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  • noun Plural form of foeman.

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Examples

  • Englishmen and exaggerates American civilisation, we must bear in mind first that la vulgarité ne se traduit pas, and secondly, that the foes of our foemen are our friends.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • A wall of wood, which alone shall abide unsacked by the foemen;

    A Historian For Our Time 2007

  • A wall of wood, which alone shall abide unsacked by the foemen;

    A Historian For Our Time 2007

  • (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 2008

  • As yet, wars betwixt the two nations, though fierce and frequent, had been conducted on principles of fair hostility, and admitted of those softening shades by which courtesy and the respect for open and generous foemen qualify and mitigate the horrors of war.

    The Talisman 2008

  • (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 2008

  • Sharrkan foregathered with his comrades, he said, Never looked I on the like of this cavalier: he hath one quality I have not yet seen in any and this it is that, when his foemen uncovereth

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Nay, foemen in war, it must be granted, especially when of fair and noble type, have many times ere now proved benefactors to those they have enslaved.

    Oeconomicus 2007

  • But in thy love-making thou hast not bethought thee that keep her to thyself thou mayst not while I am above ground, save thou bewray me, and join thee to my foemen and thine.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • I had deemed that my foemen were far away, and that ye that here are were all friends unto me and unto each other.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

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