarTribune.com rss feed
And yet it's a fine balance, because Vitamin A is also known to be a highly toxic chemical for the foetus.
(After a slight pause) No, there is no citizen approaching the palace; so mount the ancient cedar steps, and view the plains that skirt Ismenus and the fount of Dirce to see the mighty host of foemen. The Phoenissae
Et quanto honore, quanta dignitate, quantáque humanitate aliorum confoederatorum legati accipiuntur, præfatus quoque legatus vester tanta reuerentia, tantáque amplitudine acceptus et collocatus est in porta excelsissima. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe
There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself. Jonathan Safran Foer
Philautus, upbraiding his treacherous friend Euphues for robbing him of his lady's love, delivers himself of the following speech: "Although hitherto Euphues I have shrined thee in my heart for a trusty friend, I will shunne thee hereafter as a trothless foe, and although I cannot see in thee less wit than I was wont, yet do I find less honesty. John Lyly
Up with our banner bright, etc. Empire unsceptred! what foe shall assail thee, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861
What common ground could there possibly be between those who believe life begins at conception and therefore should be protected, and those who believe a foetus is a cluster of disposable cells. Obama sounds like Rowan Williams « Anglican Samizdat
A middle-class Midwesterner, he was weaned on Daniel Defoe and raised on hunting, hiking, and taxidermy.
Foedera.] 69 Sensit vetus regnandi, falsos in amore, odia non fingere. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The availability of the most modern scientific technique to determine the sex of the foetus has resulted in large-scale female foeticide.
After all, as a conservative of fairly recent vintage, I've seen how easy it is for liberals, assisted by a compliant press, to cast ideological foes as moral reprobates and thus avoid engaging their ideas.
Beholding that chastiser of foes made steedless and driverless, The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
You fight well on the plains of Adventuredom, but since your quest began, huge numbers of adventure foes have risen.
Shown above is the roadside daylily, hemerocallis fulva, in the midst of feather reed grass, calamagrostis ‘Karl Foerester’. June 2008 Bloom Day « Fairegarden
Although the muscular Frenchman never fought ancient foes of the tricolour, the athletic Blanc peacefully presides over a diving operation at one of the remotest outposts of the French empire.
One enemy [foe] is too many; and a hundred friends too few.
With writing, we have second chances. Jonathan Safran Foer
And dye my cane-spear’s joint in blood by wound of foe bespit: The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Here, on the 23d of June, 1314, was posted the Scottish army, awaiting the coming of the foe, the camp-followers, cart-drivers, and other useless material of the army being sent back behind a hill, -- afterwards known as the gillies 'or servants' hill, -- that they might be out of the way. Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality
Walcott is a prime contender to help the team emerge from the foetid swamp of their recent displays. Still glad you left Theo Walcott behind then Mr Capello?
Not to detract from the Zelda experience were the enemies and foes along the way.
In true gangster fashion, our hero plans a classic double-cross, but ends up underestimating at least one of his foes.
The aroma of asafoetida is due to a complex mixture of sulfur compounds, a dozen identical with volatiles in the onion family, and a number of less common di-, tri-, and tetrasulfides. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
A foetus is conceived, gestated and nourished only by its mother - the father is locked out.
Leaves are quite different from H. foetidus, having three large, spined leaflets.
[4709] Hostius quidam specula fecit, et ita disposuit, ut quum virum ipse pateretur, aversus omnes admissarii motus in speculo videret, ac deinde falsa magnitudine ipsius membri tanquam vera gauderet, simul virum et foeminam passus, quod dictu foedum et abominandum. Anatomy of Melancholy
His account of Defoe's popular success is a clue to his own writerly ambitions.
The assassin leaped up high into the night sky with his right foot extended towards his foe on the way down - truly an incapacitating blow if it connected with flesh.
It is why the wounded who leave the field on stretchers invariably receive consoling applause from all quarters, friend and foe. Times, Sunday Times
Now, this seems to me would be the natural way of talking for both foes and friends.

How To Use Foe In A Sentence

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