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  • noun Plural form of forayer.

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Examples

  • Wild adventurers they were, forayers and destroyers from the far lands beyond the Sea of Bering, who blasted the new and unknown world with fire and sword and clutched greedily for its wealth of fur and hide.

    NEGORE, THE COWARD 2010

  • Some of the English forayers had discovered and driven off the few sheep which had escaped the first researches of their avarice.

    The Monastery 2008

  • The forayers seized manes, got on with a single leap, dragged booty or captives up after them.

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

  • The forayers seized manes, got on with a single leap, dragged booty or captives up after them.

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1988

  • From such men the Lord Denethor chose his forayers, who crossed the Anduin secretly (how or where, they would not say) to harry the Orcs and other enemies that roamed between the Ephel Dúath and the River.

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

  • The principal band of forayers dragged the prisoners after it -- some were at the stirrup, others behind the saddle, with their arms tied at their backs.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 Various

  • They had done this in order to keep the cattle immediately close to us, and therefore as free from forayers as possible during the night.

    Byeways in Palestine James Finn

  • Eutaw, a sequel to The forayers, or The raid of the dog-days; a tale of the revolution .... [1st ed.]

    The Byrd library 1914

  • The forayers; or, The raid of the dog-days .... [1st ed.]

    The Byrd library 1914

  • Wild adventurers they were, forayers and destroyers from the far lands beyond the Sea of Bering, who blasted the new and unknown world with fire and sword and clutched greedily for its wealth of fur and hide.

    Negore, The Coward 1907

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