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Here was one who had foiled his most adroit temptations, and resisted wrong in a way that was simply heroic, first showing something very like vanity and selfishness, and then temper and passion on what seemed but slight provocation.
Romfrey, with a whimsical shrewd cast of the eye at Beauchamp, who stood alert not to be foiled, arrow-like in look and readiness to repeat his home-shot. Mr. Romfrey wanted to hear more of that unintelligible 'You! of Beauchamp's. But Stukely Culbrett intended that the latter should be foiled, and he continued his diversion from the angry subject. 'We'll drop the sacerdotals, he said.
He had gone forth to slay, and had been foiled by shadows; he had come with a tragic, if beautiful, memory haunting him, and that memory had clothed itself in flesh and stood before him, pitiful, solitary, a woman. He had scorned all legend and superstition, and here both were made manifest to him.
Their vigorous resistance foiled the enterprise and Delarey was driven off. Soon, however, the sound of firing on the heights showed that the Northumberland Fusilier posts on each side of the Nek were in action.
It is a pleasure to see the craft of a seducer foiled by the omnipotence of the moral sense. On the other hand, we reckon as a sort of merit the victory of a malefactor over his moral sense, because it is the proof of a certain strength of mind and intellectual propriety. Yet this propriety in vice can never be the source of a perfect pleasure, except when it is humiliated by morality.
Eventually, the climate was to prove an even greater obstacle to the transplantation of the slave-labor system into Kansas. Foiled in their hope of winning the territorial legislature, the free-State settlers in Kansas resolved upon a hazardous course.
At the first, they talked of nothing less than trying me for treason, since the projected arrest of the Polish conspirator and yourself kinswoman of the Dobronowska inscribed in the black book of the Russian and Polish police was foiled on my territory.
In every successive field some of the hounds had run off to the flank, and by this means every attempt of Jack's to turn toward the river, and thus fetch a circuit for home, had been foiled.
It could not afford to offend the British Minister, nor could it, at that juncture, risk the bitter hostility of the clergy, consequently it promised and deferred. There was nothing heard but "To-morrow, please God!" Foiled for the time being in his constructive policy, Borrow turned his attention to one of destruction.
and in truth, Philip had long trembled on his throne before the genius of the man who had foiled Spain's boldest generals and wiliest statesmen. The King, accepting the priest's advice, resolved to fulminate a ban against the Prince, and to set a price upon his head. "It will be well," wrote Philip to Parma, "to offer thirty thousand crowns or so to any one who will deliver him dead or alive.
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